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SUMMARY:Queer Revolutionary: The Trials of Robert Newburgh
DESCRIPTION:On the eve of the American Revolution\, the British army 
 court-martialed a chaplain\, Robert Newburgh\, who had been accused of 
 having intimate relations with a man. Newburgh’s enemies cited his 
 flamboyant appearance\, defiance of military authority\, and seduction of 
 soldiers as proof of his low character. Consumed by fears that the British 
 Empire would soon be torn asunder\, they claimed that crimes against nature 
 were crimes against the king.\n\n\n\nIn this talk\, historian John Gilbert 
 McCurdy (Eastern Michigan University) uses the case of Robert Newburgh to 
 glimpse inside eighteenth-century perceptions of queerness. By demanding to 
 have his case heard\, Newburgh invoked Enlightenment ideals of equality\, 
 arguing passionately that his style of dress and manner should not affect 
 his place in the army or society. Newburgh thus made the case for sexual 
 liberalism\, an idea that was wholly consistent with the highest ideals of 
 the American Revolution\, and that anticipated a greater freedom for LBGTQ  
 individuals in the nation that followed.\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Gilbert McCurdy is 
 Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of 
 three books including Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality\, the American 
 Revolution\, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh (Johns Hopkins\, 2024). 
 McCurdy is also the author of Quarters: The Accommodation of the British 
 Army and the Coming of the American Revolution (Cornell\, 2019)\, which was 
 named 2019 Book of the Year by the Journal of the American 
 Revolution.\n\nMcCurdy received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. 
 Louis in 2004. He also holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and 
 B.A. from Knox College. He has received held fellowships from the British 
 Library\, the Massachusetts Historical Society\, and the University of 
 Michigan. \n\nMcCurdy has taught at Eastern Michigan University since 
 2005\, where he has been nominated for several teaching awards. He 
 regularly teaches courses in colonial and Revolutionary America\, as well 
 as LGBTQ  history.
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