Lesbian-Homoville, CO: Relocating the Origins of the Anti-Queer Movement

media release: Jennifer L. Holland is the Sara Louise Welch Chair & the L.R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in histories of gender, sexuality, conservative politics, and the American West. Her current book project, Straightening Out: A History of Anti-Queer Politics in Rural America, tells the story of the anti-LBGTQ+ movement in the American West, explaining how rural places, not suburban ones, became the bedrocks of social conservatism in the US.

Jennifer L. Holland is the Sara Louise Welch Chair and the L.R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in histories of gender, sexuality, conservative politics, and the American West. She is the author of an award-winning book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (2020), which chronicles the intimate and everyday activism of the western social conservatives at the end of the twentieth century. Her current book project, titled Straightening Out: A History of Anti-Queer Politics in Rural America, tells the story of the anti-LBGTQ+ movement in the American West, explaining how rural places, not suburban ones, became the bedrocks of social conservatism in America. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2013.

This event is presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Research on Gender & Women, the Gender & Sexuality Campus Center, and the Department of History at UW-Madison.