Transcription of the Program
Wilde ‘82
HISTORY CONFERENCE
TORONTO, CANADA
June 30 – July 3, 1982
Location: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Registration: Cost $20; students and unemployed $10, day pass $8.
For information call: 533-6824
(under a photograph of Oscar Wilde) Oscar Wilde North American tour 1882
June 30 Wednesday
11:00 – 12:00 Jim Steakley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. The personal as the political: political cartoons on a homosexual scandal, 1906-1909. [Prince Eulenburg scandal].
12:00 – 12:30 Robert K. Martin, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. The dramatist as subversive. [Oscar Wilde].
12:30 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 Lex Watson, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. The history of gays in Sydney, Australia.
2:30 – 3:15 Beert Verstraete, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Homosexuality and social relationships in Ancient Rome.
3:45 – 5:00 Greg Sprague, Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project. The making of the American homosexual community: historical transformation of urban gay subcultures into a national gay culture. Location: Room L72, Jorgensen Hall. Slideshow
July 1 Thursday
10:30 – 11:30 Karla Jay, writer and lecturer, New York City. Natalie Barney, Renée Vivien and the re-creation of the Golden Age of Sappho. Location: Room 60, Jorgensen Hall. Slideshow
11:45 – 1:00 Barry Adam, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. Where gay people come from.
1:00 – 1:45 Lunch
1:45 – 3:45 Allan Bérubé, San Francisco Lesbian & Gay History Project. Marching to a different drummer. [Lesbian and gay GI’s in World War II]. Location: Room L72, Jorgensen Hall. Slideshow
4:15 – 5:15 Michael Lynch, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Richard Partington, actor, Toronto, Ontario. Wildflowers. [Richard Howard’s dramatization of the 1882 meeting between Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman].
July 2 Friday
10:00 – 11:30 Frances Doughty, Lesbian History Caucus, New York City. A family of friends: portraits of a lesbian friendship group 1921-1973. Location: Room 60, Jorgensen Hall. Slideshow
11:45 – 12:45 Michael Lynch, University of Toronto, Toronto. Between friendship and homosexuality: is adhesiveness the missing link?
12:45 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 Liz Kennedy / Madeline Davis, Buffalo Lesbian Oral History Proj. Bars and the Buffalo lesbian community 1930-1960.
2:45 – 3:30 Vern Bullough, State University of New York at Buffalo. Salt Lake City lesbians in the 1920’s.
3:45 – 5:45 Jim Steakley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. The rise and fall of the early German gay movement (1860-1945). Location: Room L72 Slideshow
7:00 – 9:30 Panel The making of the modern homosexual: the social construction of lesbian and gay men. Moderator: Greg Sprague Panelists: Bert Hansen, Karla Jay, Joe Interrante and Gayle Rubin. Location: Room L72, Jorgensen Hall.
July 3 Saturday
10:30 – 11:30 Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. One life to stand beside me: emotional conflicts of first generation college-educated women.
11:45 – 1:45 Joe Interrante, Boston Lesbian and Gay History Project. Our Boston heritage: lesbian and gay ancestors from 1800 to the present. Location: Room 60, Jorgensen Hall. Slideshow
1:45 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30 – 3:45 Allan Bérubé, San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project. Blue angels: homosexuals in U.S. military psychiatric wards.
3:45 – 4:30 Jonathan Katz, author, New York City. The invention of the homosexual.
4:30 – 5:45 Gayle Rubin, San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project. Paris 1900 – 1930: Natalie Barney, Renée Vivien and friends. Slideshow
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Gay Archives and Doing It! Lesbian and Gay Liberation in the ‘80’s. Mailing address: Box 639, Station A, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1G2. Telephone (416) 977-6320.