Christa B. Hanhardt Among the first lsons stctors teach lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) history class is about the changg fns and of the word queer. Up through the neteenth century the word was primarily ed to mark dividuals nsired odd or outsi social norms. Queer rried particular currency sndal om the
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The History of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Studi, and Queer Studi at UCLA UCLA has sponsored rearch lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr * queer studies history *
The History of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Studi, and Queer Studi at UCLA. UCLA has sponsored rearch lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer studi for over fifty years, longer than almost any other universy the Uned Stat.
The program enjoys this distctn thanks to the work of Evelyn Hooker, a rearch psychologist at UCLA, who was urged by a former stunt and other gay men she knew to study homosexuals who were not psychiatric treatment. Her rearch, which she began prentg publicly 1954, showed that there is no tectable difference the psychologil health of homosexual and heterosexual men. As one of the very first amics to challenge the belief that homosexuals are some way flawed, Hooker assured UCLA a place of honor among U.
After several years of discsn and planng, an unrgraduate mor lbian, gay, and bisexual studi was approved early 1997, and the Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studi Program began s work the fall quarter of that year. In 1998, the program was renamed Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Studi. And 2016, the program will broan s reach and be renamed Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Studi.