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.
Dan Royles, Black Men Loving Black Men is the Revolutionary Act of the 1980s
Tristan Cabello, Race, Urban Boundaries and the AIDS Epidemic: Black Gay Activism in Chicago (1978-1985)
David Villarreal, Queering Prisons to Understand Gay Life: How the Rise of Conservatism Intersected with the HIV/AIDS Epidemic to Make the “Gay Criminal”
Kirung Paul Jjingoi, Uganda, Where Being A Gay and HIV Positive is a Direct Flight to Death