Radically Gay: The Life & Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay: Full Schedule

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.

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9:00am EDT

Sing Out/Act Out: Transformed by Culture

Scott McKinnon, "When John Kerr took his shirt off, I thought that was the best thing I'd ever seen": Gay Male Identity and Childhood Memories of the Movies
Heather MacLachlan, “Gay Music” and GALA Choruses: The Significance of a Gay Choral Repertoire
Samuel Dorf, Who Needs Activism? Age, Race and Identity in the Gay Choral Movement
Moderator: Bettina Aptheker, UC Santa Cruz

Speakers

Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Aptheker is Professor, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book is Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006). Her current research focuses on queering the history of the Communist Left... Read More →

Session I

3:30pm EDT

Sex...politics...action! Identity and Film in the Years of Gay Liberation

Thomas Hafer, Preventing Gay Liberation Puritanism: Use of Gay Liberation by Bohemian Filmmakers
Tara Burk, Imagining Radical Feminism: Lesbian Art in the 1970s
Ryan Powell, Liberation Porn
David Gerstner, Choreographing Homosexual Desire in Philippe Vallois' Johan
Moderator: Ronald Gregg, Yale University

Speakers

Session III