"Crimes that Changed the LGBT World": Claiming Kitty Genovese as a Queer Icon

Friday, January 3, 2014: 3:50 PM
Madison Room B (Marriott Wardman Park)
Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Marcia Gallo will look at the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, a symbol of urban apathy towards violence and crime who in the 2000s became a queer icon. 
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