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Public Lecture Topics:
- "The Lavender Baedeker: Gay Guides and Communication Networks in the 1950s and 1960s." Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 11 August 2001.
- Discussion. "Putting Lesbian and Gay History Back Together Again." Roundtable discussion held at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 27 April 2001.
- "The Lesbian Grapevine: Authors, Organizations, and the Struggle to Represent Lesbianism in the 1960s." Paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Sponsored Session, Boston, MA, 5 January 2001.
- "The Mattachine Society You Never Knew: Reconsidering Male Homophile Practice in the 1950s and 1960s." Paper presented at "The Future of the Queer Past: A transnational History Conference," The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 15 September 2000.
- "Excavating Life: The Production, Reception, and Legacy of Life Magazine's 'Homosexuality in America'," California Studies Association Conference, Berkeley, CA, February 1999
- "Gay and Lesbian Politics and Publicity in San Francisco, 1955-1965," San Francisco State University, Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Studies, Human Sexuality Program, November 1998
- "The Lowdown on the Big Town: Urban Epistemology and the American City," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, August 1997
- "Queer San Francisco in Straight America: Cultural Reputation and the Making of the Gay Mecca," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting; co-sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library exhibition "San Francisco: The Politics of Inclusion," San Francisco, CA, April 1997
- "'I Wanted to be at the Gay Center of the Universe': Exploring Motivations Among Gay and Lesbian Migrants, 1942-1992," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April 1996
- Chair and Organizer, "Stemming the Tide of 187: Strategies to Halt Anti-Immigrant Legislation," panel discussion at "Queer Frontiers: The Fifth National Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Graduate Student Conference," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 1995
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Recent Publications:
- In progress - Come Out West: San Francisco and the Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Community, 1920-1972. University of Chicago Press, Douglass Mitchell, editor. This book is an edited and enlarged version of Meeker's dissertation. Anticipated completion: mid 2003.
- In progress - "The Modernization of Vice: San Francisco's Barbary Coast in the 20th Century." This book project is in the preliminary research phase and will examine the transformation of San Francisco's red-light district from 1906 through 1963 and will focus on the intersection of urban space, ethnic political constituencies, and varying definitions of vice.
- "Homophile Movement," "Mattachine Society," "ONE Institute," and "Hal Call." in the Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture. Marc Stein, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.
- The Gay Detective by Lou Rand Hogan, edited and with an introductory essay by Martin Meeker and Susan Stryker. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003.
- "Behind the Mask of Respectability: Reconsidering the Mattachine Society and Male Homophile Practice 1950s - 1960s." Journal of the History of Sexuality 10, no. 1 (January 2001): 78-116. Winner of the 2000-2001 Gregory Sprague Prize from the American Historical Association, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History.
- "Harold (Hal) Call"; "Phyllis Lyon and Dorothy (Del) Martin"; "Leonard Matlovich"; and "José Sarria". in Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: World War II to the Present Day. Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, eds. London: Routledge, 2001.
- Co-author. "Saber y Conocer: The Metropolis of Urban Inquiry." in From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory, 405-420. Michael Dear, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001.
- Co-editor. Queer Frontiers: Millenial Genders, Generations, and Geographies. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
- The Doctrine of the Inner Light, Evangelicalism, and Women in the Society of Friends." Ex Post Facto 3, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 108-134.
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