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Connell O'Donovan |
| Program Manager Summer Session University of California Santa Cruz odonovan@ucsc.edu |
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| AWARDS |
| 1st Place, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons Writing Awards, (for "Losing My Religion"), 2005 |
| 2nd Place, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons Writing Awards, (for "Stumbling Towards Zion"), 2003 |
| 1st Place, Lucille C. Reading Writing Award (for Utah Youth), (for "Quaker"), 1978 |
| AFFILIATIONS |
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, 1986-1991 and 2007 to present; served on Board of Directors for the Wasatch Affirmation Chapter (Salt Lake City), 1988-1990 |
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, 1996-present |
Mormon History Association, 2006-present |
| PUBLICATIONS |
Book Chapters
| “’The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature’: A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840- 1980." In Multiply and Replenish, Essays on Mormon Sex and Family, Brent Corcoran (ed.), (Signature Books: Salt Lake City, 1994) - revised and expanded version online |
“Ecce Homo: Ruminations on a Theology of My Queer Body." In ReCreations: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Queer People, Catherine Lake (ed.), (Q-Press: Toronto, 1994) |
“My Journey into Faerie and What I Found There." In ReCreations: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Queer People, Catherine Lake (ed.), (Q-Press: Toronto, 1994) |
“Reclaiming Sodom." In Reclaiming Sodom, Dr. Jonathan Goldberg (ed.), (Routledge Press: London, 1994) |
Non-refereed Articles
“The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis: ‘An example for his more whiter brethren to follow’”, John Whitmer Historical Association Journal (2006) no. 26, pp. 47-99 |
Newspaper Series
Twelve articles on homosexuality in pre-Christian Europe, in manifesto: (newspaper published in Santa Cruz, CA) 1996
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| PRESENTATIONS |
Professional Meetings
“The Life and Murder of Thomas Coleman, a Mormon Slave,” Mormon History Association Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, May 2008 |
“The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis”, John Whitmer Historical Association Annual Conference, Independence MO, September 2006 |
Other Symposia & Conferences
“Three Boston African American Elders: Joseph T. Ball, Q. Walker Lewis, and Enoch L. Lewis,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 2008 |
“African Americans of Boston,” Sunstone Theological Symposium East, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2007 |
“A History of Gay Mormon History”, Affirmation Annual Conference, San Francisco, October 2004 |
“Gay Mormon Suicides”, panelist, Sunstone Theological Symposium West, San Francisco, August 2004 |
“Homosexuality in Pre-Christian Europe”, LGBT Pride Week Conference, UC Santa Cruz, October 2000 |
“A History of Dragging the Queen: European Gender Transformation & Honoring the Divine Feminine”, LGBT Pride Week Conference, UC Santa Cruz, April 1999 |
“Private Pain, Public Purges: A History of Homosexuality at Brigham Young University, 1940-1980”, LGBT Pride Week Conference, UC Santa Cruz, April 1997 |
“Female Desire in Zion: A History of Mormon Lesbianism, 1850-1950”, Lesbian & Gay Student Union Annual Conference, University of Utah, January 1992 |
“Gay Mormon History”, Affirmation Annual Conference, Los Angeles, October 1988 |
| COURSES TAUGHT |
"Homosexualities Among Ancient Indo-European Cultures" – Five week non-credit course, Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, November 2000 |
"A Queer History of Mormonism, 1840-1950" - Six week non-credit course, Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, June to July 1999 |
Updated August 12, 2008