Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: Sexologist, Student, Empire of Queer Love"
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2024
- Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love"
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"In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld’s assistant on a lecture tour around the world.
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas.
Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler’s Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights."
Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston)
Comment by Javier Samper Vendrell (University of Pennsylvania)
8 February 2024
17:00 CST
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
College of Charleston Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies
Center for German & European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History
Laurie Marhoefer is a historian of queer and trans politics at the University of Washington where he is also affiliated with the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Germanics. Marhoefer’s 2015 book on fascism and the politics of sex, "Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis" (University of Toronto Press), reexamines the gay and trans rights movements of the 1920s. Marhoefer writes publicly on topics such as neo-Nazism, queer fascism, and the history of AIDS.
Javier Samper Vendrell is Assistant Professor of German and a core faculty member in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His book "The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic" appeared with University of Toronto Press in 2020. His research focuses on LGBTQ+ history, literature, film, television, photography, and print culture in Germany since 1890. His research and teaching interests encompass nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and European cultural history; race, gender and sexuality; and youth and popular cultures. His current research focuses on two main areas: homoerotic photography and the cultural history of queer childhood.
Chad S.A. Gibbs serves as Director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies and Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies. He is a historian of the Holocaust, antisemitism, modern Germany, and war and society. Chad’s current project focuses on gender, geography, and social networks in Jewish resistance at Treblinka. Chad has held fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Yale University Fortunoff Video Archive, the George L. Mosse Program in History, and the USC Shoah Foundation, where he remains an Affiliated Researcher. His extensive work in oral histories at several archives contributes teaching and scholarly interests in the collection and analysis of survivor testimonies as well as the generational transmission of knowledge and trauma.