Language, Performance and Invisibility: African American LGBT Intersections of Community, Religion and Spirituality

Location: Butler Board Room, 6th floor Butler Pavilion, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington DC 20016.

This is a special session of the XVIIth Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics, February 12th-14th, 2010. The papers in this session examine how African American LGBTQ people speak about their connections with components of the larger Black communities with which they are a part. Of particular interest are their connections to religious institutions, and efforts to maintain continuity between sexuality and African American spiritual traditions. No admission fee. An accessible facility. Sign language interpreters on-site. Directions to campus and information re: complementary parking can be found at www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages