Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER STUDI INTERT GROUP
- A LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST NORTH AMERIN GAY AND LBIAN HISTORY NFERENCE
- GAY STUDI BRANCH OUT
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER STUDI INTERT GROUP
It jt unrsr what we already know about how particular people are actively targeted for neglect – this clus health equi LGBTQ2S+ and QTBIPOC muni, human rights ab agast gay and lbian muni around the world, and the epimic of vlence agast Black trans women. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Studi Call for Papers - Internatnal Communitn Associatn. Sharif Mowlaboc, Co-ChairProfsor, Communitn & Media StudiFordham Universy, Chan, Co-ChairAssistant Profsor, School of Journalism & CommunitnChe Universy of Hong Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Studi Intert Group of the ICA wel submissns om scholars, activists, and munitn profsnals whose work addrs the issu and ncerns of LGBTQ+ persons and/or appli queer and trans* theori, queer and trans* people of lor crique, theori of queer transnatnalism, diaspora, and migratn, and/or tersectnaly to var media, culture, and munitn topics.
A LOOK BACK AT THE FIRST NORTH AMERIN GAY AND LBIAN HISTORY NFERENCE
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr & Queer.
Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Studi. A look back at the first North Amerin gay and lbian history nference - Toronto Met Universy Magaze. It marked TMU as an early se of gay and lbian ristance.
The event brought together gay and lbian theorists and historians om across North Ameri to share rearch on the LGBTQ2S+ muny. “Wil '82 was one of the earlit maniftatns of llective gay and lbian studi, ” says English profsor Craig Jennex who is velopg a digal exhib about the nference llaboratn wh fellow English profsor Jason Boyd and the Centre for Digal Humani (CDH) at TMU, slated to lnch 2023.
GAY STUDI BRANCH OUT
Topics vered shared a mon theme of homosexual inty as culturally nstcted. Papers like “The Makg of the Morn Homosexual, ” “Where Gay People Come From” and “The Inventn of the Homosexual” all foc on how the way we classify and tegorize sexualy is not nate or naturally occurrg, says Jennex.
It is this shift thkg about gay inty that be a hallmark of queer theory and subsequent unrstandgs of queerns, says Jennex. Commemoratg the 100th anniversary of Osr Wil's vis to Canada, the Wil '82 nference was anized by the Canadian Gay Archiv (now the The ArQuiv: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archiv) and a part of Pri events for "Dog It! : Lbian and Gay Liberatn the 80s”.
“We want to rever some of the early figur of gay and lbian studi, who I thk have largely been siled, if not fotten, and provi rmatn about the formative years of gay and lbian studi and queer studi, ” says Jason Boyd, who is also the director of the Centre for Digal Humani. Osr Wil was one of the first gay men to be nvicted for homosexual offens. He beme seen as a martyr to state opprsn of sexual mori and has bee an in for the gay muny.