LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: AHA Committee on LGBTQ History
  3/30/2020
  

  AHA's Committee on LGBT History Announces Hardship Grants

  In an effort to address member needs, we are announcing 10 CLGBTH Hardship Grants of $200 each to members of the Committee. First-come first-served, no questions asked.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/28/2020
  

  They Survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust: They Have Some Advice For You

  Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  3/20/2020
  

  Assimilationists of a Feather

  by Elliot Friar and Travis LaCouter

  If the history of gay liberation has taught us anything, it’s that assimilationism is one hell of a drug.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s Coded Language Shows the Limits and Promise of LGBTQ Progress

  by Nathaniel Frank

  Research shows that it’s not just political candidates who continue to feel they have to hide their true selves to reach their full potential, as even the openly gay presidential candidate apparently did.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Mag
  3/9/2020
  

  This Interactive Map Visualizes the Queer Geography of 20th-Century America

  by Meilan Solly

  A new public history initiative spearheaded by historians Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan is poised to bring a series of guidebooks for gay travelers into the digital age, drawing on more than 30,000 listings compiled between 1965 and 1980 to visualize queer spaces’ evolution over time.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2020
  

  The Historic LGBTQ Trump Appointment that got Overshadowed

  by James Kirchick

  While Trump’s appointment of Grenell can be criticized on other grounds, the appointment of an openly gay man to head an institution once closed to gays and lesbians is a milestone.

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• 2/23/20
  

  The Seen and the Unseen: Queer Lives 1914-1945

  by T. Frohock

  Records generally show us the experiences of either the most privileged members of a society, who often escaped prosecution unharmed, or the most underprivileged, who suffered from laws designed to criminalize their behavior.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/10/20
  

  The history of ‘coming out,’ from secret gay code to popular political protest

  by Abigail C. Saguy

  In my new book, “Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are,” I explore the history of this term, from the earliest days of the gay rights movement, to today, when it has been adopted by other movements.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/20
  

  Decades after his arrest for having sex with men, a gay civil rights leader is pardoned

  On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued a posthumous pardon for Rustin.

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• SOURCE: Washignton Post
  1/21/20
  

  Arrested for having sex with men, this gay civil rights leader could finally be pardoned in California

  A decade before Bayard Rustin became a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights activist was booked into a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of “lewd vagrancy.”

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7/5/2019
  

  Historian Jonathan Ned Katz unearths evidence of one of America's earliest gay rights activists

  Rev. Carl Schlegel, a German immigrant, spoke on behalf of people attracted to the same sex in the early 1900s.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Vatican's Latest Official Document Is An Insult to the LGBTQ Community and History

  by Ed Simon

  Our understandings of romance, family, sexuality, and gender have been in flux in the past – within the Church no less – and no amount of thundering about “How the Vatican views it now is how it has always been” can change that.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Lavender Scare and Beyond: Documenting LGBTQ History from the Great Depression to Today

  by Eric Gonzaba

  An illumiting interview with Josh Howard, the director of the Lavender Scare documentary, and historian Eric Gonzaba. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  

  How Gay Culture Blossomed During the Roaring Twenties

  During Prohibition, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/6/19
  

  Stonewall Riot Apology: Police Actions Were ‘Wrong,’ Commissioner Admits

  The commissioner, James O’Neill, said he was sorry on behalf of the New York Police Department for officers’ actions during a seminal 1969 clash outside a gay bar.

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• SOURCE: U.S. News
  5/3/19
  

  ABCs of LGBTQ History Mandated for More U.S. Public Schools

  On Thursday, Colorado lawmakers voted to mandate LGBTQ curriculum for K-12 public school students. 

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• 4/14/19
  

  President Donald Trump, HIV/AIDS, and Black Lesbian and Gay Activism

  by Darius Bost

  Trump’s plan to end AIDS within this decade came as a surprise given his history with communities most impacted by HIV/AIDS.

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• SOURCE: NJ.com
  2/16/19
  

  N.J. schools will finally teach about LGBTQ history. Here’s what kids would learn.

  If done right, New Jersey will help set the national agenda for teaching kids about gender and sexuality throughout history and across all subjects, exposing students to a past that’s largely been ignored.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  2/13/19
  

  The Dark History of Anti-Gay Innuendo

  by James Kirchick

  The accusation that Lindsay Graham is susceptible to blackmail is historically groundless, predicated upon the same flawed assumption most people held about gays at the height of the Cold War: that they would commit treason in order to avoid being outed.  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/7/19
  

  The Gay History of America’s Classic Children’s Books

  From “Frog and Toad” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” many of the most enduring 20th-century titles share a secret language of queer compassion.