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Home Page of Lesbian and Gay History, Politics, and Culture
Political Science 826.01
English 860
History 754

Fall 1995
Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 PM

Profs. Blanche Weisen Cook, Kenneth Sherrill, Alisa Solomon

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Office Hours

Prof. Cook:
To Be Announced.
Prof. Sherrill:
GSUC: Wednesdays, 4 - 6 PM (with significant exceptions), *
1560 Grace Building: Thursdays, Hunter, 1-2 PM
1723 West Building: other afternoons, by appointment.
Phones: GSUC: (212) 642-2355, -2381
Hunter: (212) 772-5507/5500
Prof. Solomon:
GSUC: Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:30
Baruch College: Tues/Thurs, 4:30-5:30, 802-6648


This homepage has been prepared to provide links to databases and resources that all students should find of utility. I urge you to explore it as soon as possible and to plan to make use of it in your research for this course.

With the assistance of the Graduate School's Academic Computing Center staff, we have created an e-mail discussion group for this course. Be certain to have an e-mail account and to fill out all necessary paper work for this immediately. Given the fact that all three faculty in this course are based at other colleges and that we all have complex professional lives, this may prove to be the best way for you to reach us. Further, it provides an opportunity for you to communicate with one another when class is not in session. Virtual community, as we will see, has been crucial to the development of the LGB movement. I suspect that virtual community is also the closest that the CUNY Graduate School will come to having an academic community.

The listserv is CCS-L. (It was to be CSS-L for Cook-Sherrill-Solomon, but an error in data entry turned it into CCS-L)

Requests to join the list are made by sending the message SUBSCRIBE to:

CCS-L-REQUEST@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu

Bibliography
Prof. Sherrill's Testimony

Tentative Course Outline

  1. Where Are We Now? Where Do We Go From Here?
  2. The Historical Denial of Gay and Lesbian Experience
    1. Our Closeted Culture: From _The Captive_ to PeeWee Herman
    2. Straightening the Story: Public and Political Figures, the Visible and the Veiled Record
    3. Gays in the Military: Freedom vs. Repression and the Crisis of Citizenship
  3. Civil Rights/Gay Rights/ Human Rights
    1. Activists and Agitators/ The "Movement"
    2. Propaganda/Political Theater, Performance &Writing/ Mainstream Representation vs. Representing Ourselves
    3. The Role of Law/ The Contours of Struggle
  4. Alternative Cultures, Countercultures, Visions of Community, Utopia, Revolution
    1. Families: Unchosen and Chosen
    2. Friendship Networks and Community Building/ The Construction of a "Gay Market"
    3. Acting Up: Revolutionaries and Utopians

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Class Resources on the Web

Footnotes

* The only hour it was possible to schedule this course was Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Prof. Sherrill's commitments at Hunter and responsibilities as a member of the University Faculty Senate Executive Committee often will keep him away from the Graduate School until shortly before 6:30 PM on the following dates: Sept. 6, 13, 27; Oct. 11, 25; Nov. 8, 22; Dec. 6, 13. We will have to schedule alternate times for conferences.

This page was authored by Shawn Connelly
Last updated on Wed, Oct 4, 1995.
Special Thanks to George McClintock and Ken Sherrill < /html>

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    Footnotes

    * The only hour it was possible to schedule this course was Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Prof. Sherrill's commitments at Hunter and responsibilities as a member of the University Faculty Senate Executive Committee often will keep him away from the Graduate School until shortly before 6:30 PM on the following dates: Sept. 6, 13, 27; Oct. 11, 25; Nov. 8, 22; Dec. 6, 13. We will have to schedule alternate times for conferences.

    This page was authored by Shawn Connelly
    Last updated on Wed, Nov 1, 1995.
    Special Thanks to George McClintock and Ken Sherrill     < /html>