homophobia

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  7/6/2023
  

  The Pendulum of Queer History

  by Samuel Huneke

  As the Republican Party embraces aggressive transphobia as a political wedge issue, there is historical reason to believe that the strategy will provoke organizing, reform, or even revolution for queer liberation. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/15/2023
  

  If it's Ineffective and Harmful, Why is Gay Conversion Therapy Still Around?

  by Andrea Ens

  Conversion therapies endure because their purpose is political, not therapeutic. They seek and symbolize the eradication of LGBTQ people from society and are promoted by groups who want that eradication to happen. 

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• SOURCE: Raw Story
  3/24/2023
  

  The Role of US Evangelicals in Radicalizing Ugandans Against LGBTQ Rights

  While the accusation that LGBTQ adults are a risk to the safety of children has recently reemerged in American politics, US evangelical groups have been encouraging it in Africa for years. 

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  11/30/2022
  

  Reactionary Media are Fueling Anti-LGBTQ Violence

  by Ben Miller

  When the media give a platform to the idea that trans people living in public inherently encourages sexual abuse, violence aimed at removing them from the public will follow. The media need to take responsibility for Colorado Springs and call out icitement to violence. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  11/28/2022
  

  Forget Apology, the Right is Doubling Down on Inciting Violence Against LGBTQ Americans

  by Thomas Lecaque

  The campaign of encouraging stochastic terror against LGBTQ communities won't be deterred by a tragedy like the Colorado Springs killings. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/15/2022
  

  How to Be an Honest Historian

  by Imani Perry

  "At this historic juncture, teaching history through the study of human relationships is paramount. But that requires all of us, even people who are politically strident—as I admit myself to be—to engage in an earnest and open dialogue about what constitutes a good society and fair treatment. And it also means stomaching some disturbing thoughts."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/15/2022
  

  "Patriot Front" Plan to Attack Pride Shows Connections of White Supremacy and Anti-LGBTQ Politics

  The arrest of neonazis in Idaho who planned an attack on a Pride event echoes a 1937 raid on a Miami gay nightclub by the KKK, says historian Julio Capo, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: NBCUniversal
  4/14/2022
  

  Video: When a Protester Hit Anita Bryant with a Cream Pie in 1977

  "Thus always to bigots" declared the Des Moines, Iowa protester who greeted Anita Bryant's anti-gay roadshow with a pie to the face. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  4/13/2022
  

  Florida Bill Echoes Anita Bryant's Antigay Crusade in the 1970s

  Historians Lillian Faderman, Hugh Ryan and Julio Capó, Jr. trace the links between the Christian entertainer's claims that gay teachers threatened children and the effort to portray them as "groomers" for child abuse today. Also, video of Bryant being hit with a pie.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/4/2022
  

  While "Anti-Grooming" Rhetoric Seems to Come from the Fringe, it Can be Influential

  by Mical Raz and Paul M. Renfro

  The latest culture war battle revives historical efforts to use the law to institutionalize the slander that LGBTQ people pose an inherent danger to children and families. 

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• SOURCE: Declassified UK
  12/8/2021
  

  Did British Intelligence Try to Undermine Castro's Cuba with Homophobia?

  Declassified documents show that one unknown facet of the British effort to undermine communist Cuba was to encourage the spread of homophobic rumors about Raúl Castro.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Decoded
  10/11/2021
  

  The Homophobic Background to Jim Garrison's Persecution of Clay Shaw

  by Martin J. Kelly, Jr.

  Alecia Long's book argues that Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw as a conspirator in the Kennedy assassination was steeped in homophobia and leveraged the defendant's inability to properly defend himself because of the illegality of homosexuality to make up for lack of evidence. 

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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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• 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: ProPublica
  6/5/2020
  

  New Trump Appointee to Foreign Aid Agency Has Denounced Liberal Democracy and “Our Homo-Empire”

  Merritt Corrigan, USAID’s new deputy White House liaison, has condemned the “tyrannical LGBT agenda” and celebrated Hungary’s right-wing prime minister as “the shining champion of Western civilization.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2020
  

  In Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ One Movie Fixes Racism. Hooray!

  Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Coronavirus: Three Lessons from the AIDS Crisis

  by Laurie Marhoefer

  The U.S. made serious mistakes when the HIV virus and AIDS emerged. Those errors cost many lives. But our nation learned a few things, too.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/4/19
  

  How True-Crime Stories Reveal the Overlooked History of Pre-Stonewall Violence Against Queer People

  by James Polchin

  Today, 50 years after the Stonewall uprising that marks the birth of the modern gay-rights movement, we may understand that violence against LGBTQ citizens has been central to the evolution of that movement. But the history of such crimes tends to be lost. 

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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: 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.