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Published April 5, 2004; Category: EVENTS
Jonathan Ned Katz
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The fourth annual Stonewall Lecture, featuring historian Jonathan Ned Katz, will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, in 13 Carpenter Hall. The lecture, "Making Sexual History: A Quarter Century of Work and Questions," is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Katz is the author of Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality; The Invention of Heterosexuality; Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A; and Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary. He was born and grew up in New York, and worked as a textile designer while writing radio documentaries during the 1960s. In 1970 he became involved in the Gay Activist Alliance, and in 1973 he co-founded the Gay Academic Union. He later published Gay American History, a documentary history covering 300 years of same-sex behavior and identity in the United States. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information call 646-2160.
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