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October 2007 - Annual conference of the American Studies Association - Philadelphia, PA: I'll be presenting a paper titled "Embracing Mental Illness: The Homophile Movement's Crisis over the 'Sickness Model' of Homosexuality, 1964-1969." It's part of a panel called "Queering the Regime: Challenging America's Legal and Medical Notions of Sexuality and Masculinity." June 3, 2007 - A presentation for students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison: A talk with video clips about LGBT images on American television from the 1950s to 1970s. The students are taking a "mobile" course about LGBT issues in the mid 20th century. The class is taught on a bus as they travel around, meeting with pioneering activists and LGBT scholars. May 1, 2007, 12:30 p.m. - University of Delaware - Newark, DE: A 75-minute version of my "Alternate Channels" talk: a video-illustrated lecture that traces the evolution of LGBT images in prime-time TV from the 1950s to the present. Part of a lecture series presented by the human sexuality program. November 1, 2006 - William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Library - Philadelphia, PA: The first session of the Library's monthly Authors Series featured novelist Fred Shelley and media historian Steven Capsuto. April 22, 2006 - Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference - Baltimore, MD: The theme of the 2006 MARAC conference was "Archives on the Edge." I was on a panel called "Issues in Organizing and Sustaining LGBT Community-Based Archival/Historical Groups." October 20, 2005 - Suffolk University - Boston, MA: A 90-minute version of my "Alternate Channels" talk. Cosponsored by the university's LGBT student organization and the Journalism Department. October 22, 2005 - HiTOPS conference - Princeton, NJ: A 50-minute presentation about how TV's depiction of gay teenagers has evolved since the 1970s. July 8, 2005 - DignityUSA Convention - Philadelphia, PA: A 90-minute version of my "Alternate Channels" talk, at the national convention of DignityUSA (an organization for LGBT Catholics). January 16, 2005 - Haddon Township High School - Haddon Township, NJ: I spoke at a meeting of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance. Topic: How TV's depiction of gay teenagers has evolved since the 1970s. October 25, 2004 - Illinois State University - Normal/Bloomington, IL: A video-illustrated after-dinner talk about LGBT regular characters on TV series, 1970s-2000s. May 24, 2004 - Museum of Television and Radio - New York, NY: I was on a panel with producers, writers and performers from the Showtime series Queer As Folk and The L Word. It was part of the Museum's 2004 screening series about sexual minorities. May 10, 2004 - Friends Central School - Wynnewood, PA: A special, 35-minute talk and video presentation looking at how television's depiction of gay and bisexual teenagers has evolved since the 1970s. April 28, 2004 - Bournemouth University Media School - Bournemouth, United Kingdom: A new lecture with video clips: "Cloning British Television: American Remakes of U.K. TV Series, from TW3 to Queer as Folk and Coupling." It was part of a lecture series for graduate students in media production. April 17, 2004 - SUNY-Potsdam - Potsdam, NY: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture, built around video clips tracing fifty years of LGBT images from U.S. television. April 9, 2004 - University of Florida - Gainesville, FL: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. January 14 to February 11, 2004 - Wednesdays, William Way Community Center - Philadelphia, PA: Multi-week seminar tracing the history of LGBT images on TV in the United States, Great Britain and other countries. November 14, 2003, COGAM lgbt community center - Madrid, Spain: "Alternate Channels" lecture in Spanish, with subtitled clips that trace a half-century of LGBT images in American television. October 27, 2003, St. Joseph's University - Philadelphia, PA: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. April 7, 2003, Coe College - Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. May 7, 2003, Bournemouth University - Bournemouth, United Kingdom: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. November 8, 2002, COGAM lgbt community center - Madrid, Spain: "Alternate Channels" lecture in Spanish, with subtitled video clips. June 12, 2002, Free Library of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA: A short, informal talk with video clips, about the development of "queer" images on television. April 4, 2002, San Francisco State University - San Francisco, CA: "Alternate Channels" talk/video. Later the same day, a new lecture with video clips: "Double Invisibility: LGBT Characters of Color on TV." Sponsored by the SFSU Queer Alliance. April 3, 2002, Hormel Center / San Francisco Public Library - San Francisco, CA: "Alternate Channels" talk/video. March 11, 2002, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ: Talk/video presentation tracing how prime-time television has portrayed gay couples, gay marriage and same-sex weddings. Sponsored by Rutgers' GLB student organization, the BiGLARU. November 3 and 4, 2001 - Greater Palm Springs Pride - Palm Springs, CA: Book reading/informal talk, Saturday afternoon. Panel about LGBT trends in publishing and the mass media, Sunday afternoon. Signing books in the "Authors' Village" throughout much of the weekend October 24, 2001 - Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - Spain: Spanish-language version of my standard, two-hour "Alternate Channels" lecture. July 7, 2001 - "Console-ing Passions" Television Studies Conference - University of Bristol, U.K.: Multimedia lecture, "Lesbian and Gay Characters in Prime-Time Television: A Comparison of the British and American Models," as part of an international panel on GLB television characters. April 28 and 30, 2001 - Miami International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: "Alternate Channels" talk/video. Also served on the panel "Mainstream Gaze," sponsored by the Wolfson Media History Center. April 18, 2001 - University of Delaware: Two-hour "Alternate Channels" lecture with video clips. Dozens of earlier venues for the "Alternate Channels" lectures include: Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, a production meeting of Testing The Limits (documentary producers), Boston University, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, National Museum & Archive of Lesbian & Gay History, University of North Carolina, Temple University, Southeast Missouri State University, as well as various museums, community centers, film festivals, and conferences. |
