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Sexuality Studies New Faculty Lecture Series 2014: Michelle Ann Abate

April 11, 2014
6:30PM - 8:00PM
311 Denney Hall, 164 W 17th Ave.

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Add to Calendar 2014-04-11 18:30:00 2014-04-11 20:00:00 Sexuality Studies New Faculty Lecture Series 2014: Michelle Ann Abate Michelle Ann Abate, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and of English, will give the talk "Learning How to Be the Boy or Girl That You Are”: Me Tarzan, You Jane, The Crusade to ‘Cure’ LGBTQ Youth, and the New Face of the Ex-Gay Movement in the United States. This talk will make the case that the ex-gay movement is reinventing itself as what might be called the pre-gay movement—or, perhaps more accurately, the ex-pre-gay movement, by turning its attention to preventing the emergence of homosexuality in the first place. The primary means for illustrating this shift will be an analysis of the picture book Me Tarzan, You Jane (2011) by Janice Barrett Graham. Co-sponsored by the Department of English. 311 Denney Hall, 164 W 17th Ave. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public


Michelle Ann Abate, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and of English, will give the talk "Learning How to Be the Boy or Girl That You Are”: Me Tarzan, You Jane, The Crusade to ‘Cure’ LGBTQ Youth, and the New Face of the Ex-Gay Movement in the United States.

This talk will make the case that the ex-gay movement is reinventing itself as what might be called the pre-gay movement—or, perhaps more accurately, the ex-pre-gay movement, by turning its attention to preventing the emergence of homosexuality in the first place. The primary means for illustrating this shift will be an analysis of the picture book Me Tarzan, You Jane (2011) by Janice Barrett Graham.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English.

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