Queer Histories and Cultures in the United States

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This course explores how contemporary understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality have shifted and developed over time with a specific focus on queer identities; highlights key moments of LGBTQ+ activism and political engagement; traces the interplay between sexual and gender minorities and law, politics, religion, and medicine; and explores how queer identities intersect with race, class, disability, and nationality. Through engagement with memoirs, treatises, academic works, documentaries, art, and a range of primary sources produced by, for, and about LGBTQ+ people primarily in the United States, students will gain knowledge of the most important aspects and events that have shaped queer histories and cultures.