Historical Perspectives on LGBTIQ2S+ Lives and Gender Diversity

This panel-discussion will feature UM Regents Professor Anya Jabour, author of a forthcoming book on sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis, whose 1929 book FACTORS IN THE SEX LIFE OF 2200 WOMEN (https://theconversation.com/how-a-survey-of-over-2-000-women-in-the-1920s-changed-the-way-americans-thought-about-female-sexuality-236927) revealed that between one-third and one-half of American women engaged in same-sex relationships; Brandy Schillace, author of THE INTERMEDIARIES (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324036319), a new book on Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science in Weimar Germany, told from the perspective of transgender patient Dora Richter; and Sierra Kirk, a researcher for a new historical exhibit on gender diversity in Montana from 1800 to 2000, with special attention to Hirschfeld's surprising Montana connections. (If funding permits, the panel also will include Adria Jawort on Montana Two-Spirit history.) The panel will be accompanied by the pop-up exhibit, tentatively titled "Crossings: Two Centuries of Gender Nonconformity and Gender Diversity in Montana."