The Beyer Residency in Gay and Lesbian Studies

DON ROMESBURG
Chair of the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies department and founder of its Queer Studies minor.
THE BEYER RESIDENCY IN GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES
Monday-Tuesday, February 11-12
Sponsored by Gender and Sexuality Studies and a generous donation from Rick Beyer ’66.

Where She Comes From: Accounting for Queer Transracial Adoption - Monday, Feburary 11, 4:30 p.m., Carnegie 10
Dr. Romesburg develops an answer to the oft-asked question of where his daughter—a 7-year-old African American girl with two white, middle-class gay dads—“comes from.”

Community Workshop: Past/Queer/Youth: Histories, Methods, and Justice - Tuesday, February 12, Noon-1:30 p.m., Sykes Common Room
How do understandings of the queer past change when youth are brought into the frame? What might this have to do with approaching history with a commitment to transformative social justice? Participants are encouraged to read Dr. Romesburg’s article, ‘Wouldn’t a Boy Do?’ Placing Early-Twentieth-Century Male Youth Sex Work into Histories of Sexuality” in advance: (e-mail Joyce Sheridan at jsheridan@stlawu.edu to register and get a copy of the article.)

Presenting the Queer Past: A Case for the GLBT History Museum - Tuesday, February 12, 4:30 p.m., Carnegie 10
Can this new museum develop financial security and maintain its grass roots? As online exhibition proliferates, are all brick-and-mortar history museums becoming obsolete?