LGBTQ history

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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.

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• SOURCE: Wilton Bulletin
  5/9/2020
  

  Southern LGBTQ History Project Recognized By Archivists

  The Invisible Histories Project has received the Society of American Archivists' Archival Innovator Award for their efforts in preserving LGBTQ history.

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• SOURCE: PinkNews
  5/9/2020
  

  David Carter, The Gay Historian Who Wrote The ‘Definitive History’ Of The Stonewall Uprising, Has Died Of A Heart Attack Aged 67

  The gay historian wrote Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, which was published in 2004 and cemented Carter as the leading expert on the riots outside New York’s Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  5/7/2020
  

  Female Husbands

  by Jen Manion

  Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/3/2020
  

  Historical Archives Once Silenced Marginalized Voices. Now Pandemic Archivists Want Them to Be Heard.

  Historians are collecting archival documents related to COVID-19 in real-time to ensure that no experience with the virus is forgotten.

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• SOURCE: AHA Committee on LGBTQ History
  3/30/2020
  

  AHA's Committee on LGBT History Announces Hardship Grants

  In an effort to address member needs, we are announcing 10 CLGBTH Hardship Grants of $200 each to members of the Committee. First-come first-served, no questions asked.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/28/2020
  

  They Survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust: They Have Some Advice For You

  Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  3/20/2020
  

  Assimilationists of a Feather

  by Elliot Friar and Travis LaCouter

  If the history of gay liberation has taught us anything, it’s that assimilationism is one hell of a drug.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s Coded Language Shows the Limits and Promise of LGBTQ Progress

  by Nathaniel Frank

  Research shows that it’s not just political candidates who continue to feel they have to hide their true selves to reach their full potential, as even the openly gay presidential candidate apparently did.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Mag
  3/9/2020
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2020
  

  The Historic LGBTQ Trump Appointment that got Overshadowed

  by James Kirchick

  While Trump’s appointment of Grenell can be criticized on other grounds, the appointment of an openly gay man to head an institution once closed to gays and lesbians is a milestone.

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• 2/23/20
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/10/20
  

  The history of ‘coming out,’ from secret gay code to popular political protest

  by Abigail C. Saguy

  In my new book, “Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are,” I explore the history of this term, from the earliest days of the gay rights movement, to today, when it has been adopted by other movements.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/20
  

  Decades after his arrest for having sex with men, a gay civil rights leader is pardoned

  On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued a posthumous pardon for Rustin.

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• SOURCE: Washignton Post
  1/21/20
  

  Arrested for having sex with men, this gay civil rights leader could finally be pardoned in California

  A decade before Bayard Rustin became a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights activist was booked into a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of “lewd vagrancy.”

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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.