#  Heather White 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Gender and Queer Studies 

WSRP Research Associate 2021–22

 

 

 



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## Home institution

University of Puget Sound

## Research project

### Hosting the Counterculture: Histories of Queer Episcopal New York

Following the 1969 Stonewall Riots, queer activists found an unlikely community center: The Church of the Holy Apostles (Episcopal) hosted most of New York’s gay organizations. Drawing from interviews and archival research, this project re-examines this notoriously secular moment to illuminate the unexpected ways that religion shaped queer organizing.

## Profile

Heather White is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Puget Sound, teaching in religious studies and in gender, queer and feminist studies. Heather is the author of *Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights* (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) and co-editor (with Bethany Moreton and Gillian Frank) of *Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States* (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

## Course

HDS 2055: [Safe/Sacred/Free: Queer Movements and Religious Spaces](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH&SearchReqJSON=%7B%22ExcludeBracketed%22%3Atrue%2C%22PageNumber%22%3A1%2C%22PageSize%22%3A%22%22%2C%22SortOrder%22%3A%5B%22SCORE%22%5D%2C%22Facets%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22Category%22%3A%22HU_SCL_SCHEDULED_BRACKETED_COURSES%22%2C%22SearchPropertiesInResults%22%3Atrue%2C%22FacetsInResults%22%3Atrue%2C%22SaveRecent%22%3Atrue%2C%22TopN%22%3A%22%22%2C%22SearchText%22%3A%22Heather%20White%22%2C%22DeepLink%22%3Afalse%7D) (Fall 2021)



 

 

 





 

 

- ## affiliation
    
     [Past WSRP Research Associates](/affiliation/past-wsrp-research-associates) [WSRP Research Associate](/affiliation/wsrp-research-associate)
- ## alpha grouping
    
     [U-Z](/alpha-grouping/u-z)
- ## academic year
    
     [2021-22](/year-grouping/2021-22)