Podcast appearances and mentions of esther newton

A fitting quest for Pride Month, Esther Newton's personal and professional struggles mirror sixty years of LGBTQ+ history. In the mid-1950s, catapulted out of a liberal household in New York to a rigidly-gendered southern California high school where girls were frilly and feminine, Esther was, in her own words, “a failure as a girl.” She knew she was different—a “homosexual,” as such deviants were then called.  Alone as a teenager, fearing she had no chance at a normal life, Esther found comfort in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa. “It showed me the culture of the 50s and 60s was just one among thousands and thousands.”Like Mead, Esther earned her PhD in cultural anthropology. She dared to observe and write her dissertation on drag queens, a culture much closer to home. She wrote scholarly papers on “stone butches,” and how they had sex. She outed herself and became more of an activist in her collection of essays, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay.  It was “career suicide,” she says of her early work in the field, but Esther seems to have the last word in her memoir, My Butch Career, and on screen, in the 2022 documentary, Esther Newton Made Me Gay.  Today, a new generation looks up to her for her courage and foresight.You can view the trailer for Esther Newton Made Me Gay on her website as well as links to her writing:  https://www.Esther-Newton.com . Crow's Feet is grateful to Jean Carlomusto, director of Esther Newton Made Me Gay, and Women Make Movies, the distributor of the film, for allowing us to use excerpts. Access the full documentary via Kanopy, if your local library subscribes, or by contacting the distributor: orders@wmn.com Support the Show.

podDIVA is off nibbling mince pies with Sapphic Claus this week, but we didn't want to leave you with empty stockings!A Gentleman Jack bonanza!Featuring the married folk duo Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow, creators of THAT theme tune!We're celebrating this smash HBO / BBC TV show in all its sapphic glory!With star Suranne Jones on this month's DIVA cover.Hear amazing tales of love, self-actualization, joy and music-making that Gentleman Jack has inspired.Including contributions from Patricia Esgate, Neve Elizabeth, Liv Woodward, Meg Maguire, Jill Liddington, Donna Raney, Esther Newton and Sarah Wingrove.podDIVA: Queers for your EarsWherever you are in the world.Produced and co-edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVAAdditional editing by the awesome Nic Crosara.Get in touch: editorial@divamag.co.ukThis episode originally aired April 2022 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This show is made possible by you!  To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate  Thank you for your continued support!Holly Hughes and Esther Newton are radical in their fields and a couple for more than 30 years. In this Pride special, they talk with Laura about the anti-LGBTQ, anti-feminist backlash we're seeing today and their own experiences making ground-breaking work and surviving unfriendly times thanks to their queer kinship ties. Hughes is a writer and performer probably best known for being one of the artists targeted by the religious right in the culture wars of the 1990s. Esther Newton is a pioneering anthropologist and the subject of the recent documentary film ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY, which explores her introduction to gay life in the 1950s and its impact on her field and her life's work. Hughes and Newton are cultural icons, dog agility enthusiasts and without a doubt makers of history. What can this long-lived lesbian couple teach us about community survival? Tune in to find out why love, community and kinship are essential for all of our survival, plus a commentary from Laura.“Some of the arguments that [the Republican Party] used 30 years ago, that we were supposedly attacking children and we were a cabal of child pornographers and pedophiles . . . They haven't really bothered to update it. They're concerned about a stigmatized group that begins to have the means to talk to a larger community.” - Holly Hughes“Traditionally, primary ties were supposed to be ‘blood family.' Gay people have built structures outside of that . . . There's always going to be gay and trans people because as an anthropologist, I'm aware that we're found all over the world in many, many cultures. It's not that they'll be able to stamp out the phenomenon, but they can do a lot of damage . . . We have to maintain those ties. This is critical.” - Esther NewtonGuests:Holly Hughes: Performer & Writer; Professor, University of MichiganEsther Newton: Professor of Anthropology, Founder & Leading Scholar LGBTQ Studies; Author, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America & My Butch Career: A Memoir Full Show Notes are located HERE.  They include related episodes, articles, and more to dive deeper.Music In the Middle:   “Mirage” by WhatItDo Archive Group from their album ‘Palace of a Thousand Sounds' released on Record Kicks. 

Legend-alarm! We have queer anthropology's parent on the podcast: Prof Esther Newton joins me to talk about queer spaces, drag shows, lesbian festivals, and about how all the lesbians ended up in Cherry Grove. Esther explains why every queer person should experience being in the majority at least once in their life and how this might allow you to see things you have never quite seen before. She talks about her personal relationship to queer spaces, communities and research and about why everyone's so into Gentleman Jack.Still looking for the cherry on top of Cherry Grove? Check out Esther's work here (https://www.esther-newton.com) and follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and Twitter. Works by Esther:Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (Prentice Hall, 1972; University of Chicago Press, 1978)Womenfriends with Shirley Walton (Friends Press, 1976)"The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9.4 (1984): 557-575.Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town (Duke UP, 1993)Margaret Mead Made me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Duke UP, 2000)My Butch Career: A Memoir (Duke UP, 2018) Other References: Judith ButlerChicago School @someprefercakeJean Carlomustohttps://www.esthernewtonmademegay.com/Queering Desire (forthcoming collection, Routledge, 2023)Colorado SpringsJack Parlett's Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise (Granta Books, 2022)“Older Lesbians” with Jane Traies https://www.spreaker.com/episode/51171899ProvincetownAnne Lister Birthday WeekGentleman Jack (Season 1)Jill Livington's Female Fortune and Nature's DomainSally WainwrightShibden After Dark PodcastLeanne Mertzman and Mary Schwartz The L Word Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:Where did Esther Newton's research journey start?Which event caused the lesbian community in Cherry Grove to grow? Have you heard of similar dynamics in other contexts? Which majority queer spaces other than Cherry Grove do we mention in the episode? Can you think of others?Why does Esther find that Anne Lister is such an important figure in queer history? When it comes to queer rights, how can things get better and worse at the same time?

A Gentleman Jack bonanza!Featuring the married folk duo Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow, creators of THAT theme tune!As Season 2 of this smash HBO / BBC tv show launches, we're celebrating all its sapphic glory!With stars Suranne Jones and Sophie Rundle on this month's DIVA cover and Sally Wainwright on the glossy pages in between, we know how much GJ means to you.Now hear amazing tales of love, self-actualization, joy and music-making that Gentleman Jack has inspired.Including contributions from Patricia Esgate, Neve Elizabeth, Liv Woodward, Meg Maguire, Jill Liddington, Donna Raney, Esther Newton and Sarah Wingrove.podDIVA: Queers for your EarsWherever you are in the world.Produced and co-edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVAAdditional editing by the awesome Nic Crosara.Get in touch: editorial@divamag.co.ukpodDIVA will be back after a short summer break. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Veteran filmmakers, honorees and activists Dale Dickie, Jean Carlomusto, Esther Newton and Jay Critchley talk with  Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ at the 24th annual Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) press luncheon that took place at Lands End Inn Provincetown, Massachusetts. First we spoke with actress Dale Dickie who was being honored with PIFF's 2022 Excellence in Acting Award. Dale is a superbly talented veteran of film, television and the theater with over 60 film credits. Dale talked about her leading role in the feature film “A Love Song” that premiered at Sundance and won the John Schlesinger Narrative Award at PIFF. “A Love Song” is about two childhood sweethearts Faye (Dale Dickie) and Lito (Wes Studi) now both widowed who share a night by a lake in the mountains. Reuniting after 40 years the pair share childhood memories make small talk and shelter together from loneliness. Dale a fierce LGBTQ ally also addressed our LGBTQ issues and her own survival in the entertainment industry. Then we chatted with director Jean Carlomusto a filmmaker, activist and interactive media artist whose film “Esther Newton Made Me Gay” made its North American Premiere at the festival and won the Warner Bros. Discovery Audience Award / Best Documentary Feature at PIFF. She was joined by the subject of her film anthropologist and author Esther Newton who throughout her career has questioned and challenged the status quo on gender, sexuality and anthropological methods. Her work has inspired generations of scholars to pursue research in what would eventually become the field of LGBTQ and Gender Studies. Esther talked about her work and what she hopes the film will accomplish and then gave us her spin on our LGBTQ issues. We concluded our montage with Jay Critchley a visual, conceptual and performance artist whose work and environmental activism has traversed the globe. Jay was honored in 2017 for his commitment to PIFF and to Provincetown. Jay's 2022 PIFF short film selection “Cheeky: Not For Tea Dance” edited by Vanessa Vartabedian can be viewed virtually at PIFF now through June 26th.   The Provincetown Film Society (PFS), which began as the Provincetown International Film Festival in 1999 is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to showcasing new achievements in independent film and honoring the work of emerging as well as acclaimed directors, producers and actors. Their mission is articulated through three primary activities: the annual Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), their year-round theater operation of the Water's Edge Cinema and the Gabrielle A. Hanna Provincetown Film Institute for film and media artist residencies and conferences. As a substantial contributor to the economic and creative vitality of America's oldest art colony PFS is dedicated to becoming a sustainable year-round cultural organization that brings film education, genre-specific festivals and cultural partnerships to the outer Cape.    For More Info…   LISTEN: 600+ LGBTQ Chats @OUTTAKE VOICES

A Gentleman Jack bonanza!Featuring the married folk duo Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow, creators of THAT theme tune!As Season 2 of this smash HBO / BBC tv show launches, we're celebrating all its sapphic glory!With stars Suranne Jones and Sophie Rundle on this month's DIVA cover and Sally Wainwright on the glossy pages in between, we know how much GJ means to you.Now hear amazing tales of love, self-actualization, joy and music-making that Gentleman Jack has inspired.Including contributions from Patricia Esgate, Neve Elizabeth, Liv Woodward, Meg Maguire, Jill Liddington, Donna Raney, Esther Newton and Sarah Wingrove.podDIVA: Queers for your EarsWherever you are in the world.Produced and co-edited by Rachel Shelley with love and support from #TeamDIVAAdditional editing by the awesome Nic Crosara.Get in touch: editorial@divamag.co.uk Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author Esther Newton joins Johnda Boyce and host Elizabeth Andersen to talk about My Butch Career, her memoir that was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity during a particularly intense […] The post Sandra Moran Book Club-Esther Newton appeared first on KKFI.

Esther Newton talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ about her book “My Butch Career A Memoir” that addresses her gender identity and exploration during a particularly intense time of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century. Newton’s story is compelling, disarming and at times carnal as she struggles to write, teach and find love. From being molested as a child to her failed attempts to live a “normal” straight life in high school and college she became an influential figure in the LGBTQ history movement and a powerful reminder of just how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic. With humor and grace she describes her introduction to middle-class lesbian life and her love affairs including one with a well-known abstract painter and another with a French academic she encountered in Mexico and traveled with throughout France and Switzerland. Newton's narrative ends in her forties when she begins to achieve personal and scholarly stability in the company of the first politicized generation of out lesbian and gay scholars with whom she helped create gender and sexuality studies. We talked to Esther about her inspiration for writing “My Butch Career A Memoir” and give us her spin on our LGBTQ issues. Esther Newton is a founder of and leading scholar in LGBTQ studies. She received her BA at the University of Michigan in history before starting graduate work in anthropology at the University of Chicago. In 1968 her courageous PhD dissertation entitled “The Drag Queens: A Study in Urban Anthropology” examined the experiences, social interactions and culture of drag queens of mostly gay men that was later published under the title “Mother Camp” in 1972. Her second book “Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town” was published in 1993. Newton was active in Second Wave Feminism, Gay Liberation and the Lesbian/Feminist movements. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Hebrew, Polish and Slovak. Currently Newton is the subject of a documentary of her life story and contributing to a book of photography with acclaimed photographer Eva Weiss.For More Info: esther-newton.com LISTEN: 500+ LGBTQ Chats @OUTTAKE VOICES

This month on Outward hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley talk all about queer travel. Where do they like to go and how do they find gay experiences when they get there? Then they speak with cultural anthropologist Esther Newton about her work studying the queer community of Cherry Grove on Fire Island and the way its changed over the decades, and her new memoir My Butch Career. Slate staffer Erin Nichols explains the difficulties of going through airport security as a genderqueer person. And finally, June Thomas joins in for a fun bit of queer travel advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month on Outward hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley talk all about queer travel. Where do they like to go and how do they find gay experiences when they get there? Then they speak with cultural anthropologist Esther Newton about her work studying the queer community of Cherry Grove on Fire Island and the way its changed over the decades, and her new memoir My Butch Career. Slate staffer Erin Nichols explains the difficulties of going through airport security as a genderqueer person. And finally, June Thomas joins in for a fun bit of queer travel advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month on Outward hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley talk all about queer travel. Where do they like to go and how do they find gay experiences when they get there? Then they speak with cultural anthropologist Esther Newton about her work studying the queer community of Cherry Grove on Fire Island and the way it changed over the decades, and her new memoir My Butch Career. Slate staffer Erin Nichols explains the difficulties of going through airport security as a genderqueer person. And June Thomas joins in for a fun bit of queer travel advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices