Revisiting U.S. Gay Liberation Movements: Politics and Culture

2018-09-18 - 2018-09-22

Henry D. Abelove

活動資訊 Information

活動時間
時間： 2018年09月18日、2018年09月19日、2018年09月22日
地點： 中壢中央大學文學院大講堂C2-224、新竹交通大學人社二館106A研討室、台北師範大學公館校區綜合館地下室1樓小型演講廳
主辦： 中央大學性／別研究室、亞際文化研究國際碩士學位學程（台灣聯合大學系統）、台聯大文化研究跨校碩博士學程、中央大學高教深耕計畫、交通大學＆台聯大系統文化研究國際中心

活動簡介：
2012年，哈佛大學設置了全美第一個同性戀研究（LGBTQ）領域的榮譽教授，獲得這第一個 F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality 榮譽的就是本次受邀來訪的 Henry D. Abelove 教授，可見得其在同性戀研究領域內的重要地位。Abelove教授在哈佛讀完歷史研究的學士學位，在耶魯大學獲得博士學位，是同性戀歷史研究領域內素有盛名的學者，也是1993年出版的經典巨著 The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader排在首位的編者。此次來訪將在中大、交大、台北師大公館校區舉辦一連三場相關演講，並與本地相關學者進行學術對話。Abelove教授對早期美國同性戀運動史有深入研究，此次來台的三場演講都將以歷史分析的進路，重述美國同性 戀運動論述中被略過的重要發展和意義，如同性戀運動初期與激進政治運動之間的關連、運動訴求和目標的歷史演變等等，對於本地過於簡略的同性戀議題認知應可形成重要的啟發。

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Henry Abelove Lecture Series
U.S. Gay Liberation: Its Politics and Culture

Talk #1: Gay Liberation
2018/9/18 10:00-12:00
Lecture Hall (C2-224), Liberal Arts College, National Central University

“Gay Liberation” is the name usually given to a social movement that began in the US at the end of the 1960’s, flourished for a few years, and then disaggregated without quite disappearing. Its values remain a subterranean influence in American glbt circles even in the present. During the short time the gay liberationists were prominent and active, they gave new meaning to many old and familiar themes and tropes of American culture such as ‘love,’ ‘friendship,’ ‘open-ness,’ and ‘freedom.’ They practiced a politics that was street-oriented and confrontational, and they made their ambivalence about the American nation-state, and their loathing of colonialism in all of its forms and shapes, central to their outlook.

Talk #2: Anti-Marriage
2018/9/19 (wed.)   13:30-16:00 
Room 210, HA Building 2, Chiao Tung University

From the 1920’s until now, some American women, both feminist and non-feminist, have been intensely critical of marriage as an institution. Gay liberationists of all genders tended also to be critical of marriage and of monogamous couple-hood as well. But the reasons and motives of the anti-marriage position have shifted over time. And so have the reasons and motives of support for marriage. And so too has the social meaning of American marriage.

 
Talk #3: The Closet
Co-Panalists: Raymond Chu, National Taiwan U, Hans Huang, National Central U
2018/9/22(sat.)    14:00-17:00 
Lecture Hall, General Hall, Taipei Normal University, Gongguan Campus

“The closet,” as a figure of speech that connotes a place and practice of hiding a socially de-valued sexual orientation such as gayness, is a late twentieth-century coinage.  No one knows who first spoke of “the closet” in that now familiar sense. But the poet Frank O’Hara was the first to use it in a prominent and influential publication. That was in 1960. What can we know of the circumstances in which O’Hara came to write of “the closet?” What can we say of the reasons why -- in the years since 1960 – his figure of speech has come to be so widely accepted in American usage?