Join in an in-person event with Cornell University professor Stephen Vider for a discussion of his new book “The Queerness of Home.”
BOOK DISCUSSION DETAILS
Fri, February 18, 2022 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Strand Book Store
828 Broadway
3rd Floor, Rare Book Room
New York, NY 10003
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About the Author:
Stephen Vider is assistant professor of history and director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University.
About the Book:
From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics have almost exclusively centered on public activism. In The Queerness of Home, Stephen Vider turns the focus inward, showing that the intimacy of domestic space has been equally crucial to the history of postwar LGBTQ life.
Beginning in the 1940s, LGBTQ activists looked increasingly to the home as a site of connection, care, and cultural inclusion. They struggled against the conventions of marriage, challenged the gendered codes of everyday labor, reimagined domestic architecture, and contested the racial and class boundaries of kinship and belonging. Retelling LGBTQ history from the inside out, Vider reveals the surprising ways that the home became, and remains, a charged space in battles for social and economic justice, making it clear that LGBTQ people not only realized new forms of community and culture for themselves—they remade the possibilities of home life for everyone.
