Session Details

Friday, 07 January

208. Queer Los Angeles

10:15–11:30 a.m., Plaza III, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Gay Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: Christopher Looby, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

1. “‘The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy’: Anxiety over Sexual Liberation and Hedonism in Big Sur,” Philip Longo, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

2. “‘The Relentless Pursuit of Integrity’: Leland Hickman, Joseph Hansen, John Rechy, and the Social Contract of the Los Angeles Independent Bookstores,” William Mohr, California State Univ., Long Beach

3. “From Los Angeles, USA, to Istanbul, Turkey: Melrose Place, Media, and the Transnational Gay Identity,” Serkan Gorkemli, Univ. of Connecticut, Stamford

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