FORUM FRIDAYS: VIRTUAL VIRGINIA FORUM TALKS
Family Values Rhetoric & the Struggle for LGBTQ Equality in Virginia
Friday, September 17, 2021 from 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Online
Free, but registration required.
Join us for a series of virtual presentations on Virginia history and
culture from scholars across the state. This series offers some of the most
compelling sessions that had been proposed for the 2020 Virginia Forum
conference, which was cancelled due to the pandemic. The annual event
brings together teachers, students, and professionals interested in
Virginia history and culture to present, discuss, and reconsider the story
of the commonwealth. Free and open to the general public, this
collaboration with the Library of Virginia will share the online sessions
with a wider audience. Events are scheduled for July 23, August 6, August
20, and September 17, 2021.
On September 17, professors Amy Bertsch, Charles H. Ford, and Jeffrey L.
Littlejohn offer a new perspective on contemporary Virginia history as they
discuss the family values rhetoric of the 20th century and the way it
affected members of the LGBTQ community. Bertsch will explore how newspaper
reporters, community members, and legal figures perceived and depicted
gender nonconforming African Americans in the years before queer liberation
and the civil rights movement. Ford will then examine the infamous *Bottoms
v. Bottoms* case in which a woman sued her own lesbian daughter for custody
of her grandchild. And, finally, Littlejohn will analyze the legal campaign
for marriage equality in Virginia with a focus on historical arguments that
linked the ban on same-sex marriage to Virginia’s history of racial and
gender discrimination.
For more information, contact Ashley Ramey at [log in to unmask] or
804.692.3001.
Register Here <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bSXu483iQViYU7YP8ObuUw>
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