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Susan O'Neal Stryker is a US American professor, author, filmmaker, and theorist of gender and sexuality. She is currently an associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, and is the director of the university's Institute for LGBT Studies. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Simon Fraser University. Stryker is an openly lesbian transgender woman who has written extensively about transgenderism and queer culture.

Stryker received a bachelor's degree in Letters from University of Oklahoma in 1983. She earned a Ph.D. in United States History at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992; her doctoral thesis is Making Mormonism: A Critical and Historical Analysis of Cultural Formation. She began to transition from man to woman shortly after earning her doctorate.

Stryker was later awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship in human sexuality studies at Stanford University, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation. From 1999 to 2003, she was the executive director of the GLBT Historical Society.

Her first book, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle Books 1996), coauthored with Jim Van Buskirk, is a heavily illustrated account of the evolution of LGBT culture in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. For her second, a critical survey titled Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback (Chronicle Books 2001), Stryker turned her attention to the lesbian pulp fiction and gay male pulp fiction published in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s.

With Stephen Whittle she co-edited The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge 2006), which won a Lambda Literary Award. Her following book, Transgender History (Seal Press 2008), covers transvestism, transgender people, and transsexualism in the United States from the conclusion of World War II to the 2000s.

Stryker received an Emmy Award for her directorial work on Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005), a documentary film about the Gene Compton's Cafeteria riot of 1966; the film was co-written, -directed, and -produced by Victor Silverman. With director Michelle Lawler and executive producer Kim Klausner she subsequently co-produced Forever's Gonna Start Tonight (2009), a documentary film about Vicki Marlane, an HIV-positive, transgender performer at nightclubs and lounges. She is currently working on Christine in the Cutting Room, an experimental film about Christine Jorgensen.

Monika Treut filmed and interviewed her for the 1999 documentary film Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities. She was also interviewed for a 2002 episode of the long-running television documentary series SexTV, and for two episodes of Sex: The Revolution (2008).

Her scholarly papers have been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and in WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. In 2008, she was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for her Salon.com article "Why the T in LGBT is Here to Stay", a response to John Aravosis' 2007 article "How did the T get in LGBT?".

Stryker is now working on a new book project, Cross-Dressing for Empire: Gender and Performance at the Bohemian Grove. The Bohemian Grove is a campground in Northern California, and the summer meeting-place of the Bohemian Club, a private organization of American men with considerable political and economic power or cultural influence.

See also

• Family and consumer science
• LGBT history in the United States
• List of Lambda Literary Award winners
• List of LGBT writers
• List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
• List of University of Oklahoma people
• Queer studies
• Timeline of LGBT history

Notes

1. "Susan Stryker, Ph.D." Department of Gender & Women's Studies. University of Arizona College of Social & Behavioral Sciences. Retrieved 4 May 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
2. Bolinger, Joyce (8 June 2011). "Susan Stryker takes Ariz. post". Windy City Times. Windy City Media Group. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
3. ^ "Susan Stryker". The Center for Sex and Gender Research. California State University, Northridge. Retrieved 6 May 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
4. http://www.annelawrence.com/mywords.html
5. Stryker, Susan O'Neal. Making Mormonism: A Critical and Historical Analysis of Cultural Formation (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 32257293.
6. Silverman, Victor (director, writer); Stryker, Susan (director, writer, presenter) (2005). Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (DVD). San Francisco, California: Frameline Distribution. 3 minutes in. OCLC 68045197. I had recently finished my Ph.D. in History, come out as transsexual, and started my transition from man to woman—all in the same year.
7. Stryker, Susan; Van Buskirk, Jim (1996). Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811811873. OCLC 33079347.
8. Stryker, Susan (2001). Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811830201. OCLC 45620803.
9. Stryker, Susan; Whittle, Stephen (2006). The Transgender Studies Reader. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415947084. OCLC 62782200.
10. Stryker, Susan (2008). Transgender History. Berkeley: Seal Press. ISBN 9781580052245. OCLC 183914566.
11. "Pomona College Professor Wins Northern California Emmy Award; Documentary Screaming Queens to Air Nationally on PBS in June". AScribe Law News Service. 24 May 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2012..
12. Stryker, Susan (1998). "The Transgender Issue: An Introduction". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 4 (2). Duke University Press: 145–58. doi:10.1215/10642684-4-2-145. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
13. Stryker, Susan; Currah, Paisley; Moore, Lisa Jean (2008). "Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender?". WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. 36 (3–4). The Feminist Press: 11–22. doi:10.1353/wsq.0.0112. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
14. Stryker, Susan (11 October 2007). "Why the T in LGBT is Here to Stay". Salon. Salon Media Group. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
15. Aravosis, John (8 October 2007). "How did the T get in LGBT?". Salon. Salon Media Group. Retrieved 6 May 2012.

External links

• Susan Stryker at California Thinkers
• Susan Stryker at IMDb
• Susan Stryker on Facebook
• Stryker, Susan (2 November 2005). "Five Questions With… Susan Stryker". en|Gender (Interview). Interviewed by Helen Boyd. Retrieved 9 July 2012. {{cite interview}}: External link in |work= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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