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Michelle Ann Abate, "'Learning How to Be the Boy or Girl That You Are': Me Tarzan, You Jane, The Crusade to 'Cure' LGBTQ Youth, and the New Face of the Ex-Gay Movement in the United States."

April 11, 2014
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
311 Denney

This talk will make the case that the ex-gay movement is reinventing itself as what might be called the pre-gay movement-or, perhaps more accurately, the ex-pre-gay movement, by turning its attention to  preventing the emergence of homosexuality in the first place. The primary means for illustrating this shift will be an analysis of the picture book Me Tarzan, You Jane (2011) by Janice Barrett Graham. Co-sponsored by the Department of English.