LGBTQ history

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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.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/1/19
  

  New Jersey becomes second state in nation to require that schools teach LGBT history

  “By learning about LGBTQ people who have made amazing contributions to their country, they are seeing possibilities for themselves and hope for the future."

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• SOURCE: US News and World Report
  10-16-17
  

  Advocates are starting to push for LGBTQ history to be taught in public schools

  October is LGBTQ History Month.