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gay history



  • 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.


  • 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.



  • Queer Like Pete

    by Jim Downs

    Buttigieg is getting slammed for being a type of gay man America doesn’t understand.



  • Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history

    by Susan Gill Vardon

    Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.



  • Stonewall and Queens

    by Marc Stein

    The overlooked importance of Queens, New York in LGBT history. 



  • 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.