LGBTQ Historical Scholarship: What Was It Like Twenty Years Ago?: Introduction

Bob was long tenured, but he endured homophobic vandalism of his office multiple times on his small, religious campus as his scholarship made his personal proclivities more public. [...]we both had to consider certain risks in pursuing this project, but those risks fueled our sense of need for such...

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Published inTheatre topics Vol. 26; no. 1; p. 27
Main Authors Schanke, Robert A, Marra, Kim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.03.2016
Subjects
Actors
Biographies
Black history
Broadway theater
Careers
Conferences (Gatherings)
Editors
Essays
Focus Groups
Gays & lesbians
Gossip
Homophobia
Musical theater
Scholarship
Self concept
Sexuality
Social justice
Theater history
Womens Studies
Iowa
United States > US
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Summary:Bob was long tenured, but he endured homophobic vandalism of his office multiple times on his small, religious campus as his scholarship made his personal proclivities more public. [...]we both had to consider certain risks in pursuing this project, but those risks fueled our sense of need for such work ultimately to combat homophobia. [...]I had never bothered to count, but when I did, the ratio was three of twenty-seven books signed that year-hardly a preponderance-but clearly the Triangulations series had been casting a lavender shadow over the place. [...]I would like to say that the gift of this team of editors next to me is the way in which they produced a marriage of queer theory and LGBTQ history (now legal in all fifty states!) and promulgated such diverse and bountiful academic riches. [...]to learn about Mary Martin's sexuality, my identity did not get me access to knowledge; if anything, it excluded me from the gossip that I needed to know to move forward.
ISSN:1054-8378
1086-3346