Joanna Wuest & Paisley Currah (October 25, 2023)

(Rescheduled from October 5) Greenlight welcomes noted LGBTQ+ advocate and scholar Joanna Wuest to celebrate her newest book with us. Born This Way tells the story of how a biologically based understanding of gender and sexuality became central to LGBTQ+ advocacy. Starting in the 1950s, activists sought out mental health experts to combat the pathologizing of homosexuality. As Joanna Wuest shows, these relationships were forged in subsequent decades alongside two broader, concurrent developments: the rise of an interest-group model of rights advocacy and an explosion of biogenetic and bio-based psychological research. The result is essential reading to fully understand LGBTQ+ activism today and how clashes over science remain crucial to equal rights struggles. Acclaimed critic and author of Sex is as Sex Does Paisley Currah returns to the Greenlight (virtual!) stage to join in conversation.
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