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 jonathan david katz educator , writer , art historian
jonathan david katz

jonathan david katz -lrb- born 1958 -rrb- is an american activist , art historian , educator and writer , he is currently the director of the doctoral program in visual culture studies at state university of new york at buffalo .
he is also the former executive coordinator of the larry kramer initiative for lesbian and gay studies at yale university .
he is a former chair of the department of lesbian and gay studies at the city college of san francisco , and was the first tenured faculty in gay and lesbian studies in the united states .
katz was an associate professor in the art history department at the state university of new york at stony brook , where he also taught queer studies .
he received his ph.d. from northwestern university in 1996 .
katz is the founder of the harvey milk institute , the largest queer studies institute in the world , and the queer caucus for art of the college art association .
katz co-founded queer nation san francisco .
he has made scholarly contributions to queer studies the focus of his professional career .
he was the first artistic director of the national queer arts festival in san francisco and has published widely in the united states and europe .
his forthcoming book , `` the homosexualization of american art : jasper johns , robert rauschenberg and the collective closet '' , will be published by the university of chicago press .
an internationally recognized expert in queer postwar american art , katz has recently published `` jasper johns ' alley oop : on comic strips and camouflage '' in `` schwule bildwelten im 20 .
jahrhundert '' , edited by thomas roeske , and `` the silent camp : queer resistance and the rise of pop art , '' in `` plop !
goes the world '' , edited by serge guilbaut .
in 1995 , katz was kicked out of rauschenberg conference at the guggenheim for mentioning rauschenberg 's relationship with johns .
katz was co-curator with david c. ward and jenn sichel of the exhibition `` hide/seek : difference and desire in american portraiture '' at the national portrait gallery , washington .
this was the first major museum exploration of the impact of same-sex desire in the creation of modern american portraiture .
david wojnarowicz 's video `` a fire in my belly '' was removed from the exhibition on november 30 , 2010 , causing controversy .
katz was not consulted before the work 's removal .
