In honor of the 100th anniversary of Harry Hay's birth, CLAGS and the Harry Hay Centennial Committee will sponsor a weekend conference exploring Hay's life and ideas and the multiple facets of LGBT life that Harry Hay himself pioneered. These aspects will be organized around four major themes: the arts, political activism, spirituality and sexual identities. The conference will feature presentations from scholars, activists and artists all exploring the evolution of LGBT life in the 60+ years since Hay and a small cohort of Californians founded the Mattachine Society.
Mohamed Zaki, “We Are Our Stories”: Story-Telling, Community and Togetherness in Cairo's Gay Scene
Michael Miller, “Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances”: Strange Brother, Walt Whitman, and the Performative Space of Contradiction in Jazz Age New York
Brad Rega, Gay Male Discourse of Masculinity and its Policing