{"id":15231,"date":"2020-09-23T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=15231"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:35:00","slug":"lgbtq-community-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/lgbtq-community-histories","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ Community Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In commemoration of #BiWeek, we are featuring titles edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate that emphasize the history and preservation of two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer settings in the United States. Browse the editors’ works below and read freely accessible excerpts by following the links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Winner of the 2020 UMW Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize<\/strong>!<\/em>
PRESERVATION AND PLACE<\/a>
Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States<\/strong>

Significant historic and archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer Americans is emphasized. The book features chapters on archaeology and interpretation, as well as several case studies focusing on queer preservation projects. The accessible text and associated activities create an interactive and collaborative process that encourages readers to apply the material in a hands-on setting.

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IDENTITIES AND PLACE<\/a>
Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States<\/strong>

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non-heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. The focus is deeper look at how sexually variant and gender non-conforming Americans constructed identity, created communities, and fought to have rights recognized by the government. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.

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COMMUNITIES AND PLACE<\/a>
A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States<\/strong>

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have established gathering spaces to find acceptance, form social networks, and unify to resist oppression. Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans. Authors provide an overview of the concept of \u201cplace\u201d and its role in informing identity formation and community building. The book also includes interactive project prompts, providing opportunities to practically apply topics and theories discussed in the chapters.

Read Chapter 1.\u00a0Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation<\/a>
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Katherine Crawford-Lackey<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in public history at Middle Tennessee State University. She currently serves as a contractor with the National Park Service. Her research focuses on public commemoration and place-based history. She recently co-authored an article with Barbara Little, \u201cExploring American Places with the Discovery Journal: A Guide to Co-Creating Meaningful Interpretation\u201d (The George Wright Forum<\/em>).

Megan E. Springate<\/strong> works in the National Park Service Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education. She currently serves as the National Coordinator for the 19th Amendment Centennial Commemoration for the NPS. Her edited volume, LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History<\/em> (National Park Foundation and National Park Service, 2016) was awarded the 2018 Paul E. Buchanan Award by the Vernacular Architecture Forum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JOURNAL OF BODIES, SEXUALITIES AND MASCULINITIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors:<\/strong>
Jonathan A. Allan, Brandon University, Canada<\/em>
Chris Haywood, Newcastle University, UK <\/em>
Frank G. Karioris, University of Pittsburgh, USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journal provides a venue for research on men\u2019s sexualities and all of their complexities \u2013 temporal, medical, geographic, cultural, ethnic, legal \u2013 by welcoming submissions from the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, and health studies that are theoretically rigorous, methodologically sound, and draw on interdisciplinary approaches. The journal not only reports cutting edge empirical research findings, but is committed to providing an avenue for theoretically-driven and conceptual articles that offer new theoretical, methodological and empirical insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCREENBODIES<\/strong><\/a>
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor:<\/strong> Brian Bergen-Aurand, Bellevue College, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screen Bodies\u00a0<\/em>is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the intersection of Screen Studies and Body Studies across disciplines, institutions, and media. It is a forum promoting research on various aspects of embodiment on and in front of screens through articles, reviews, and interviews. The journal considers moving and still images, whether from the entertainment industry, information technologies, or news and media outlets, including cinema, television, the internet, and gallery spaces. It investigates the private experiences of portable and personal devices and the institutional ones of medical and surveillance imaging.\u00a0Screen Bodies<\/em>\u00a0addresses the portrayal, function, and reception of bodies on and in front of screens from the perspectives of gender and sexuality, feminism and masculinity, trans* studies, queer theory, critical race theory, cyborg studies, and dis\/ability studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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