DOCSLIB.ORG

Equality USDA News & Notes

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

NEWS AND NOTES FROM EQUALITY USDA The employee resource group for LGBTQ+ employees and retirees at USDA Message from the President Hello Equality USDA members and friends, I hope the start of fall and a new fiscal year finds you in good spirits. During the month of October, we ob- serve LGBTQ+ history month and celebrate those icons and historic figures who bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice, one act at a time. You can find more info and resources on LGBTQ+ history in this newsletter. We’ve had a recent change on the Executive Board of Equality USDA. Partnership Liaison Tim Sheehan resigned his position over the summer. Randi Johnson has been appointed by the Executive Board to serve as the Partnership Liaison. Randi ran for Office in Equality USDA last fall and lost by a narrow margin. She is Director of the Global Change Division at the Na- tional Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) in USDA. She’s served on the board of the non -profit Transgender Education Association of greater Washington, D.C. (TGEA) for the past 6 years. We are happy to welcome Randi to the Equality USDA Board!! Photo above: Randi Johnson, Partnership Liaison The Executive Board is finalizing the updated Bylaws for a membership vote in December. The updated By- laws were reviewed by a small group of members; we are now addressing their comments. In addition to working on the Bylaws, the Board drafted a Strategic Plan and annual Business Plan. We’re also working on updating our communications platforms, including our website and social media. We look forward to shar- ing all of this with you soon. The Executive Board is also establishing committees focused on Community Outreach and Engagement and coordinating the annual Pride Observance. If you have an interest in one of these committees, or an initia- tive you would like to suggest, contact the Equality USDA Executive Board at [email protected]. Coming soon to the newsletter- Member's Corner! A page devoted to our members to voice personal sto- ries, why they advocate for LGBTQ+ equality, and/or initiatives they support from Equality USDA. Write us at [email protected] to share your story or event. To all the brave trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming federal employees and family members - We see you. We are with you. You are not alone. You cannot be erased. We love you. We are family. Meghan Walter Equality USDA President https://www.facebook.com/EqualityUSDA/ 2 Equality USDA Partnership Events USDA employees attend the 2018 Out & Equal Workplace Summit USDA employees joined 6,000 LGBTQ+ professionals in Seattle, Washington October 1-4 to share strategies and best practices to create workplaces which are inclusive of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. NRCS, APHIS, FAS, FSIS, and the Forest Service were represented at the Summit. Other federal agencies in attendance include EPA, VA, CIA, NSA, FBI, Peace Corps, NASA, U.S. Patent and Trade Office, and the Department of Defense. Thanks to APHIS for providing the funding for an outreach and recruitment booth at the Summit. Special Emphasis Program Managers (SEPMs) and Equality USDA members partnered on staffing the booth. We had so many great conversations with LGBTQ+ professionals and job seekers at the Summit who were ex- cited and amazed to see USDA there! And we learned from each other other—NRCS Oregon Soil Scientist Gabby Coughlin taught us that the diversity in the soil below our feet is as important as the diversity we cultivate in our workplaces. As part of the Summit, Equality USDA Board members Meghan Walter, Kimberly Kelley, and Jeremy Wood delivered the Government Sector Leadership Day. The half-day session focused on generational diversity in LGBTQ+ spaces and included a panel with leaders of federal employee resource groups. Photo above: Check out all the cool swag at our outreach and recruitment booth at the Out & Equal Summit and LGBTQ career fair!! Most popular items— • ”Your customer, Your coworker” posters • Mighty Mini Microbe soil health coloring books • LGBT Recruitment packet Photo above: Jeremy Wood, Equality USDA Communi- cations Director, proudly welcomes visitors to the USDA booth. The blue, pink , and white flag is the trans Pride flag; the pink, purple and blue flag is the bisexual Pride flag. We received a lot of questions and compliments on our Pride flags—great conversation starters! Photo above: Summit attendees are excited to talk with Equality USDA Vice President Kimberly Kelley and LGBTQ+ SEPM Gabriella Coughlin at the booth. 3 Equality USDA Partnership Events Equality USDA sponsored the Queer Farmer Convergence in Decorah, Iowa The inaugural Queer Farmer Convergence was September 29—October 1, hosted by Humble Hands Har- vest, a small vegetable farm in eastern Iowa. The Convergence was attended by 30 people from across the Midwest focused on centering queerness in sustainable agriculture. Read a recap of the event from the host’s perspective on the Humble Hands Harvest website here. The group discussed queer economics, opportunities for queer ag collaborations, and how to further food systems in new and innovative ways. As a result of the first-annual Queer Farmer Convergence, the group is generating a listserv, a zine, a shared resource page, and is sharing content through queerfarmercollective.com. Humble Hands Harvest happens to be a customer of USDA—they’ve worked with NRCS to build a seasonal high tunnel (like a greenhouse) on their farm in Winneshiek county, Iowa! Equality USDA is proud to con- tribute to creating inclusive spaces for LGBTQ+ folks in rural areas through this new partnership. Seeking workshop presenters for the 5th Annual Cultivating Change Summit Des Moines, Iowa June 19-21 This three-day global agriculture conference features educational opportunities, workshops, expert pan- els, networking mixers, and keynotes from prominent agriculture LGBTQ+ and ally leaders. The purpose of the Summit is to bring together agriculture LGBTQ+ employees, human resources and diversity and inclu- sion professionals, employee resources group leaders, executives and organizational leaders, allies and others who are working toward an equitable environment. If you are submitting a workshop for consideration, please let us know at [email protected]. Apply here. Hey, that’s the USDA panel at the 2018 Cultivating Change Summit! Pretty cool—we’re part of Cultivating Change’s mar- keting materials now (and so isMighty Mini Mi- crobe, our Soil Health superhero!)!! 4 LGBTQ+ History Month LGBTQ+ History Month was created in 1994 by Rodney Wilson, a high school history teacher in Missouri. The month was initially chosen to include National Coming Out Day on October 11 and to commemorate the anniversary of the first National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights by LGBTQ+ people on Oc- tober 14, 1979. LGBTQ+ History month includes: • Spirit Day on October 20, on which people around the country wear purple in support of LGBTQ+ youth; • Ally Week, a week in which allies against LGBTQ+ bullying are celebrated; • The anniversary of Matthew Shepard's murder. 21-year-old Matthew Shepard died on October 12, 1998, sparking the cre- ation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Snapshot: Equality USDA History Source: USDA GLOBE History fact sheet—Where has USDA GLOBE been? In 1992, Federal GLOBE was formed. This is an umbrella organization that facilitated communication between the GLOBE organization in the various Departments of the Federal Government. On April 15, 1993, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy issued his Civil Rights Policy Statement. This statement for the first time specifically prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation at USDA. In June of 1993, Secretary Espy formed a Task Force on Sexual Orientation to look at how the nondiscrimination policy should be implemented. In December 1993, the first meeting of USDA GLOBE was attended by 18 people. To a large degree, the ability of the group to form was facilitated by Secretary Espy’s Civil Rights Policy statement and Task Force creation. On March 25, 1994, USDA GLOBE was officially sanctioned as an employee organization by Wardell C. Townsend, Jr, Assistant Secretary for Administration. During the years 1994 - 1995, the organization focused on spreading the word of our existence throughout the De- partment. Two USDA GLOBE field chapters were established in California and Colorado. The organization also focused on developing a support network among members, many of whom had not previously been out in the workplace. In 1996, the organization continued to focus on outreach to our membership. A mentoring program was developed to encourage contact with field members. A third USDA GLOBE started forms in Florida. On May 29, 1996, USDA GLOBE submits a compilation of all the agency Civil Rights policy statements issued within USDA to the Office of Civil Rights in an effort to advocate for a stronger implementation of the sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy. At the time, USDA GLOBE noted that only 6 of the 13 statements issued by the various Mission Areas and Agencies in- cluded a prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation. On June 12, 1996, USDA GLOBE met with Secre- tary Dan Glickman and encouraged the Secretary to lend his leadership to the implementation of the sexual orienta- tion nondiscrimination policy. Stay tuned for more Equality USDA history lessons in future newsletters. 5 LGBTQ+ History Month 31 Days, 31 Icons October 2018 Monday Oct. 1 Gilbert Baker -- Rainbow Flag Designer Tuesday, Oct. 2 Matthew Shepherd-- Hero, martyr, human Wednesday, Oct. 3 Janet Mock -- Writer, TV Host, Actor, Director, and transgender rights activitist Thursday, Oct. 4 Frank Kameny - Gay rights activist, dismissed from federal service during the Lavender Scare Friday, Oct. 5 Melvin Boozer -- Gay Pioneer Saturday, Oct.
Recommended publications
  • From Criminal to Citizen: How the Evolution of Public Opinion Won Gay Marriage in the Courtroom

    From Criminal to Citizen: How the Evolution of Public Opinion Won Gay Marriage in the Courtroom

    From Criminal to Citizen: How The Evolution of Public Opinion Won Gay Marriage In The Courtroom Sabrina Singer Senior Thesis Department of History Barnard College, Columbia University Advisor: Robert McCaughey Singer 1 Prologue A warm tropical breeze brushed my face as I stood in the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens waiting for the mayor to begin. The crowd murmured with excitement, looking around at each other with anticipation as the sun set behind the palm trees. I glanced over at the couple I had met earlier in the evening. They were dressed in matching tuxedos, holding hands, waiting. The drag queen next to me shifted her weight back and forth, impatient. Then, finally, the speeches were over and the ceremonies could begin. The judge had only lifted the stay on gay marriage in the early hours of the morning, yet hundreds of gay couples lined-up to walk down the makeshift aisle to the hastily constructed altar to be married by the mayor. Dressed in suits, biking clothes, jean shorts, and bathing suits, couple after couple affirmed their love and commitment. Same-sex marriage had come to Florida. I had witnessed similar jubilation in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building two summers prior when the Court issued its momentous ruling in United States vs. Windsor, overturning the Defense of Marriage Act that had prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage. Beholding the relief and joy on the faces of the people swarming the steps of the Supreme Court building, I knew that I had chosen the right issue to believe in.
  • Reading.Homosexuality in America

    Reading.Homosexuality in America

    RECOMMENDEDREADING A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA Despite the fact that humans have never limited their sexual pleasure to what we now call heterosexual intercourse, the history of homosexuality is relatively short. The genital anatomy of one's partners-or what Freud calls one's "object choice"-did not become the definitive criterion for distinguishing homosexual and heterosexual selves until the last third of the nineteenth century. During the 1860's and 70's European public administrators began noticing that some people were organizing their lives not around family, household, and reproduction but around various forms of sexual pleasure. This was probably a recent phenomenon made possible by the forces of capitalism, which tended to draw people off the land into cities away from their parishes and families and to reduce the importance of arranged marriage. Alarmed, officials began studying these populations, whom they characterized as sexual deviants and grouped according to the particular practices they engaged in. One such class of deviant came to be called "homosexuals”. Homosexuals quickly became the target of medical, psychiatric, and legal intervention, and as early as the 1870, they came together in such places as Bavaria to fight criminalization of sodomy. Until the Nazis destroyed Magnus Hirschfeld's homosexual archives in Berlin and hundreds of thousands of homosexual people were sent to die in concentration camps, the homosexual movement in Germany was widespread and influential. In the U.S., the history of homosexual culture and politics is even shorter than it is in Europe. The largest and best-known communities are in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and there are reasons for that.
  • Oral Argument: the Essential Guide

    Oral Argument: the Essential Guide

    ORAL ARGUMENT: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE by Brooke J. Bowman Kirsten K. Davis Lance N. Long Jason S. Palmer Stephanie A. Vaughan Table of Contents Information about the Earlier Version ..........................................................................................iii Copyright ...................................................................................................................................................iii Citation Information .............................................................................................................................iii Limitations on Use .................................................................................................................................iii About the Authors .................................................................................................................................iii About Stetson’s Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication ....................... iv Chapter 1: Oral Argument Matters: An Introduction .............................................................. 1 Chapter 2: Understanding the Purpose of Oral Argument: Take a Judge-Centered Approach ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Chapter 3: Preparing to Persuade: Get Ready to Argue ......................................................... 5 Chapter 4: Organizing the Oral Argument: Balance Structure with Flexibility ......... 19 Chapter 5: Answering Questions: Know
  • A Glimpse at the History of the U.S. LGBTQ Community Part 1 by Valerie

    A Glimpse at the History of the U.S. LGBTQ Community Part 1 by Valerie

    A glimpse at the history of the U.S. LGBTQ community Part 1 by Valerie Etienne-Leveille LGBTQ is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (1). The acronym meaning is simple, yet it provides a glimpse to the varied and complex representative groups united in strength and solidarity toward a common cause which is equal rights for all individuals (2). The early LGBTQ Rights Movement Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, founded the first documented gay rights organization in the United States in 1924 (3)(4). The organization founded in Chicago was named The Society for Human Rights. Gerber’s organization published the earliest documented gay-interest newsletter called “Friendship and Freedom” (3)(5). Due to fear of continued harassment and persecution experienced by many individuals, subscription rates to the Friendship and Freedom newsletter were low. Henry Gerber and the members of his organization were not immune to the social and political hostilities occurring during this time. In 1925, Gerber’s organization disbanded because of unwarranted police raids, arrests, and negative media coverage. Nevertheless, Henry Gerber continued to advocate for gay rights through his writings and networking with the community (5). The Henry Gerber House A National Historic Landmark in Chicago, IL. Photo by Thshriver (5). Activists: Harry Hay (1912-2002) and William Dale Jennings (1917-2000) Harry Hay was an actor, Communist labor organizer, musicologist, theoretician, and political activist (6). He participated in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934 in which the City of San Francisco was shut down when 65,000 workers from all industries walked off from their jobs to demand for more union control toward improved working conditions (7).
  • Anti-Defamation League

    Anti-Defamation League

    Jewish Privilege E. Michael Jones Fidelity Press 206 Marquette Avenue South Bend, Indiana 46617 www.culturewars.com www.fidelitypress.org © E. Michael Jones, 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Fidelity Press. Contents What Is Hate Speech? The ADL and the FBI Online Hate Index Capistrano on Jewish Privilege Homosexual Proxy Warrior Chubby Lesbian Kike Who Defines Hate? What Is Hate Speech? In keeping with the so-called “Christchurch Call to Action” which flowed from a meeting of government officials and internet giants on May 15, 2019 in Paris, Facebook issued an internal document entitled “Hate Agent Policy Review,” which, according to Breitbart, which received a copy from a source inside Facebook, “outlines a series of ‘signals’ that Facebook uses to determine if someone ought to be categorized as a ‘hate agent’ and banned from the platform.”[1] The guidelines were simultaneously draconian and incoherent. You can be designated as a “hate agent” if “you praise the wrong individual, interview them, or appear at events alongside them.”[2] Hate agent status is evidently contagious because Facebook may designate you as a hate agent if you associate with a “Designated Hate Entity,” like the Englishman Tommy Robinson. You can also be designated a hate agent “merely for speaking neutrally about individuals and organizations that the social network considers hateful.” Facebook tagged someone in October of last year simply because he gave what they considered was a “neutral representation of John Kinsman,” who is a member of “Proud Boys,” a group which Facebook does not like and does not want you to like.
  • Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights by Scott De Orio A

    Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights by Scott De Orio A

    Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights by Scott De Orio A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History and Women’s Studies) in The University of Michigan 2017 Doctoral Committee: Professor Matthew D. Lassiter, Chair Professor David M. Halperin Professor William J. Novak Associate Professor Gayle S. Rubin Scott De Orio [email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4631-6241 © Scott De Orio 2017 To my parents ii Acknowledgments Support from several institutions and fellowships made it possible for me to complete this project. At the University of Michigan, the Department of History, the Department of Women’s Studies, the Rackham Graduate School, and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies funded the research and writing of my dissertation and provided me with the ideal intellectual culture in which to do that work. Elizabeth Wingrove got me thinking about gender as a category of analysis in the Community of Scholars seminar that she directed at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Fellowships from Cornell University’s Human Sexuality Collection, Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, and the U-M Department of History funded archival research for the project. While I was in the revision stage, Mitra Shirafi and the Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History exploded my thinking about the law and politics in ways that I’m just beginning to process. When I was in high school, my favorite English teacher Deanna Johnson introduced me to the art of analyzing pop culture, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
  • “The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter”: the Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950S and 1960S

    “The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter”: the Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950S and 1960S

    “The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter”: The Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950s and 1960s Elizabeth Coretto Candidate for Senior Honors in History Oberlin College Thesis Advisor: Renee Romano Submitted Spring 2017 ii Table of Contents Acknowledgments iii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Pioneer Queer Press in the United States 9 Chapter 2: The Beginning of the Homophile Era 20 Chapter 3: ONE and the Rise of the Queer Press 31 Chapter 4: Diversifying the Queer Press in the Homophile Era 49 Conclusion 70 Bibliography 76 iii Acknowledgements This thesis could not have been written without Professors Renee Romano and Ari Sammartino. Neither were interested in any sort of hand-holding, and their expectations and matter-of-fact attitudes worked wonders in forcing me to take full responsibility for my work. Their criticisms—at times difficult even to look at, with entire paragraphs crossed out or sentences rewritten in red—have helped forge this thesis into the best possible work I could have accomplished in the seven-odd months I’ve worked on it. Thank you for holding me accountable and pushing me to do better. Thanks also for the moments of therapeutic support which brought me back from cycles of self-pity and self-criticism and kept me going. Much thanks also to the other honors thesis writers: Maurice Cohn, Kaia Diringer, Ian Gilchrist, Lily Posner, and Nate Sher. Our suffering in solidarity reassured me I was not alone in this process, and all your excellent work inspired me to do better. We’ve bonded over confusion regarding footnotes, frustration over sources, and surprisingly difficult grapes.
  • Glbtq >> Special Features >> Jo Becker and Dale Carpenter: Two

    Glbtq >> Special Features >> Jo Becker and Dale Carpenter: Two

    Special Features Index Jo Becker and Dale Carpenter: Two Cases, Two Books Newsletter May 15, 2014 Sign up for glbtq's free Jo Becker and Dale Carpenter: Two Cases, Two newsletter to receive Books a spotlight on GLBT culture every month. by Claude Summers e-mail address Among the handful of cases involving homosexuality that the Supreme Court subscribe of the United States has considered, the most important in delineating the privacy policy rights of gay people are Bowers v. unsubscribe Hardwick (1986), in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of sodomy laws and described as Encyclopedia "facetious" the claim that homosexuals have a right to privacy; Romer v. Evans Discussion go (1996), in which the Court invalidated Colorado's Amendment 2 on the grounds that it deprived gay people of equal rights under the law and furthered Forcing the Spring by Jo no legitimate state interest; Lawrence Becker. v. Texas (2003), in which the Supreme Court reversed Bowers v. Hardwick and declared that "The liberty protected by the Constitution allows homosexual persons the right to choose to enter upon relationships in the confines of their homes and their own private lives and still retain their dignity as free persons"; and the two landmark cases decided on June 26, 2013, Hollingsworth v. Log In Now Perry and Windsor v. U.S. Forgot Your Password? Two of these five cases have been the subject of instructively different Not a Member Yet? kinds of books: Dale Carpenter's Flagrant Conduct. The Story of JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans (2012) and Jo Becker's Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality (2014), which provides an insider's view of the federal litigation against California's Proposition 8.
  • Ask a Feminist a Conversation with Cathy Cohen on Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and Contemporary Activism

    Ask a Feminist a Conversation with Cathy Cohen on Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and Contemporary Activism

    ASK A FEMINIST A conversation with Cathy Cohen on Black Lives Matter, feminism, and contemporary activism WITH CatHY J. COHEN AND SARAH J. JacKSON Introduction I had the pleasure of having this con- versation with Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of VOL 31, NO. 14 DEC. 30, 2015 Political Science and chair of political science at the University of Chicago, in www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com late 2015. Cohen’s work, both academically and as an activist, has inspired my own, particularly in terms of making connec- tions between black feminist theory, so- cial movements, and issues of race and racism in the United States. Cohen is the principal investigator of two major social change projects: The Black Youth Project and the Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic Engagement Project. Her books, Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics have offered important interventions in scholarship on race and politics. She is also the coeditor, with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto, of Women Transform- ing Politics: An Alternative Reader. Since the publication of my book, Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press: Framing Dissent, I have been par- ticularly compelled by the use of tech- nology by racial justice activists like the women who started #BlackLivesMatter. My recent collaborative work with Brooke Foucault Welles, “Hijacking #myNYPD: Social Media Dissent and Net- worked Counterpublics” and “#Ferguson is Everywhere: Initiators in Emerging Counterpublic Networks” (in press), has illustrated that everyday citizens—par- ticularly young women and people of Cathy Cohen.
  • "The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter": the Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950S and 1960S

    "The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter": the Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950S and 1960S

    Oberlin Digital Commons at Oberlin Honors Papers Student Work 2017 "The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter": The Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950s and 1960s Elizabeth A. Coretto Oberlin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors Part of the History Commons Repository Citation Coretto, Elizabeth A., ""The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter": The Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950s and 1960s" (2017). Honors Papers. 214. https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/214 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Work at Digital Commons at Oberlin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Papers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Oberlin. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter”: The Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950s and 1960s Elizabeth Coretto Candidate for Senior Honors in History Oberlin College Thesis Advisor: Renee Romano Submitted Spring 2017 ii Table of Contents Acknowledgments iii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Pioneer Queer Press in the United States 9 Chapter 2: The Beginning of the Homophile Era 20 Chapter 3: ONE and the Rise of the Queer Press 31 Chapter 4: Diversifying the Queer Press in the Homophile Era 49 Conclusion 70 Bibliography 76 iii Acknowledgements This thesis could not have been written without Professors Renee Romano and Ari Sammartino. Neither were interested in any sort of hand-holding, and their expectations and matter-of-fact attitudes worked wonders in forcing me to take full responsibility for my work. Their criticisms—at times difficult even to look at, with entire paragraphs crossed out or sentences rewritten in red—have helped forge this thesis into the best possible work I could have accomplished in the seven-odd months I’ve worked on it.
  • The Race Analogy, Gay Identity, and Gay Litigation in the 1950S-1970S Abstract

    The Race Analogy, Gay Identity, and Gay Litigation in the 1950S-1970S Abstract

    KONNOTH_PREPRESS_V2.DOC 12/5/2009 2:38:39 PM craig j. konnoth Created in Its Image: The Race Analogy, Gay Identity, and Gay Litigation in the 1950s-1970s abstract. Existing accounts of early gay rights litigation largely focus on how the suppression and liberation of gay identity affected early activism. This Note helps complicate these dynamics, arguing that gay identity was not just suppressed and then liberated, but substantially transformed by activist efforts during this period, and that this transformation fundamentally affected the nature of gay activism. Gay organizers in the 1950s and 1960s moved from avoiding identity-based claims to analogizing gays to African-Americans. By transforming themselves in the image of a successful black civil rights minority, activists attempted to win over skeptical courts in a period when equal protection doctrine was still quite fluid. Furthermore, through this attempted identity transformation, activists replaced stigmatizing medico-religious models of homosexuality with self-affirming civil rights-based models. This identity transformation through analogy cemented gay rank-and-file perception of the social treatment they faced as unjust, and helped determine what remedies gays would seek. For example, defensive gay litigation of the 1950s soon gave way to the affirmative impact-type litigation of the civil rights movement. Similarly, in the image of the 1960s racial justice movement, 1970s gays began to pursue legal acceptance of gay marriage rather than first seeking intermediate relationship recognition. Thus, analogies and identity claims can be useful tools for perceiving and remedying oppression. They should, however, be tools that unite, not divide groups: gays and blacks, especially, should recognize their (contingent) commonalities, created as gays remade themselves in the image of blacks.
  • Previous Honorary Degree Recipients 1954—2017 Previous Honorary Degree Recipients Degree Conferred—Date T

    Previous Honorary Degree Recipients 1954—2017 Previous Honorary Degree Recipients Degree Conferred—Date T

    Previous Honorary Degree Recipients 1954—2017 Previous Honorary Degree Recipients Degree Conferred—Date T. COLEMAN ANDREWS ’21, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. DCS—June. 1954 JACOB L. HOLTZMAN, Regent of the University of the State of New York . DCL—June 1954 JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. DCL—June 1954 FREDERICK MARTIN SCHAEBERLE ’14, Incorporator and Retired Treasurer, Pace College . DCS—June 1954 CHARLES T. BRYAN ’14, Incorporator and Retired Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Pace College . DCL—June 1955 WILLIAM B. FRANKE ’17, U.S. Secretary of the Navy . DCL—June 1955 JOHN A. KROUT, Vice President and Provost of Columbia University. DCS—June 1955 ALOYSIUS A. LALLY, CPA, ’25. DCS—June 1955 JOSEPH I. LUBIN, CPA, ’21, Chairman, New York State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners . DCS—June 1955 CHESTER A. ALLEN ’15, President, Kings County Trust Company. DCL—June 1956 ELLIOTT V. BELL, Chairman of the Executive Committee, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Inc. DCS—June 1956 ERNEST A. JOHNSON, President, Lake Forest College. DCS—June 1956 PETER F. DRUCKER, Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University. DCS—October 1956 CARROLL V. NEWSOM, President, New York University. DCL—June 1956 EDWARD H. LITCHFIELD, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh . DCS—October 1956 CHARLES F. NOYES, Chairman, Charles F. Noyes Company, Inc.. DCS—October 1956 THEODORE S. REPPLIER, President, The Advertising Council, Inc. DCL—October 1956 EMANUEL SAXE, Dean, Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration, City College of New York. DCS—October 1956 MARGARET CHASE SMITH, United States Senator from Maine .