Queer Studies

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Laurie Marhoefer
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Latest News

Lecture: Transgender Identities and the Police in Nazi Germany by Dr. Laurie Marhoefer (May 7, 2019)
New History Project: LGBTQ Activism in Seattle (October 6, 2016)
Afsaneh Najmabadi to Present Public Stice Lecture on Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (December 20, 2013)

Related Research

Hannah Frydman, “Reading Incognito: Periodicals, Sapphic Fictions, and Lesbian Communication," Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes 26, no. 1 (2022): 35-55, https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2022.2038515.
Marhoefer, Laurie. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love. University of Toronto Press, 2022. Print.
“Wurden lesbische Frauen im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt? Mikrogeschichte und der Begriff der “Verfolgtengruppe.” Invertito: Jarbuch für die Geschichte der Homosexualitäten Rüdiger Lautmann and Stefan Micheler, eds. (2019)
"Was the Homosexual Made White? Race, Empire, and Analogy in Gay and Trans Thought in Twentieth-Century Germany," Gender and History (March 2019)
"Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History," blog post, Notches (June 2018)
McKenna, Kevin. "Safer Sex: Gay Politics and the Remaking of Liberalism in Seattle, 1966-1995." PhD diss., University of Washington, 2017.
“Lesbianism, Transvestitism, and the Nazi State: A Microhistory of a Gestapo Investigation, 1939-1943.” The American Historical Review 121:4 (2016): 1167-1195.
“‘The book was a revelation, I recognized myself in it’: Lesbian Sexuality, Censorship, and the Queer Press in Weimar-era Germany.” Journal of Women’s History 27:2 (2015): 62-86.
“Homosexuality and Theories of Culture.” In Was ist Homosexualität? Forschungsgeschichte, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Perspektiven, edited by Jennifer V. Evans, Florian Mildenberger, Rüdiger Lautmann, Jakob Pastötter. Hamburg: Männerschwarm, 2014: 255-269.
“Degeneration, Sexual Freedom, and the Politics of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933.” German Studies Review 34 No. 3 (2011): 529-550.