This program explores how queer communities come into being through playfulness, fun, performance, friendship, arts, pleasure, attitude, and style. Our spatial frame of reference is the United States; our temporal frame 1850 to the present. Case studies will include the Harlem Renaissance, Drag, Ball Culture, Radical Faeries and an alternative public liberal arts college nestled in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. We will read literature, research history, study visual art, and watch performances that provide insight into how modern ideas about gender and sexuality developed, how people with dissident genders and sexualities came to find each other and create community, and how the mutual joy of those communities can lead to queer thriving.
Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:
4 - Community Studies
8 - Gender and Sexuality Studies
4 - History
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Community service, social service, education, or any endeavor that involves interacting with people who are different from and whom you wish to respect.