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

Harvard HGSE

In this course, we will explore the political and politicized lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer peoples living in the United States since World War II. Centering an intergenerational, intersectional, and coalitional analysis, as well as an historical critique of “progress,” we will focus our attention on the interrelationship between protest (how LGBTQ+ people have come out and organized themselves), politics (how LGBTQ+ people have confronted and…