Reports from AHA and Oral History Association meetings

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Brian J. Distelberg

As part of the Committee’s expanding online presence, we are encouraging participants in panels and conferences on LGBTQ history to prepare and share online short reports for those unable to attend. You’ll be able to find these reports in the Resources menu above, on the Conference Reports page.

Today, I’ve posted the first fruits of these efforts:

Wesley Chenault and Ian Lekus on the plenary session “Reclaiming Our Stories: A Conversation With Organizers of LGBT Community-Based Oral History Projects” at last October’s Oral History Association meeting,
Lucinda Grinnell on “Lesbian and Feminist Activisms in the Americas” from the AHA, and
Leila J. Rupp on “Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on the History of Gay and Lesbian Organizing,” also from the AHA.

Many thanks to these contributors! I encourage you to have a look at their reports and continue the conversation in the comments.

If you’re participating in a panel or conference on LGTBQ history, please consider reporting on it. Contact me or Ian with any questions.

Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on the History of Gay and Lesbian Organizing

Posted on February 13, 2011 by CLGBTH

AHA Annual Meeting 2011

AHA Annual Meeting
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Report by Leila J. Rupp

This session offered three papers on different aspects of organizing around same-sex sexuality before the emergence of the contemporary gay liberation movement. Continue reading →

Lesbian and Feminist Activisms in the Americas: Contested Notions of Solidarity and Citizenship in the Neo-liberal Reagan Era

Posted on February 13, 2011 by CLGBTH

AHA Annual Meeting
Friday, January 7, 2011

Report by Lucinda Grinnell

This panel focused on lesbian and feminist activism and transnational organizing in the waning years of the Cold War. This was a period when the lesbian and feminist movements were engaged in complex ideological, strategic, and tactical battles about the direction and the focus of the movement in the United States, and when lesbian and gay activists were initiating political battles in Latin America in the context of authoritarian regimes as was the case in Mexico or within liberation struggles as was the case in Nicaragua.

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