Come visit the University of Akron’s Sociology Club for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with LuSter Singleton! LuSter will discuss the intersections and departures of both the gay and Civil Rights Movement.

In the early 2000s, LuSter disclosed their long-time struggle with finding a place of belonging within the so-called “gay movement” and the civil rights movement. With both having supported or encouraged notions of gender binaries, misogyny, transphobia, and racial fetishization, Singleton found it difficult to get fully ‘settled’ in either camp. Singleton shares this history to engage discussions on cancel culture, Black Lives Matter, and disappearing lesbian visibility and asks whether history is repeating itself.

This event is a part of Ohio Humanities’ United We Stand initiative.

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