In October 2023, Queer Studies faculty who hosted episodes in the limited podcast series Remnants of Resistance gathered for a live panel discussion about their experiences working on the project. During the discussion, Heidi Schumacher, Colleen Tripp, Marie Cartier, Sid Hansen, Xochitl Alvizo, Omar Gonzalez, and Stefanie Drew....
In 1976, the LAPD executed a raid on a “slave auction” with 120 officers, two helicopters, and invited videographers and photographers. Forty men were arrested, one of whom requested a copy of the police report after his release. Part of the Aristide Laurent Collection, it paints a specific picture of that night. In this episode....
he notion of “Queering the page” transcends topics of gender and sexuality to include instances of hegemonic or heteronormative disruption that push back against dominant ideologies of power. The episode “Queering the Page and the Nature of Disruption” begins with an analysis of two legal documents (this Affidavit and this Summons), the first of which queers kinship....
The history of psychological research on nonbinary individuals is a history of writing about these folks, making them the object of study. While key sexologists and researchers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing made claims viewed as progressive in their own times, their work also spurred...
The ancestors call: “Divas to the Dance Floor, Please!” The siren song of the dance floor beckons Queer Brown bodies to our Church, our sacred space, our Home…to dance, to make community, to hunt or be hunted…yet an unknown presence is making itself known in the bathhouses, the back rooms, and the sex clubs...
Catholics get queer in the 1970s and 80s by spreading the message that religion has always been a queer thing. The Catholic church had its official position of not supporting ministries to the LGBTQ community (at the time, the "gay community") and affirming that sexuality is only properly expressed within the sacrament of marriage between a man and a woman. Yet, the archives reveal that Catholics also organized...
For two decades, controversial sexologist John Money corresponded with Jan Dailey, a Los Angeles-based freelance sex columnist. Their relationship began in 1979 when Dailey, who lived near LAX, wrote to Money to inquire about the impact of jet noise on sexual health. They corresponded for two decades......
“Gender, Sex, and the Cosmos in the Horror Pulps: From Weird Tales Magazine to Christopher Pike’s 90s Horror Novels” is for horror fans, young and old, who have interests in gender and sexuality and Gothic terror and horror. Associate Professor of English Dr. Colleen Tripp at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) is joined by script writer....
In It’s the 1950s—Where’s My Lesbian Bar!? Dr. Marie Cartier addresses how women could find gay bars in the 1940s, through to the 1950s and today, and discusses how finding a lesbian bar has evolved throughout time. The episode explores the legal loopholes gay bars enacted in order to not be accused, what it meant to have the bar raided.....
