![]() ![]() I first met Allan Bérubé when he was doing his wonderful slide show on U.S. ![]() Sexuality, for him, was thought and practiced in relation to class, race and gender. Bérubé’s historical work, while centering on gay and queer experiences, always examined the ways in which sexuality, class, race and gender relations are made in and through each other. ![]() Some of his earliest work with the History Project was on women who cross-dressed and passed as men. Instead his remarkable skills grew out of his decade long involvement in the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project and the broader grassroots queer history movement based on developing ways to return our history to our communities. He was not formally trained as a historian. Bérubé’s histories, as he put it, were about the lives of ordinary lesbians and gay men. He left us with major contributions of exciting historical work, but also important unfinished work that needs to be continued.īérubé’s allegiance was not to the academy but to the movement and community. AN INSPIRING AND broad-ranging queer historian, Allan Bérubé died at the age of 61 on December 11, 2007. ![]()
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