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Sex And Gender Diversity Is Growing Across The Us, Georgiann Davis
Sex And Gender Diversity Is Growing Across The Us, Georgiann Davis
Sociology Faculty Research
Christine Hallquist, a transgender woman from Vermont, in 2018 made history as the first openly trans person to ever win the nomination of a major political party for governor. Sex and gender diverse people were once only able to be their authentic selves in gay and lesbian spaces. Today, from Danica Roem in Virginia to Betsy Driver in New Jersey to Hallquist in Vermont, they are running and winning major political posts throughout the United States.
Christine Jorgensen And The Media: Identity Politics In The Early 1950s Press, Emylia N. Terry
Christine Jorgensen And The Media: Identity Politics In The Early 1950s Press, Emylia N. Terry
Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards
“Christine Jorgensen and the Media: Identity Politics in the Early 1950s Press” analyzes America’s first transgender celebrity and the interpretations of her identity by a seemingly celebratory press. Jorgensen, who rose to fame in December 1952, was propelled to stardom partly because of the cultural climate of the 1950s. The first portion of my essay begins by setting the historical context of how gender nonconforming individuals were treated in the press before Jorgensen, and then analyzes Jorgensen’s personal characteristics that also helped make her a media fixture. However, the veracity of Jorgensen’s female identity was doubted by the time she …