LGBT 220   Exploration in LGBTQ Studies

Explores the lives, experiences, and representations of LGBTQ persons, those who identify or are identified as transgressive in terms of their sexuality and/or gender expression. Particular emphases may vary, but topics typically explore LGBTQ communities and families, cultures, and subcultures; histories, institutions, and literatures; and/or economic and political lives. Selected topics serve to expose complex cultural forces that continue to shape sexuality and regulate its various expressions. The course promotes the examination of new theories and methodologies in relation to established disciplines as it underscores the generation of new knowledge within traditional fields of scholarship. By examining sexualities, students gain an understanding of and respect for other differences in human lives such as age, ability, class, ethnicity, gender, race, and religion.

The Fall 2019 offering of LGBT 220 will continue the work of developing the Queer Activism at Colgate digital history project by focusing attention and coursework on collecting testimonials and oral histories. Contributions will enhance the digital timeline created by students in Fall 2018, which can be found at http://libguides.colgate.edu/c.php?g=59017&p=6695857