A Bar to Belong To
Diversity problems within lesbian bars
Ann Mussey discusses how not all lesbian women fit into one universal lesbian culture and how there were different bars in Old Town that suited these different groups of lesbian women.
As Told By...
Ann Mussey
Assistant Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Portland State University
Ann Mussey is a tenure-line faculty in Women' Studies. She received her doctorate in U.S. History with a specialty in women's history from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2001. Her research has evolved from historical queries about the social construction of lesbian subjectivity in twentieth-century U.S. to questions about the complex relationships between sexuality, citizenship, and the nation state. She teaches topics related to feminist theory, queer studies, and the history of sexuality. She is currently working on a book entitled Perversion and Power: Lesbians and the Sciences of Sexuality, 1920-1970. In her free time, you will find her working in the garden, watching old movies, playing with the family pooches, and digging the sunset.
