LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: Independent
  11/19/2020
  

  Female Pirate Lovers Whose Story was Ignored by Male Historians Immortalized with Statue

  A new memorial recognizes the relationship of pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read and secures their place in the history of piracy.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/11/2020
  

  America Comes Out

  A new book evaluates the origins and political evolution of "coming out" in gay America.

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• 11/8/2020
  

  How Two French Introverts Quietly Fought the Nazis

  by Jeffrey H. Jackson

  Two introverted French Lesbian artists conducted a campaign of subversion against the Nazis occupying the Island of Jersey that a trial judge called "more dangerous than soldiers." A new book explains how.

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• SOURCE: Orange County Register
  10/9/2020
  

  CSUF Professor is Digitally Mapping the History of Gay Spaces in America

  A new digital project by Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan maps out places listed in gay travel guides from the 1960s to the present, giving new insight into how gay people outside of tolerant cities created social spaces. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/6/2020
  

  The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval Christianity

  by Roland Betancourt

  An attentive reading of the record shows that same-sex intimacy, gender fluidity, and diverse sexual identities were prevalent among early Christians, contrary to the claims made by some fundamentalists today that these represent deviations from historical norms. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/28/2020
  

  Never Before Published Images of Men in Love Between 1850 and 1950

  A new book of found and collected photographs documents romantic love betwen men before the gay rights revolution. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/25/2020
  

  Rimbaud and Verlaine: France Agonises over Digging up Gay Poets

  While advocates see reinterrment at the National Mausoleum as a recognition of gay contributors to French literary history, some opponents suggest the iconoclastic poets would have rejected any such honor. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  9/22/2020
  

  Desiring Machines

  In 1993, soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, consensual same-sex relationships were decriminalized in Russia as the economy underwent a wrenching transition away from central planning. Documentarian William E. Jones documents this moment by splicing together the non-sexual scenes from gay pornography shot in the former Soviet bloc. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/14/2020
  

  The Long History Behind Donald Trump’s Outreach To LGBTQ Voters

  by Neil J. Young

  Gay Republicans emerged as a political force in response to both radical leadership in the gay liberation movement and the rise of evangelicals as a force in the Republican party. Today they may have to decide which fight is more important. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/14/2020
  

  How Queer Women Powered the Suffrage Movement

  Many of the women who fought for representation were rebels living nonnormative, queer lives.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/4/2020
  

  Psychiatry and Homosexuality Draft Exemptions During the Vietnam War

  by Natalie Shibley

  Although many gay rights organizations argued that the exclusion of homosexuals from the armed forces was unconstitutional and discriminatory, several of the same groups also offered advice to gay men who wanted to be disqualified from military service.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/30/2020
  

  Why We Owe Gay Marriage to an Early Trans Activist

  by Eric Cervini

  Why isn't Sylvia Rivera a household name?

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• SOURCE: San Francisco State University
  6/22/2020
  

  Professor of History Marc Stein looks back at 50 years of celebration, resistance at LGBT pride parades

  The historian and author of “The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History” answers questions about the past, present and future of LGBT pride parades.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/16/2020
  

  The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”

  by Rebecca Onion

  One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/16/2020
  

  What ‘Because of Sex’ Really Means

  Beneath the verbal jousting, the Court expressed dueling views of sexual orientation and gender, and how society should assess them.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/14/2020
  

  The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias

  LGBTQ historian George Chauncey reviews Eric Cervini's biography of scientist Franklin Kameny, "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/15/2020
  

  How a Segregationist Paved the Way for a Big Gay Rights Win in the Supreme Court

  A segregationist congressman's "poison pill" amendment to include sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act became the linchpin of a ruling that LGBTQ people are protected by the act.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/4/2020
  

  How Lavender Became a Symbol of LGBTQ Resistance

  Historians David K. Johnston and Kassia St. Clair comment on the social and technological changes that helped make the color a secret, then open, political symbol. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/27/2020
  

  Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

  Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of “murder” and “genocide” recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/16/2020
  

  David Carter, a Historian of Stonewall, Is Dead at 67

  David Carter's research clarified conflicting accounts of the events of June 28, 1969 and helped ensure that the portion of Greenwich Village surrounding the Stonewall Inn would be protected by the National Register of Historic Places.