WG 223 Introduction to Gay & Lesbian Studies
		WG 223 Introduction to Gay & Lesbian Studies Schedule Day Time Location Monday 11:25-12:15 FIC FR 2 Wednesday 11:25-12:15 FIC FR 2 Thursday screenings 7:30-10:30 Warner Hemi Friday 11:25-12:15 FIC FR 2 SS Sergius and Bacchus, 7th Century Icon

Tentative Class Schedule:

WEEK ONE	History: The Ancient World 7 Feb. Introduction, definitions 9 Feb. Read Jagose, Queer Theory, 7-16 on essentialism/constructionism and Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, Chs. 1-3 (3-87) 10 Feb. Same-Sex Marriage Forum, 7:30, Dana Auditorium 11 Feb. Boswell, Chs. 4-6, discussion of the forum
WEEK TWO	14 Feb. Boswell 10-12 and Hidden from History: Boswell, Halperin, Padgug (on reserve in book & xerox) History: 20th Century America 16 Chauncey, Gay New York, Introduction; Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Chs. 1 & 2 17 Moss, Who's Renting These Boys? 4:30, Sunderland 110 (read Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex" in LGSR) 18 Chauncey 1-5 (33-130), discussion of the talk
WEEK THREE	21 Chauncey 6-8 (131-226) Jagose, Queer Theory, 1-29 23 Chauncey 9-10 (227-300); Faderman 3 & 5 24 Arthur Dong / Allan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire [Winter Carnival]
WEEK FOUR	28 D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in LGSR Faderman 6-8 Stonewall 1 Mar. Duberman, Stonewall, Chs. 4 & 5 Jagose, Queer Theory, 30-57 2 Mar. Nigel Finch, Stonewall 3 Duberman, 6 & 7
WEEK FIVE	Queer Culture 6 Mar. **History paper due**, start Russo, Celluloid Closet to p. 125 8 Celluloid Closet to p. 245 9 Robert Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, The Celluloid Closet 10 discussion of the film, start reading Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
WEEK SIX	13 Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray Dollimore, "Different Desires," in LGSR See Oscariana! 15 Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Book 1 (to 118) 16 Rose Troche, Go Fish 17 Hall, Well of Loneliness, Book 2 (121-205) Newton, "The Mythic Mannish Lesbian" on reserve Guest lecture by Dean Maria Trumpler [SPRING BREAK]
WEEK SEVEN	27 Hall, Well of Loneliness (to the end) 29 Cunningham, The Hours (to 79) 30 Todd Haynes, Poison 31 Cunningham, The Hours (81-139)
WEEK EIGHT	3 April Cunningham, The Hours (to the end) 5 Lorde, Zami 6 Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied 7 Lorde, Zami
WEEK NINE	10 Lorde, Zami Lorde, "The Uses of the Erotic," in LGSR 12 Kushner, Angels in America, I 13 Cheryl Dunye, Watermelon Woman 14 **Culture papers / presentations due**
WEEK TEN	Queer Theory 17 Culture presentations continued, discussion of Watermelon Woman 19 Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Pts. 1-3 (you may want to revisit Jagose, Queer Theory, Ch. 2) 21 Jagose, Queer Theory, 58-132
WEEK ELEVEN	24 Foucault, History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Pts. 4-5 Halperin, "Is There a History of Sexuality?" in LGSR Guest lecture by Prof. Marc Witkin, Classics 26 Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, Introduction: Axiomatic, 1-63 27 Susan Muska & Greta Olafsdottir, The Brandon Teena Story 28 Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, 67-90 (and 131-181)
WEEK TWELVE	1 May Butler, Gender Trouble, 1-34 and 128-149 and Gilbert Herdt, "Under the Rainbow: Queer Youth and Seniors ­ The Oppression of Young and Old" Munroe Lecture Hall, 4:30 3 Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" Case, "Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic" Wittig, "One is not Born a Woman" all in LGSR 5**Queer Theory paper due**