Jeff Iovannone: Leslie Feinberg's Buffalo — Historic Sites in Stone Butch Blues
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Abstract
Leslie Feinberg's Buffalo: Historic Sites in Stone Butch Blues is a digital exhibit created with ArcGIS StoryMaps that documents the architectural and social history of sites represented in, or directly connected to, transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg's landmark novel Stone Butch Blues, originally published in Ithaca by Firebrand Books in 1993. The exhibit explores how Stone Butch Blues provides a blueprint from which to identify and interpret places where queer and transgender people socialized and worked in 1960s and 1970s Buffalo, New York, a city largely ignored within mainstream narratives of LGBTQ history. The places documented, both extant and demolished, collectively constitute an archive of Buffalo's historic LGBTQ sites.
On Monday, April 24 at 12:30 p.m., there will be an Instagram Live chat that will include Jeff Iovannone (M.A. HPP '23) and Ken Lustbader, codirector of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. The chat will cover historic sites in Ithaca and New York City related to transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg's award-winning novel Stone Butch Blues.
Bio
Jeff Iovannone is a historian and historic preservation planner from Buffalo, New York, who specializes in LGBTQ heritage conservation. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University at Buffalo and is currently pursuing a masters's degree in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University with a minor in LGBT Studies. Iovannone is cofounder of the Gay Places Initiative, a joint project with Preservation Buffalo Niagara that documents and celebrates LGBTQ historic sites in Buffalo, and has consulted for the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and the Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York. In June 2023, he will join the Landmark Society of Western New York as a preservation planner.
