HIST 27514 - LGBTQ in 20th C America

Course Credit: 1
(WGSS)
QUEER AMERICA: LGBT HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY U.S. Since the late 1970s.. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender history has grown and flourished into a legitimate academic discipline. More recently, queer theory is now a leading intellectual movement that complicates and disrupts mainstream discourses. Uderstanding America’s LGBT past through the lens of queer theory, this course will chronologically trace the construction and eoluation of same-sex sexuality as both sex acts and socially constructed identities in twentieth century America. Neither progressive nor regressive, the clcass will reveal the stories of queers and the economic, social and political conditions in which they lived during the last century. We will examine additional themes of class, race, ethnicity and gender as they are integral in understanding America’s queer past. Together, we will make good trouble as we queer America’s past. Prerequisite(s): 1 course in History; or permission of instructor [C, HSS]