Looking Like A Lesbian

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How do gender and sexuality affect what we see, and how we see it?
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What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Before queer activism lesbians were often 'apparitional', in the words of literary scholar Terry Castle. And if lesbians themselves are hard to see in the archive, their perspectives are even more elusive. From the 1950s through the 1990s, feminist and lesbian artists, writers, and historians took it upon themselves to build and re-build an archive of queer visuality.
How do gender and sexuality affect what we see, and how we see it? And how does the answer to that question change over time? In this talk, art history professor Louise Siddons will consider the multiple meanings of 'looking like a lesbian', using materials from the British Library and beyond to investigate the 20th-century history of the lesbian gaze.
Louise Siddons is an art historian specializing in American art and the visual culture of modernity. She is Associate Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University and is the 2020-21 recipient of the Fulbright-British Library Eccles Centre Scholar Award.
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Communication and Social Understanding
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Eithne Luibheid brings up an important topic in her reading, “looking Like a Lesbian.” Through this reading, she brings up how easily people are discriminated against, especially when crossing the border. This also brings up how the border patrol looks at certain people and how discriminatory they actually can be. Sara Harb Quiroz, a United States citizen, was traveling from Mexico to Texas in a Taxi and was stopped by an immigration service agent. To the immigration service agent, Sara looked like she was a lesbian, and in 1960, it would have been acceptable for the agent to deport Quiroz out of the country. In fact, in 1960, Quiroz would have been considered to have a psychopathic personality if she was thought to be a lesbian.
The fact that Sara Quiroz “looked” like a lesbian makes you wonder what characteristics make someone look like a lesbian; short hair, baggy clothes, not feminine enough? Basically, someone has to look like an ideal woman, skirt or dress and well maintained, in order to not be considered a lesbian. If Quiroz did look more like a woman, would she have been stopped, or would her skin color still make you question is she was a citizen. In this case, being a United States citizen did not seem to matter. It seemed to matter more if she was or was not a lesbian. Luibheid touches on how people came to be considered a lesbian, gay man, or homosexual. Checkpoints were put into place in order to find out if people who were coming into the country were gay or lesbian. However, these checkpoint were biased in the fact “that they captured males more than females, and Latin Americans and Europeans more that Asians.” The gay or lesbian identities were altered depending on race, gender, religion, class, and even culture. Some immigrants who appeared to be gay or lesbian would often be pulled out and questioned. Out of these immigrants, not all were lesbian or gay, however, most of them were all treated like they were. The immigration service agents were able to rely on the exterior of a person and what they believed them to be than what they actually were. This makes the checkpoints and the agents completely unfair and even denied people of their rights based on a suspicion.
Sara Quiroz was not treated fairly while coming from Mexico into Texas. On the mere fact that she “looked” like a lesbian, should not be proof enough to consider her a lesbian and not let her into the United States, where she holds citizenship.
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