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Introducing elisechenier.com
I am pleased to announce the launch of elisechenier.com, a website that brings together my diverse research projects, my teaching and supervisory activities, my public speaking and media activities, and my blog posts. It was a great pleasure working with web developer and graphic designer Laura Eagin who I first met at Camp Tech where I took a course on search engine optimization. I think she did…
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The “Sex” in Sexual Revolution
The “Sex” in Sexual Revolution
One of the best things about coming out as a lesbian in 1989 was that for the first time in my life wanting and having sex was a positive, not a negative, value. As a teenager I thoroughly enjoyed heterosexual sex, but I struggled with deeply internalized Christian values that held me a sinner of the worst kind, and was subject to the cruel and unrelenting judgment of my peers. It is a very true…
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Love Dares You: On David Bowie
Love Dares You: On David Bowie
David’s Bowie’s death is a loss felt by many today, especially those who grew up feeling like a kook or a freak. Among them are queer folks like myself, who were drawn to the space Bowie created to genderfuck, as well as to his music, which helped us construct worlds where we would feel at home. Today the editor of the popular history of sexuality blog NOTCHES published a list five sources to…
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What will the future bring?
What will the future bring?
We are now approaching that annual ritual when many of us reflect upon the year behind us and anticipate the one coming. We scratch out a list of intentions, hoping to will into existence the future we think we want. In the late 1960s, the future was the source of tremendous anxiety for even the most comfortable middle-class Americans, as is evident in the popularity of Alvin Toffler’s 1970…
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#BlackLesbianLivesWereComplicated
In 1969 a woman named Eleanor Hunter wrote an extraordinary essay for Dr. Clayton, the instructor of Sociology 290 at a California college. Titled “Double Indemnity: The Negro Lesbian in the ‘Straight’ White World,” Hunter offers readers a window into the complicated world African American lesbians navigated. It is impossible for Black women to be out lesbians in their own community, she argues,…
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Struggling with Gender in the Early 1970s: An Archival Posting in Honour of Leslie Feinberg's Birthday
Struggling with Gender in the Early 1970s: An Archival Posting in Honour of Leslie Feinberg’s Birthday
Leslie Feinberg, author of the fictional book Stone Butch Blues, showed us a side of 1960s lesbian butch culture that had not been well known: a good number of butches either transitioned, or experimented with hormones. Feinberg’s book places the struggles ze and zer friends had with sexuality and gender, particularly as the women’s and gay liberation movements took aim at what they called “role…
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One step forward, ten steps backward? #LoveWins #MarriageEquality
While the decision today by SCOTUS is a huge victory for lesbians and gays in the United States, it is troubling how Justice Kennedy’s decision elevates marriage to the level of the supernatural. “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once…
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Congratulations, America! Today the Supreme Court of the United States voted 5-4 to prohibit states from banning same-sex marriage.
Husband? Wife? What's In a Name?
Getting married and calling oneself married – are they different things, or just two sides of the same coin? My research on same-sex marriages in the 50s, 60s and 70s is driven by a desire to understand what draws people to the act of saying “I do,” so I am most interested in wedding ceremonies such as this one between Millie and Jean Carbollo in 1977. This week’s archival adventures at the New…
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Were same-sex weddings in Philadelphia a "thing"?
The last time I went on an archives trip for this project it was to the ONE institute Archives in Los Angeles where I had the good fortune of being the first to see an amazing set of photos of a wedding ceremony that took place in Philadelphia in the mid-1950s. You can read the fascinating story of how they came to be at the ONE Institute archives here. This week I am at Cornell carrying on with…
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Historian comments on Ireland's Same-Sex Marriage Referendum
For years I have complained that social historians are all to rarely called upon to comment on current events. Well, I got called. Truth is they didn’t know I am a historian, so that might explain why, but I got my opportunity to offer my wise and thoughtful (!) reflections on the meaning of Ireland’s referendum. Here it is, spot the historical depth if you can! The day before the referendum.…
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Sex Workers Rights at a Historic Crossroads
Sex Workers Rights at a Historic Crossroads
After spending the spring working on an online archives and teaching tool – check out the results at interracialintimacies.org soon! – I am back to working on my book on same-sex marriage in the 50s, 60s and 70s in the United States, and not a moment too soon. Out in the contemporary world, the big news in Canada on the sexual justice front is the overturning of laws regulating the sex trade and…
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Update from Elise Chenier: Research’s Circuitous Route
This past weekend Elise flew to Boston on a last-minute research trip. Unfortunately in the rush to get to the archives she left her computer at the airport security check point. This Monday she sends a pictogram to explain research’s circuitous route.
Confiscated gay wedding photos from the 1950s.
[Image 1 of 2 Description: two reasonably young men in suits stand at a wedding cake, cutting it together]
[Image 2 of 2 Description: 5 men stand together in V: at the center, an officiant holding a large book. On both sides of him, the grooms and their best men. A six th man in a suit, also holding a book, is in the background on the right].
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This past week I met with Vancouver’s queer seniors writing collective Quirk-e to talk about a draft of an article I recently completed with the title: “Freak Wedding! Marriage as Postwar Lesbian Pleasure Practice.” The article was inspired by the headline of a 1957 tabloid story about a butch...
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Read about Elise’s encounter with Troy Perry and the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) in her new blog post!
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