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Queer Theory

Decolonizing Queer

Policing the Planet (Policing the Crisis of Indigenous Lives: An Interview with the Red Nation), Christina Heatherton, 2016
American Indian Politics (Indigenous Peoples are Nations, Not Minorities), David Wilkens (Lumbee) and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Apache), 2018
Queer Indigenous Studies (Unsettling Queer Politics: What Can Non-Natives Study from Two-Spirit Organizing?), Scott Lauria Morgensen, 2011 
Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities (Introduction: Critical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex & Nature), Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Cheyenne, and Arapaho)
Settler Homonationalism: Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Lgbtq+ Modernities, Scott Lauria Morgensen

Biopower/Necropolitics

Society Must Be Defended, Michel Foucault
American Eugenics: Race, Homosexual Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (Introduction), Nancy Ordover
Normal Life: Administrative Aggression, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Administering Gender), Dean Spade
Queer Necropolitics (Introduction), Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman a

Action in Rochester

While grassroots, community movement in the 1980s set the stage for workplace activism in Rochester, employers and employees during the 1990s made it a reality. In 1992, employees at the two largest employers in the City of Rochester formed groups: Gays and Lesbians at Xerox (GALAXe) and the Lambda Network at Kodak (LNAK). They were like siblings, and in 1993 they co-hosted their first annual Holiday Gayla, a celebration for the Rochester Area Queer & Lesbian Business Community. In 1994, the Rochester City Council approved establishing a domestic partnership registry and providing domestic partnership benefits for city employees. In 1995, Xerox extended partial benefits to the domestic partners of its employees, and in 1997, Kodak extended full benefits. As a result of their perform, Out & Equal chose Rochester to host the sixth Out & Equal national conference on LGBTQ workplace issues in 1998, affirming Rochester, Xerox, and Kodak as national role models of LGBTQ workplace equality.1

To learn more about LNAK's and Kodak's history, visit the Remembering the Lambda Network at Kodak exhibit.

1 Le Beau, “Out and Equal &rsqu

LGBTQ+

All are welcome in Rochester, NY! With a rich history of civil rights, it shouldn't enter as a shock that Rochester is among the most welcoming, LGBTQ-friendly metro areas in the U.S., previously ranked 11th in Advocate’s Gayest Cities in America list. It's also one of the most culturally abundant. Rochester has also previously received a perfect score of 100 from the Human Rights Campaign.

Tucked between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes wine region, the tradition of dignity for all runs profound here. Susan B. Anthony's home, a National Historic Landmark, still stands in Rochester and is open to the public. Frederick Douglass established his abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, here. The first statue in the country honoring an African-American still stands in Highland Park. 

From locally-owned coffee shops and restaurants, to nightlife, art, culture, shopping and more, explore all that Rochester’s vibrant and diverse Gay community has to offer. 

Festivals & Events 

  • Rochester Pride: Held annually in July, signature Pride events including the Pride Parade, Pride Festival and the Pride Picnic. Numerous

    It's 7 p.m. on a hot Tuesday night in June, and a couple of men have been in their cars cruising Highland Park since 5:30. One of them, driving a dark blue, late-model Saab, parks at the top of the hill near the Goodman Avenue entrance. The other, a middle-aged man driving a red pick-up, pulls behind it. He gets out, looks around, and treks up the slope. The guy in the Saab gets out and follows. They disappear behind a lush screen of pine and maple trees, undetected by the woman walking her two white terriers and the couple napping in a car.

    Highland Park has long attracted men seeking sex with other men. So have Durand Eastman, GeneseeValley, Ellison, and Mendon. Some men only cruise. Some have casual conversation. But many undertaking into what appear to be private and secluded locations of public places to have quick, anonymous sex.

    In 2003, the MonroeCounty sheriff's department, the agency that patrols most of the parks, arrested 85 men. Last year, it arrested 87. The arrests are usually made in "sweeps" or "stings," pulling in as many as 10 or 15 men at a time.

    Men who seek sex from other men in the park