"Cruisin' the Castro": Tourism and Neoliberal Consumption in San Francisco
Nan Alamilla Boyd, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
San Francisco State University
This lecture will examine the history of tourism in San Francisco, with a focus on the neoliberal commodification of racialized and sexualized neighborhoods.
Nan Alamilla Boyd is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses in the history of sexuality, queer theory, historical methodology, and urban tourism. Her book, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (University of California Press, 2003), charts the rise of gay and lesbian politics in San Francisco and draws from the 45 oral histories she conducted as part of her research. Her second book, Bodies of Evidence, the Practice of Queer Oral HIstory (Oxford, 2012), co-edited with Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, pairs fourteen oral history excerpts alongside commentaries by oral historians. Nan has also been a long-time volunteer at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco and founded the Historical Society’s oral history project in 1992. Her lecture draws on research for her current book project on San Francisco tourism.
CSGS will offer a special workshop for faculty and students on Thursday, May 30, 12-1:30 pm:
"Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History" http://gendersexuality.uchicago.edu/events/calendar_detail.shtml?guid=CAL-402882f8-3d402a65-013d-5fa26fe6-0000064beventscalendar@uchicago.edu
Sponsored by the project, Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles: A History of LGBTQ Life at the University of Chicago and co-sponsored by the Office of LGBTQ Student Life.
Date: May 29, 2013
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Date: May 29, 2013
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
