How to Die in a Plague: Resistant Rhetoric in the Bay Area Reporter’s Obituary Pages, 1982-1998
Harold C. Smith Presentation Room, Stitzer Welcome Center at Judd GymnasiaPresented by Anne C. Wheeler, PhD Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric On August 13, 1998, the headline of the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s longest-running gay and lesbian newspaper, read, “No Obits.” The headline marked the fact that for the first time in 17 years, no obituaries were published in the weekly newspaper. This […]