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e h Committeet on Gay and Lesbian History SpringSpring 2007 VVolumeolume 21, IssuIssuee 1 In This Issue CLGH Chair’s Column Karen C. Krahuli 1 Chair’s Column k Karen C. Krahulik Greetings, friends and colleagues. First on my 2 Publications and Presentations by Members agenda is to thank all of you who supported the 4 Special Section: Museums and Archives CLGH at the AHA conference in Atlanta. We had a delightful trip on Friday evening to the Bell Tower 6 John Boswell Prize announcement of the Historical Oakland Cemetery, where Kevin 6 Call for Submissions for 2008 CLGH Prizes Kuharic (Restoration and Landscape Manager) alerted us to the socioeconomic histories of the 7 Governing Board Nominations cemetery before Jodie Talley (graduate student at 8 Reviews Georgia State) fi lled us in on its queer inhabitants, William Bennemann, Male-Male Intimacy in markers and visitors. The CLGH’s Saturday evening Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships reception at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History similarly Thomas A. Foster, Sex and the Eighteenth- was successful. Before a sizeable group, Kerrie Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Cotton Williams (AARL Archivist, Ph.D. NYU), William Sexuality in America Holden (Emory LGBT Studies Librarian) and others Reviewed by William Pencak welcomed us to Atlanta and invited us to investigate E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson (eds.) their burgeoning archival collections. Wesley J. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology Chenault (Archivist at the Kenan Research Center/ Reviewed by Eric Ledell Smith Atlanta History Center), was critical in both the David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked planning and implementation of these events; he the Gay Revolution was also a delightful host for the CLGH in Atlanta. Reviewed by Susan Freeman The popularity of our evening social events Steven Cohan, Incongruous Entertainment: stemmed, I believe, from the intellectual energy Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical that was produced during the conference itself. The Reviewed by James W. Jones CLGH co-sponsored fi ve sessions plus had a number Paul Jackson, One of The Boys:Boys: HomosexualityHomosexuality of members participating on non-CLGH panels. Once in the Military during World War II I learned who these people were and when/where Reviewed by Stephen J. Stillwell, Jr., their panels were taking place, I encouraged others to attend. But for future AHA meetings, if you are Gayatri Reddy,y, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating delivering a paper related to the history of sexuality, Hijra Identity in South India please ask your panel organizer to consider a CLGH Reviewed by Linda Heidenreich co-sponsorship. If co-sponsored by us, your panel will Erica Rand, The Ellis Island Snow Globe be listed in the program with other CLGH-related Reviewed by Karen C. Krahulik sessions and events (leading to increases in interest, Henry Abelove, Deep Gossip. audience members and knowledge about the scope Reviewed by Tirza True Latimer of lgbtq work in history). 20 Ballot Finally, although the CLGH Business Meeting was poorly attended to say the least (it seems members CLGH were much more interested in the intellectual and Chair: social events, understandably), we were able to move Karen C. Krahulik, [email protected] forward on several business agenda items. Many Book Review Editor: of these items you will see in ballot form either in Ian Lekus, [email protected] this newsletter issue or in the fall. Our esteemed treasurer, James Rosenheim, reported a defi cit in our Newsletter Editor: Kevin P. Murphy, [email protected] annual operating budget. After comparing CLGH Continued on Page 2 dues with those of our peer affi liate societies, he Coleman, Jonathan. The Gay Gods: Homosexuality in proposed to raise and modify our dues structure. Greco-Roman Myth; We Have to Hang Someone: The The defi cit is due, in part, to increased costs for Execution of Ellison Mounts. the newsletter and AHA reservations as well as decreases in income from annual membership dues. Conerly, Gregory. Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, To address this and other membership issues, I am Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture. proposing to amend the bylaws so that the CLGH Ed. Marc Stein, Charles Scribner’s and Sons (2004). can add the position of Secretary. The Secretary Wrote following entries: “African American LGBTQ will oversee our membership database and will Organizations and Periodicals” (Volume 1, pp. 146- take proactive measures to collect annual dues 147), “Mel Boozer” (Volume 1, pp. 150-151), “Third and to increase the membership-at-large. Many World Gay Revolution” (Volume III, pp. 185-187).; “An of our peer affi liates have a similar position (see Open Mind, a Clean Heart, and One Dollar Please!’: affi liates list via the AHA website). Please vote on Bejeweled Messiahs, Queer Consumerism, and Post- the dues modifi cation and on the amendment to World War II Black Urban Religious Culture” Cultural the bylaws in this issue. In the Fall 2007 issue, we Studies Association – Tucson, AZ (April 2005) (the Governing Board, the Newsletter Editor, and the Book Review Editor) will propose two important Dinshaw, Carolyn. “The History of GLQ, Volume 1,” name changes: one for the CLGH and one for the GLQ 12:1 (2006):5-26; “Touching on the Past,” in M. Newsletter. We are in the process now of gathering Kuefl er, ed., The Boswell Thesis, pp. 57-73. feedback, and I will begin a listserv conversation on name changes in advance of the Fall 2007 ballot. Elash, Daniel Frontino. “Not one Man In America Until then, my very best wishes to you all. Believed Him.” On the Historical Misunderstanding of John Adams, with an Apologia. Ex Post Facto XV, 2006. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS BY MEMBERS Francikova, Dasa. Midwest Slavic Converence, OSU, Ohio State “Roles and Images of Women in the Czeck Baxter, Randolph W. “ ‘Aren’t We A Couple?’ A National Movement in the Decade before the 1848 Historical Comparison of Slave Marriages and Revolution: Complicated and Confusing Matters,” Same-Sex Marriages,” in Mark Strasser, Traci C. 2006; “`My Dear Only One’: Rethinking Bozena West, Martin Dupuis & William A. Thompson, eds., Nemcova’s friendships with women.” Translated Defending Same-Sex Marriage, 3 vols. (Westport, from English to Russian. In Gender History in CT.: Greenwood, forthcoming Sept. 2006).; “Butch vs. Eastern Europe. Edited by Elena Gapova, Almira Femme During the Early Cold War: Deconstructing Ousmanova and Andrea Peto, 170-176. EHU, Minsk, Hyper-Masculine Ideologies. Review of Robert D. 200.; “Female Friends in Nineteenth-Century Dean’s Imperial Brotherhood and David K. Johnson’s Bohemia: Troubles with Affectionate Writing and The Lavender Scare,” Peace & Change: A Journal of ‘Patriotic Relationships.’” Journal of Women’s History Peace Research [Special Issue: Queer Studies Meets 12, no.3 (Autumn, 2000): 23-28.; Regional Seminar on Peace Studies] 30, 4 (Fall 2005): 540-47. Gender and Culture (Program on Gender and Culture, Central European University, Budapest), “`My Dear Bearden, Joshua. M.A. Thesis: “’Can’t I make use of Only One’: Rethinking Bozena Nemcova’s friendships my own Body”: A Revisionist Approach to Sodimy with women.” October, 1999 – October, 2000.; Trials in London, 1700-1785.” International Conference Writing Women’s History and History of Gender in Countries of Transition, Buckridge, Ph.D., Steeve O. The Language of Dress: Minsk, Belarus, “`My Dear Only One’: Rethinking Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1790- Bozena Nemcova’s Friendships with Women, “1999. 1890 (Kingston: the University of the West Indies Press, 2004). Friedman, Andrea. “The Smearing of Joe McCarthy: Charles, Douglas M. “The FBI, the Mattachine Society, The Lavender Scare, Gossip, and Cold War Politics” and One, Inc.: Gay Subversion in the 1950s,” OAH appeared in American Quarterly 57, 4 (December annual meeting, Washington, DC, 23 April 2006. 2005): 1105-29. Spring 2007 2 Giles, Geoffrey J. (Chapters in books) “A Latimer, Tirza. “Imagining Community: Rober Giard’s homoszexualisok naci uldozese a megszallt [please note the spelling] Vision” for an exhibition orszagokban,” [The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals catalogue titled The Photography of Robert Giard, in Occupied Countries] in Judit Molnar (Ed.), A published by Jonathan Edwards College, Yale Holokauszt Magyarorszagon Europai Perspektivaban University (2006). (Budapest: Balassi Kiado, 2005), pp. 412-430.; A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confusion Millan, Isabel. Review of The Night is Young: in the Discrimination Against Homosexuals in the Secuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS by Hector Wehrmacht,” in Jonathan Petropoulos & John K Carrillo for CLGH. (forthcoming) Roth, Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath (New York: Berghahn, Miller, Heather Lee. “‘If they ever legalize work . 2005), pp. 127-146.; “The Denial of Homosexuality: . I’m in trouble’: Tools and Tricks of the Sex Trade Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler’s SS and Police,” in in the Late-Twentieth-Century United States.” Dagmar Herzog (Ed.), Sexuality and German Fascism April 2006, Organization of American Historians (New York: Berghahn, 2005), pp. 256-290.; “Drinking Conference, Washington, D.C.; “Natural and Political: and Crime in Modern Germany,” in Peter Becker & Nudity in the National Parks.” March 2006, American Richard F. Wetzell, Criminals and Their scientists: The Society for Environmental History Conference, St. History of Criminology in International Perspective Paul, Minnesota.; “The ‘Thrills’ and ‘Tinglings’ of (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. Sex Work: Fact or Fantasy?” June 2005, Berkshire 471-485.; (Articles) “Legislating Homophobia in Conference on the History of Women, Scripps the Third Reich: The Radicalization of Prosecution College, Claremont, California. Against Homosexuality by the Legal Profession,” German History, 23, 3, 2005, pp. 339-354. Morris, Bonnie J. “Valuing Women-Only Spaces,” in Feminist STudies, v. 31, n. 3; “Negotiating Lesbian Helquist, Michael.