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Please join Professor Katie Hemphill for an online event, "A Conversation with Katie Hemphill, Ph.D.," on Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 7:00 PM CT hosted by the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network.
Event description: "LGBTQ-RAN hosts a conversation with 2021-22 LGBTQ Religious History Award winner Katie Hemphill, Ph.D. and Gillian Frank, Ph.D. Hemphill's award-winning paper, "'Pastor Was Trapped:' Queer Scandal and Contestations over Christian Anti-Vice Reforms", explores the disappearance of the Reverend Kenneth G. Murray, who suddenly disappeared from the city and from public life in 1916, just as the anti-vice crusade was reaching its height. Hemphill’s attempts to find out why uncovered a mostly forgotten scandal that erupted after Murray was exposed for engaging in sex with another man at Baltimore’s Central Branch Y.M.C.A. “‘Pastor was Trapped’” explores both Murray’s activism and his downfall, with a focus on how Baltimore iconoclast H.L. Mencken and other critics of anti-vice reformers used the allegations of Murray’s homosexuality to undermine reformist causes. For them, Murray’s apparent queerness seemingly confirmed the sexualized and gendered pathologies of Christian progressives."
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