Other News
Apr 11, 2024: Community Meeting: Sea Level Rise Adaptation for Outer Bay and Agate Beach Areas on Lopez Island
Mar 7, 2024: DRAFT Richardson Marsh Preserve Stewardship and Management Plan Now Open for Public Comment
Dec 5, 2023: County Council Member Jane Fuller and Senator Liz Lovelett to Host Public Meeting on Lopez
Nov 3, 2023: County and Town Send Open Letter to State Officials Regarding Impacts of Poor Ferry Service
Sep 29, 2023: Conservation Land Bank Announces Special Meeting to Discuss Watmough Bay Preserve Addition
Sep 14, 2023: The mobile dental van is coming to Lopez! // ¡La camioneta dental móvil ya llega a López!
Aug 22, 2023: San Juan County Adopts 32-Hour Work Week in the Name of Fiscal Health, Recruitment, and Islander Wellness
May 25, 2023: Recap of Lopez Neighborhood Meeting Regarding the Relocation of Public Works Facilities
May 23, 2023: District 3 Councilmember Jane Fuller Opens Office on Lopez and Hosts Community Conversation
Apr 17, 2023: Give Lopez Starts April 17th - A two week fundraiser benefiting 15 Lopez Island Non-Profits
Sep 22, 2022: Interim Watmough Preserve Addition Stewardship and Management Plan Now Open for Public Comment
Queers in Unexpected Places: Searching for (and Finding) Gender and Sexual Non-Conformity in the Rural and Early PNW
Mar 11, 2024
By Lopez Island Historical Society & Museum
Mar 14, 2024, 6:30 - 8:30pm, Lopez Center for Community & the Arts, 204 Village Rd
Join us this Thursday, March 14, at 6:30PM, for Queers in Unexpected Places: Searching for (and Finding) Gender and Sexual Non-Conformity in the Rural and Early PNW with Peter Boag at the Lopez Center for Community & the Arts, 204 Village Rd.
Professor Peter Boag’s research and writing has helped explode the long-held popular belief that queer people have either not existed, or were not much tolerated in rural areas, especially in the mythic space of the “Old West.”
In this presentation, Boag will share his thoughts on the historical origins of this misplaced conviction and the stories of varied queer people who appeared in unexpected rural places in the early Pacific Northwest.
Peter Boag grew up in Portland, Oregon, and today is professor of history at Washington State University in Vancouver. His contributions to regional queer history include the book Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (2003), the award-winning volume Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past (2011), and the co-curated and award-winning 2021 exhibit at the Washington State Historical Society entitled “Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West.”
Suggested Donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Professor Peter Boag’s research and writing has helped explode the long-held popular belief that queer people have either not existed, or were not much tolerated in rural areas, especially in the mythic space of the “Old West.”
In this presentation, Boag will share his thoughts on the historical origins of this misplaced conviction and the stories of varied queer people who appeared in unexpected rural places in the early Pacific Northwest.
Peter Boag grew up in Portland, Oregon, and today is professor of history at Washington State University in Vancouver. His contributions to regional queer history include the book Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (2003), the award-winning volume Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past (2011), and the co-curated and award-winning 2021 exhibit at the Washington State Historical Society entitled “Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West.”
Suggested Donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds.
