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CLBTH Spring 2016 1 It Is Now Halfway Into Our Term As Co- Chairs Spring 2016 Vol. 30:1 http://www.clgbthistory.org months that followed; Cookie will be IN THIS ISSUE matching up new pairs in the months leading up to the AHA next January so stay tuned for Co-Chairs’ Column 1 details on that front. Call for Papers 2 Prize Winners 3 The AHA in Atlanta was a great Members’ Announcements 4 Book Reviews 5 success, if we do say so ourselves. We sponsored or co-sponsored ten sessions, Reviews in this issue many within our special “Queer Migrations” Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin 5 track, which echoed the overall theme of the Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia 7 conference. Amanda also chaired an Jim Downs, Stand by Me 9 informative session on publishing in queer Michael Helquist, Marie Equi 11 history (featuring book and journal editors) Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do 13 and Nick participated in one exploring the Clare Sears, Arresting Dress 14 outcome of the report by the Task Force on Victor Uribe-Uran, Fatal Love 17 the status of LGBTQ historians. That report outlined a number of areas of concern among Committee on LGBT History Co-chairs: Amanda Littauer and Nick Syrett queer historians, the most significant of Book Review Editor: Dan Royles which was that jobs for those focusing on Newsletter Editor: April Haynes queer history are few and far between. Secondarily respondents reported on a variety of others issues: discrimination on CO-CHAIRS’ COLUMN campus and among colleagues; lack of Spring 2016 support for queer history classes and/or expectations that simply being queer It is now halfway into our term as co- qualified one to teach such a course; as well chairs, and the time has already flown by. As as difficulties with negative/prejudiced ever, CLGBTH board members continue to student evaluations and their effect upon help us in all that we do on behalf of the tenure cases. The session was profiled in Committee, and members have recently Perspectives, the AHA magazine. spearheaded a number of efforts themselves. Chief among these was the new mentoring The first and most significant outcome program begun by Cookie Woolner and now of that report is that the AHA has now former board member Alex Warner. Many appointed a Committee on LGBTQ History pairs of mentors and mentees met up at the and Historians. This committee, like the most recent AHA or got in touch in the Committee on Minority Historians or the CLBTH Spring 2016 1 Committee on Women Historians, will FAIR Act, which mandates the teaching of the advocate for LGBTQ-identified historians LGBT past in history and social science within the AHA and the profession. It can also curricula. Don once again testified alongside work alongside the CLGBTH to cosponsor other LGBT advocates before the panels and events at the AHA. The new Instructional Quality Commission in committee’s membership will be appointed Sacramento, which itself will advise the state by the AHA itself and is currently composed board of education this month. While the of Susan Ferentinos (public history final decision will not be announced until consultant) as chair, Wallace Best July, the IQC approved nearly all of the (Princeton), Leah DeVun (Rutgers), James recommendations made by the coalition Green (Brown), and Leisa D. Meyer (William advocating for LGBT history/social science and Mary). We are excited that the AHA has inclusion. listened to the recommendations of the Task Force (itself established partially at the We are now hard at work finalizing urging of the CLGBTH) and we look forward the program for the AHA in Denver next year to working with the new committee to better (which will include a tour of Colorado’s LGBT the climate for queer historians in our Archives at the Denver Public Library), profession and queer history on our planning for mentoring at that meeting, and campuses. maintaining our newly revamped website. Board members have also been developing Also at the AHA, we were delighted to an online database of queer history archives; award a number of prizes, details of which working to solidify relationships with other can be found in the next column and on our scholarly organizations in the hope that we website. In brief, Emily Skidmore was might co-sponsor sessions at their annual awarded the Audre Lorde Prize for best meetings; and there is now talk about a article, with honorable mentions going to possible CLGBTH conference unto itself. Stay Alison Lefkovitz and Christopher Phelps. The tuned for details in the months to come. In Gregory Sprague Prize for best the meantime, enjoy your summer! article/chapter/paper by a graduate student was awarded to Abram Lewis, with Nick & Amanda honorable mention going to Alessio Ponzio. Finally, the Allan Bérubé Prize for best public history project was awarded to Jennifer Call for Papers Tyburczy, and honorable mention to Joshua Burford. Thanks to prize committee members James Green, Stephen Vider, and Chelsea del Long Beach Indie Film, Media and Music Rio (Lorde and Sprague) and Amy Sueyoshi, Conference Mark Bowman, and Victor Salvo (Bérubé) for www.longbeachindie.com their hard work. We will announce calls for August 31-September 4, 2016 the 2017 John Boswell (book) and Joan (Deadline May 6, 2016) Nestle (undergraduate paper) prizes later this summer. The Long Beach Indie International Film, Media, and Music Festival is looking for In other news, former CLGBTH Co- scholars, to bring their intellect and energy to Chair Don Romesburg continued work begun our 2016 Film, Media, and Music Conference. during his tenure as co-chair on California’s CLBTH Spring 2016 2 We invite individual papers and full panels took Kerwineo’s supposed sexual and social representing any topic (e.g. theory, deviance for granted. The essay, which production, history, criticism, preservation, appeared in a special GLQ issue on the etc.) related to film, television, music, mass Midwest, makes a major contribution in communication, digital media, and/or the queer and trans history, not only in revealing entertainment industry broadly defined. stories and lives beyond big cities, but in encouraging scholars to reconsider how the We are also issuing a special call for papers geography of ideas shapes what Regina interrogating and/or celebrating the theme: Kunzel has called the “uneven” history of “Gender, Race and the Entertainment sexuality and gender in the twentieth century Industry.” U.S. HONORABLE MENTION: Alison Lefkovitz, Prize winners “‘The Peculiar Anomaly’: Same-Sex Infidelity in Postwar Divorce Courts.” Law and History Review. Audre Lorde Prize (for best article in LGBTQ History in 2014 or 2015): HONORABLE MENTION: Christopher Phelps, “The Closet in the Party: The Young Socialist WINNER: Emily Skidmore, "Ralph Kerwineo's Alliance, the Socialist Workers Party, and Queer Body: Narrating the Scales of Social Homosexuality, 1962 – 1970” Labor: Studies Membership in the Early Twentieth Century." in Working-Class History of the Americas. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20, no. 1-2 (2014): 141-166. Gregory Sprague Prize (for best article/ dissertation chapter/book chapter/paper Emily Skidmore’s highly original, well- written by a graduate student in 2014 or written, and nuanced article examines the life 2015): and media portrayal of Ralph Kerwineo, a Wisconsin man (named Cora Anderson at WINNER: Abram Lewis, “We Are Certain of birth) who was put on trial for disorderly Our Own Insanity”: Anti-psychiatry and the conduct when his “true sex” was discovered Gay Liberation Movement, 1968–1980.” in the 1910s. Skidmore sensitively examines Journal of the History of Sexuality, 25, No. 1 the intertwined stakes of Kerwineo’s queer (January 2016): 83-113. embodiment, his marriage, and his racial identification (although of African American This essay examines LGBT activism and Native American descent, he claimed surrounding the American Psychiatric alternately to be Spanish or Bolivian) Association’s declassification of exploring more broadly how conceptions of homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973. citizenship shaped perceptions and practices While this decision has been celebrated as a of masculinity and the possibilities of critical victory for LGBT rights, Lewis details everyday life. Most uniquely, Skidmore a significantly more complex narrative. The carefully compares discussion of Kerwineo in declassification movement, strongly rooted in both the local and national press—revealing homophile politics, found opposition among how local discourses stressing Kerwineo’s progressive gays and lesbians who productivity clashed with coverage in larger celebrated madness instead. Linking newspapers like the Washington Post, which deviance and insanity with non-normative CLBTH Spring 2016 3 sexualities empowered a rejection of knowledge rather than silencing queer minority identity politics and a profession creativity, in its bold display of how queer encouraging assimilation into an oppressive art, despite tremendous opposition, has society. Reading gay liberationist, lesbian refused to remain in the closet. feminist, and French intellectual texts, the author reveals this parallel movement as a HONORABLE MENTION: Publicly Identified: significant moment of coalitional politics. Coming Out Activist in the Queen City LGBT activists built upon and joined with Levine Museum of the New South | 2014 to feminist, antiracist, anticapitalist, and 2015 disability rights activists to celebrate Curated by Joshua Burford disorder as a site of political possibility. Lewis supports this intervention in queer Publicly Identified chronicles the history of history with insightful analysis of the the LGBT community of Charlotte, NC from implications of the declassification campaign, the late 1940s to the 2010s. Joshua Burford arguing that the subsequent revision of the involved community organizations and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental initiated an oral history project to create an Disorders aided the psychiatric profession in interactive timeline with an accompanying reasserting their scientific authority and online presence. The exhibit boosted expanding diagnoses of gender and sexual museum attendance by 16% and initiated the deviance.
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