George Chauncey
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George Chauncey (born 1954)[1] is a professor of history at Columbia University. He is best known as the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940.
Academic career
In 1992, Chauncey spent time serving on the American Council of Learned Societies, a non-profit organization that provides fellowships and scholarships for young aspiring students in history and other educational fields. In 1996 Chauncey also spent time serving on the National Humanities Center, a non-profit organization that focuses on building the study of humanities at a national level.[citation needed]
Between the years 2005 and 2007, Chauncey was elected to serve as a member of both Society of American Historians in 2005, and later to New York Academy of History in 2007.[citation needed]
In his later years, Chauncey spent time working as a consultant on historical research projects as well as lecture series in New York City and Chicago.[citation needed]
Writing
Chauncey’s book
The book was acclaimed [by whom?] for several original findings, among them the malleability of sexual identities, the use of house concerts as covers for sexual activity, a discussion of the "pansy craze", and the relative novelty of the category of "closeted" gay men.
Chauncey wrote a historical defense of
In the 1990s he conducted interviews and collected material for a history of gay New York from the mid-twentieth century to the present. This work has yet to be published.[4]
Recognition
Chauncey’s first national accolade was won in 1987 when he received the Samuel Golieb Fellowship in Legal History from the New York University School of Law. This fellowship awards young law students and historians research support to help fund their projects and literature work.[citation needed]
In 1997, Chauncey was the recipient of the Sprague Todaes Literary Award for his book "Gay New York", which rewards authors who create a powerful piece of work on LGBTQ+ history.[citation needed]
In 2000, Chauncey was the recipient of the first James Brudner Memorial Award in Lesbian and Gay Studies during his time teaching at Yale University. The purpose of this award is to bring the national spotlight to Chauncey's accomplishments and breakthroughs in the LGBTQ+ field of history.[citation needed]
In 2004, Chauncey received the Community Service Award, Lesbian Community Cancer Project in Chicago, which rewarded his work in offering support and one on one conversations with lesbian women battling cancer.[citation needed]
Expert testimony
Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in over thirty major gay rights cases, and was the organizer and lead author of the Historians' Amicus Brief in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which weighed heavily in the Supreme Court's landmark decision overturning the nation's remaining sodomy laws. In that brief, Chauncey argued for the historical specificity of understandings of sodomy, challenging the reasoning in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) that antisodomy laws were an enduring feature of the American legal system. [citation needed]
Chauncey testified as an expert witness in the
Chauncey also served as an expert witness in Romer v. Evans on May 20, 1996 in the state of Colorado. Voters in Colorado chose to instill the 2nd Amendment, which discriminated against members of the LGBTQ+ community by preventing them from receiving judicial or legislative action (protection) from the federal government. A gay civil rights movement ensued, and members of the LGBTQ+ community won the trial against the state of Colorado in a 6-3 decision. It was determined that the 2nd amendment was discriminatory against a certain group, therefore causing the supreme court to overturn the ruling. [citation needed]
Works
- ISBN 0-465-02621-4
- Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality. Basic Books, 2005. 224 pp. ISBN 0-465-00958-1
References
- ^ "The University of Chicago Magazine: August 2003". magazine.uchicago.edu. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ "Chauncey, George | Department of History - Columbia University". history.columbia.edu. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
- ^ "Chauncey, Gregg to leave Yale after 11 years". Retrieved 2018-02-13.
- ^ Chauncey, George (1994). Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books. p. 23.
- ^ Perry v. Schwarzenegger, at 20-21, 29-30, 71, 85, 93, 96, 97, 99-110, 134. Found at on MSNBC media website Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, at pp. 22-23, 31-32, 73, 87, 95, 98, 99, 101-111, 136. Accessed August 4, 2010.
- Richardson, Kalia. 2022. "The Historian George Chauncey Wins the Kluge Humanities Prize."[1]
- This source dives into Chauncey's achievements surrounding his LGBTQ studies.
- Hond, Paul. 2022 "Honoring George Chauncey, a Scholar of Gay History". Columbia Magazine[2]
- This source researches the life of Chauncey, and his work completed as a writer.
- Stack, Brian. Boag, Peter. 2018. "George Chauncey's Gay New York: A view from 25 years later". Cambridge University[3]
- This source provides a relatively non-bias viewpoint of George Chauncey's book Gay New York, and how it was received from an audiences perspective.
- Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. 1999. Lesbian Community Community Cancer Project[4]
- This source provides information regarding Chauncey's time volunteering in the Lesbian Community Community Cancer Project.
- Freedberger, Peter. NYU Law. "Golieb Fellowship in Legal History"[5]
Further reading
External links
- Chauncey's Yale History Department page
- Cover story on Chauncey in the University of Chicago alumni magazine
- Washington Post op-ed "What Gay Studies Taught the Court" on how historians helped overturn Bowers v. Hardwick
- . Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- JSTOR 2952659.
- S2CID 165445652.
- ISBN 978-3-319-15056-7, retrieved 2022-12-09
- ISBN 9780814773260, retrieved 2022-12-09