LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/11/2021
  

  The Overlooked LGBTQ History of the Harlem Renaissance

  The new film "Passing," based on Nella Larsen's novel, deals with a female character's crossing of the color line, but also with the openness to same-sex desire the Harlem Renaissance enabled. 

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• SOURCE: Out In Jersey
  10/10/2021
  

  LGBTQ Documentary “Cured” Debuts on PBS’ Independent Lens

  A new documentary revisits the period before the American Psychological Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973, and psychiatry endorsed extreme measures to "cure" same-sex attraction. 

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• 10/3/2021
  

  How Evangelical Conversion Narratives Feed the "Free Choice" Rhetoric at Your School Board Meeting

  by Rebecca L. Davis

  Evangelical Christianity grew in America by emphasizing the power of individual conversion as a "choice for Christ." This frame explains not only the prominence of Evangelicals among anti-mask and anti-vaccine protesters, but also the frequent rhetorical connections they make between COVID policy and LGBTQ tolerance. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/30/2021
  

  Despite Controversy, NASA Won't Rename Space Telescope

  Critics argue the James Webb Telescope honors a NASA administrator who sanctioned employment discrimination against gay and lesbian astronomers during the 1950s and 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/28/2021
  

  The Golden Age of "Traditional Marriage" Never Was

  by Lauren Gutterman

  Despite conservative mythologizing, married Americans in the postwar era frequently sought and secured space to explore same-sex attractions and relationships. These histories show that regardless of who controls the Supreme Court, conservatives will be unable to force a narrow model of family life on the public. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/15/2021
  

  The 70s are Back, But Not How You Think

  by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

  "In the coronavirus era, disco themes resonate. People long for community and wonder if leaders have our backs. Social media offers some of the trappings that defined disco — from the clothes to the allure of being seen in a new way."

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• SOURCE: Bookforum
  9/12/2021
  

  Vice, Vice, Baby: Anna Lvovsky's History of Policing Sex

  The “shifting public understandings of homosexuality in the twentieth century,” the legal historian Anna Lvovsky argues, “cannot be fully understood without a history of policing.”

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/6/2021
  

  Who Lost the Feminist Movement's "Sex Wars"?

  by Amia Srinivasan

  As a new book reconsiders the debates among feminists over sexuality and pornography by emphasizing the role of liberalism in reducing the radical demands both sides made for the remaking of relations between men and women to narrow issues of law and civil liberties, that history resonates with current controversies about the place of trans women in the feminist movement.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/27/2021
  

  EBay Deletes the Queer Past

  The online auction company's decision may make it difficult for historians of LGBTQ cultures and of sexuality to build archives of historically signicant erotica. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/30/2021
  

  ‘Outing’ of Priest Shows Power and Partisanship of Catholic Media

  by Peter Cajka

  Reporting on a scandal involving a priest's use of a gay hookup app highlights the growing ideological divisions in the American church and the nation's Catholic media. 

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• 7/11/2021
  

  The NFL Must Learn Lessons About Inclusion from Women's Sports

  by John Howard

  If the NFL is sincere in wanting to fight against entrenched homophobia, it should follow the example of women's sports (and be prepared to make partnerships and investments with LGBTQ organizations inside and outside of sports.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/20/2021
  

  "Burn This Letter Please": A Drag Queen's Letters to Hollywood Agent are a Key Source For LGBTQ History

  "Collectively, the letters painted a vivid portrait of an intimate existence among a tight group of friends in the late 1950s and early ’60s in New York."

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  6/25/2021
  

  An Oral History of the Lesbian Avengers

  The Lesbian Avengers organized and demonstrated in the 1990s to fight homophobia and sexism within the movement for queer liberation.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/28/2021
  

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s #Pride Tweet Conceals a Violent History

  by Jessica Ordaz and Alejandra Portillos

  "ICE’s message, that immigration enforcement and LGBTQ equality can be compatible, is dangerous because it conceals a violent history of immigration enforcement that has targeted and harmed LGBTQ people in the name of policing borders."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/28/2021
  

  The Republican Plot to Ban LGBTQ History in Public Schools

  So-called "Don't Say Gay" laws seek to restrict the teaching of LGBTQ history in schools or allow students to opt out of individual lessons. Historians Anthony Mora, Marc Stein and Charles Kaiser discuss the politics of moral panic.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/29/2021
  

  AIDS Disappeared from Public View Without Ending. Will Covid-19 do the Same?

  by Dan Royles

  AIDS activism shifted from framing the epidemic as a political crisis to a medical problem, allowing the ongoing vulnerability of the poor to fade from view as pharmaceutical advances have helped control the spread and impact of HIV among the affluent. 

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• 7/4/2021
  

  Carl Nassib's Coming Out Will Save Lives; How Many Depends on the NFL's Support

  by John Howard

  Carl Nassib just became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. His personal courage shouldn't obscure the work of previous activists or the obligation of the league to take positive steps to fight homophobia.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/29/2021
  

  Liquor Laws Once Targeted Gay Bars. Now, One State Is Apologizing.

  New Jersey's liquor commission has released documents that show how it applied liquor laws to close gay bars, showing how marginalized groups can be singled out through bureaucratic means. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/17/2021
  

  There’s No LGBTQ Pride Without Immigrants

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  Today's LGBTQ movement must recall its roots in the defense of marginalized groups against state power. Today, LGBTQ immigrants including the undocumented are among the most vulnerable. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/4/2021
  

  The Problem with a U.S.-Centric Understanding of Pride and LGBTQ Rights

  by Samuel Huneke

  The histories of gay liberation politics in divided Germany offer surprising insight into what it means for LGBTQ people to live freely in a society.