Queer Nation: LGBTQI+ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United States

Harvard HKS

In this course, we will explore the political and politicized lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex peoples living in the United States, focusing on the period from World War II to the present. Centering an intersectional framework and historical critique of “progress,” we will focus our attention on the interrelationship between protest (how LGBTQI+ people have come out and organized themselves), politics (how LGBTQI+ people have confronted and navigated the…