'Out to Lunch' discusses transgender history
By Scott Gardreau
Campus Correspondent
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
http://www.dailycampus.com/news/out-to-lunch-discusses-transgender-history-1.2014502On Wednesday, the Rainbow Center held a lecture titled "Transgender History: Absent, Appropriated, or Obscured?" as part of its "Out to Lunch" lecture series. Delving into more than 500 years of history, the event intended to inform listeners about the lives of significant transgender individuals.
The lecture set out to address questions such as, "To what extent can transgender people be said to have a history before the development of these identities?" and "How has what it means to be gender nonconforming or gender different changed over time and developed differently in different cultures?"
Speaking at the event was Dr. Ze Beemyn, director of the UMass Amherst Stonewall Center and co-editor of five books, including "Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology." His most recent work, "The Lives of Transgender People," was written with Dr. Sue Rankin and is to be published by Columbia University Press.
