The Queer Housewives and Husbands of New Jersey

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This Event is now Online Via Zoom.

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After registering on Zoom, you will receive a confirmation email containing all the information on how to join the meeting on Monday, October 4th

We often assume that before marriage equality, we had only “traditional” marriage. But changes to marriage progressed more strangely than we might expect, especially in New Jersey. This program will use court cases to rethink LGBTQ+ rights, marriage, and the law. Cases involving a judge refusing to grant a divorce for a woman after her husband was incarcerated for sodomy, alimony for a transwoman, and custody issues for LGBTQ+ parents will all be explored. Through these court cases, participants can consider how our state was sometimes a haven for LGBTQ+ people in the past, at other times deeply oppressive, and nearly always representative of the forces against which LGBTQ+ people have had to fight.

Alison Lefkovitz is an associate professor in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark. Her book, Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women’s Liberation, came out with University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. Her work can also be found in the Washington Post, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the Law and History Review.

This program is part of our One Book, One Cherry Hill series. Funding for One Book, One Cherry Hill is made possible with support from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and Friends of the Cherry Hill Public Library.

Event Type(s): One Book One Cherry Hill

Age Group(s): Adults (18+)

Presenter: Alison Lefkovitz, Ph.D.

Ann Kennedy

(856) 903-1223

akennedy@chplnj.org

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