March 9: CSGS Website Launch Party for Otherwise: Queer Scholarship Into Song

CSGS Website Launch Party for Otherwise: Queer Scholarship Into Song with music videos & live performance by Kay Turner & The Pages (Viva DeConcini & Mary Feaster) March 9, Thursday 7 to 9 pm Join CSGS and performers Kay Turner, Viva DeConcini, and Mary Feaster as we celebrate this homecoming–or homo-coming–of the Otherwise project.  Otherwise transforms “academic” studies of queer …

Oct 8: Life & Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980 to 1983

Life & Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980 to 1983 a one-day symposium featuring Tim Lawrence (University of East London), Bernie Gendron (music historian), Leonard Abrams (East Village Eye), Patti Astor (downtown actor, Fun Gallery, Wild Style), Johnny Dynell (Mudd Club, Pyramid, Danceteria, Area), Steven Harvey (New York Rocker), Danny Krivit (Roxy), Sal Principato (Liquid …

April 10: Perverse Ambitions, Deviant Careers: A Queer History of the Modern American Workplace

Perverse Ambitions, Deviant Careers: A Queer History of the Modern American Workplace a lecture by Margot Canaday Thursday, April 10 6:30 to 8 pm Margot Canaday, History, Princeton University While historians of sexuality have explored working class cultures, an assumption that workplaces were “straight spaces” in which queer people passed has limited inquiry into the …

March 6: The AIDS Generation

The AIDS Generation a panel discussion with Eric Bartley, Jack Drescher, & Perry N. Halkitis Thursday, March 6 7:30 to 9:30 pm Eric Bartley, AIDS activist and Housing Works, Inc. Board of Directors member Jack Drescher, psychiatrist & psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City Perry N. Halkitis, Applied Psychology, Public Health & Medicine …