The Knitting Circle: Lesbian and Gay Studies
The International Homophilics InstituteThe International Homophilics Institute (IHI) (1962 - ) in Boston, USA.
TheIHIusually responds to queries within 72 hours. Email:ihi@tiac.net
Association with the Knitting Circle at South Bank UniversityWhen the Knitting Circle web site was based at South Bank University it began to upload articles from the IHI in the Autumn of 1997. This continued until it had uploaded 127 IHI articles by June 1999.
All of the IHI articles were removed from the SBU web site in June 1999 so that the IHI could publish them on their own web site.
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History of the IHITheIHIwas founded to celebrate the 10th. anniversary of theONE Institute of Homophile Studies, (1952-) in Los Angeles.
ONEmerged with theInternational Gay and Lesbian Archives, (1944-), and became part of the Univerity of Southern California. See the ONE Institute International Gay & Lesbian Archives (ONE/IGLA)web site: http://www.usc.edu/Library/oneigla/
TheIHIis now the oldest surviving gay research group in America.
Structure and function of the IHIIHIis a private, independent, unaffiliated research and homophilics-curriculum-development foundation of 300.IHIis not a 'college' though its Overseers has a 'college' within it which advises theIHIDirectors.
IHIoffers tutoring in a wide variety of disciplines and also has correspondence courses (especially for psychologists who may be required to have some homophilics in their backgrounds to deal with gay patients). About 2/3 of the IHI membership are collegiate professors or teachers, about 1/3 independent scholars.
IHIis presently developing curricula in homophilics in a wide range of disciplines - from literature to military history to the history of science. (Gay history is just now being introduced into a few high schools in Massachusetts, New York, and California.)
One of the research projects ofIHIisUnNatural Selections
IHI Members and associated researchersAmong the researchers of theIHIhave been:
- JAMES ELLIS COLEMAN, Jr., the primary black gay historian in the USA
- RICHARD DEY, former co-chair of theAmerican Historical Association Committee on Gay and Lesbian History
- WARREN JOHANSSON, (1934-1994), a major contributor to the field and editor of "e;The Encyclopedia Homophilica"e; and "e;Encyclopedia of Homosexuality"e;
- DONALD C. H. MULLIN, another major contributor
- VARICK VANARDY, Jr., novelist and historian
IHI Website promotions committee- JAMES ELLIS COLEMAN, Jr.(The present (1997) IHI chancellor)
- RICHARD DEY(IHI's former chancellor)
- DIANA KEMPTON DREW(Committee Chair)
- DONALD C. H. MULLIN(Canada)
- SKIP PATCHELL(Correspondent Member)
- DANA A. PEGAN
- JOHN SCHOUTEN
- VARICK VANARDY, Jr, (An Overseer)
- STEPHEN W. WEINBERG
Publications and other sourcesTheIHIowns the following.
Material supplied by theIHImay also be from
- Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, (EoH), (c) 1990, WAYNE R. DYNES.
The materials used from this source will be 'adaptations' and so-noted. TheIHIwill only use the first, 1990, edition, which is now virtually obsolete. TheIHIprovided a lot of the base data for the "e;Encyclopedia of Homosexuality"e;, when it was published by Garland, NYC in 1990.
WAYNE R. DYNES is a Fellow of theIHI.
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