the history of sexuality in talk
"Our Struggle for a History of Sexualities" was the title of a lecture delivered on April 2 by visiting professor Jonathan Ned Katz, an expert on gay American history and one of the founders of the field of lesbian and gay studies.
Katz delivered the talk on the occasion of receiving the Brudner Prize, an annual honor bestowed by Yale on a leading scholar in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies.
In his lecture, Katz discussed his research on the same-sex bonds in the life of philanthropist John William Sterling (Class of 1864), whose $15 million gift to Yale in 1918 was at the time the largest non-founding gift ever made to a university by a private individual. While Sterling was a lifelong bachelor, contended Katz, his diaries reveal that as an undergraduate at Yale, he slept with other Yale gentlemen. Thereafter, for almost 50 years, Sterling shared his life with another man, James O. Bloss, said the visiting scholar.
Katz told the audience that in his research, he seeks to illuminate the roles that gay and lesbian individuals have played throughout history. His work has led to such trailblazing books as "Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.," "The Gay/Lesbian Almanac" and "Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality."
The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies brought Katz to campus this year to teach a class on the lesbian and gay history of New Haven and Yale.
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