The Pathos of the Closet and the Generations

Gay Professors and Their Students During and Post Gay Liberation in the United States

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3635855
AutoresHeather Murray (0000-0002-8448-2566)
Ano2015
Volume62
Fascículo5
Páginas644-663
Data de publicação2015-05-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2014.988535
PMID25560645
OpenAlexW2000539369
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas27

This article focuses on gay professor-student relationships in the United States, during and post gay liberation. Exploring personal writings, student periodicals, and academic documents between the late 1960s and the 1990s, I argue that interactions between gay professors and their students illuminate an ambiguous affectionate relationship wherein the closeness was based just as much on different generational sensibilities as the individuals themselves. Further, I show that these relationships suggest a therapeutic potential to education through the articulation of personal knowledge in the classroom, one that was increasingly open to challenge in the 1980s and 1990s

Art · Closet · Coming out · Gay rights · Heteronormativity · Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Liberation · Literature · Male Homosexuality · Pathos · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Women's Liberation · Academic Freedom and Politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society