Webinar: Dr. William Leap

In a virtual lecture:
“Language Before Stonewall”
October 14, 2020
4:30pm – 5:45pm MST
Sponsored by Boise State Gender Studies

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Dr. Leap’s latest book, Language Before Stonewall, “Explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely attested in the United States during the years preceding the police raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969.” Dr. Leap’s distinguished career in public anthropology has included work with American Indian tribes, engagements with language, sexuality, and HIV politics in the urban US and urban South Africa, studies of gay language and “gay men’s English” as local and global formations, and multiple projects designed to build alliances between dissident gendered and sexual voices. Dr. Leap is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Language and Sexuality and has published seven books and edited collections and numerous essays in language and sexuality studies Dr. Leap will offer some remarks about studying language and history and discuss what he learned about language use before Stonewall. The lecture will be followed by a question and answer session with the students from GEND 380.