Gay studies
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Gender nonconforming Studies
Queer Americans certainly, James, Stein, Cather, and Baldwin each fled “America.” James (1843-1916) and Stein (1874-1946) spent their adult lives in Europe. Cather (1873-1947) left Nebraska for Greenwich Village after a decade in Pittsburgh, with a judge’s daughter along the way. Baldwin (1924-1987) left Harlem for Greenwich Village, then left the Village for Paris. As sexual subjects and as writers, these four could hardly appear more different; yet, Stein described James as “the first person in literature to find the way to the literary methods of the 20th century,” Cather rewrote James to develop her have subjects and methods, and Baldwin found in James’s writings frameworks for his own. In the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, James, Stein, and Cather witnessed the emergence of modern understandings of homosexuality and made modern literature, each pushing boundaries, always in subtle or dramatic ways. (Stein, for example, managed to parlay the story of her Paris life with Alice B. Toklas into an American bestseller in 1933.) In the second half of the 20th century, Baldwin began to dismantle current
Several courses that emphasize LBGT Studies are already organism offered:
Foundations of Queer Studies: Sexualities, Identities, and Perspectives (WMST 395), began in Fall 2011 by Cathleen Rhodes, is an interdisciplinary study of LGBTQ experiences. It introduced students to personal, cultural, and political aspects of queer being while examining social forces such as heteronormativity, the social construction of gender, and homophobia and their impact on queer lives. Queer Studies focuses on issues of particular importance to LGBTQ people while exploring gender and the social importance it holds in our society. The course also encourages examination of the multiple ways in which sexuality intersects with gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, and ability.
A History of Queer Bodies (ENGL/FLET/WMST 495/595), also taught for the first second in Fall 2011, by Dr. Heidi Schlipphacke, focuses on the discursive film of "queer" bodies in modern Western cultures. This course analyzes categorizations of "queer" and "normal," the conceptions of the body post-Enlightenment, the role contemporary science plays in the rigid categorization of bodies in terms of gender and sexuality, and the p
An Intersectional Study of LGBTQI2+ Identities, Identity, Art, History, and Society
Through the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Behavioral Sciences, the LGBT Studies department focuses on the intersections of sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, ethnicity, socio-economics, global location, religion, and ability. Through the interdisciplinary lenses of queer theory, trans theory, theories of race and ethnicity, feminist theory, and the study of comparative social justice and political movements, our courses inspect the ways that we currently understand and hold historically understood various constructions of sexuality, gender culture and behavior depending upon historic time and global location.
Our Programs
Lesbian, Gay, Double attraction, and Transgender Studies AA Degree
The LGBT Studies Major offers a rigorous intersectional approach to the analyze of Lesbian, Gay, Multi-attracted , Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Two Spirit identities, identity, art, literature politics, history, and society both globally and domestically.
Learn More
Social Justice Studies: General - Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies AA-T
This AA-
LGBTQ+ Studies at San Diego State University is an independent and interdisciplinary program that is housed in the College of Arts and Letters. The program fosters academic excellence, cultural competency, and student management via courses, community internships, international experiences, and faculty mentoring.
Our mission is to advance knowledge in sexual and gender identity, and increase understanding of the diverse cultural, historical, ethnic/racial, and contemporary experiences of people across sexualities. The focus is on the changing nature of homosexual desire, sexual behavior, and same-sex relationships from antiquity to the present.
Courses center on emerging LGBTQ+ subcultures and identities from a global perspective. Throughout the program of study, we consider the full range of genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, classes, physical abilities, religions, and political persuasions that
.