LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: Vice
  1/20/2023
  

  I Helped Thousands of Teens Affected by Book Bans—Listen to Them

  by Leigh Hurwitz

  Teens are receiving a message loud and clear from new state laws restricting the content of classrooms and libraries: Politicians want people like them to disappear. Defending access to library books is vital. 

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• SOURCE: Christianity Today
  1/13/2023
  

  Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Gets Court Win on Exemptions to Discrimination Law

  A judge dismissed a lawsuit by LGBTQ students that challenged the faith-based exemptions that Christian colleges can claim from enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. 

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• SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  12/16/2022
  

  Clark U.'s William Koelsch, Pioneering LGBTQ Historian, Dies at 89

  Beginning in the 1970s, Koelsch was one of the first professors to teach about the gay liberation movement and incorporated the HIV-AIDS crisis into his courses on health and disease. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/9/2022
  

  Are Conservative Courts Giving Professors a Right to Mistreat Transgender Students?

  by Andrew Koppelman

  Under the guise of an expansive view of "religious freedom," courts are enshrining the ability of professors to engage in discriminatory conduct. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  12/15/2022
  

  Tracing AIDS-Driven Cultural Production Across Generations

  by Mackenzie Lukenbill

  The collected papers of AIDS educator and activist Chloe Dzubilo stand as a "counter-archive," which does not just preserve a record of the past but makes it a trigger for thought and action in the present. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  12/14/2022
  

  It's Time to Be Honest About the Partisan Nature of Gun Culture

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  "The national free-for-all in which we have 120 guns for every 100 people... is deeply tied to the political ideology of today’s Republican Party. It comes from the rise of Movement Conservatism under Ronald Reagan."

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  12/13/2022
  

  New Docuseries Traces the Importance of America's Vanishing Lesbian Bars

  In 1987, there were an estimated 206 lesbian bars across the U.S. Phoenix's Boycott Bar is one of fewer than two dozen that remain today.

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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: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/28/2022
  

  The "Private Little Hell" of Florida's 1950s Anti-Gay Faculty Investigations

  At least 39 faculty members were forced out of Florida universities under the Johns Committee's investigation of alleged homosexual behavior. But the figure doesn't include the other lives and careers wrecked by the crusade. 

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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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• 11/20/2022
  

  Transgender Youth Have Doubters. They Also Have History

  by Pax Attridge

  Opponents of gender-affirming medical intervention for trans youth invoke "transtrendiness" or social influence to claim that they're protecting youth from impulsively making medical decisions based on peer pressure. To accept this belief is to ignore the historical presence of transgender youth. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/17/2022
  

  Mormon Support for Same-Sex Marriage isn't a Total Surprise

  by Benjamin E. Park

  A historian of the Latter Day Saints explains that the church has become more willing to tolerate general expansions of rights for LGBTQ Americans at the same time as it reserves the right to dictate sexual mores within its own ranks. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/9/2022
  

  The Gay Movement that Grew in the 1920s Didn't Collapse, it Went Underground

  Henry Gerber's Society for Human Rights complicates the narrative of a gay rights struggle emerging publicly in the 1950s. If gay and lesbian Americans were organizing in the 1920s, what happened in the decades between? Jim Elledge's book seeks to explain that gap. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/8/2022
  

  From Persecution to Pride: The Pink Triangle Symbol

  by Jake Newsome

  2022 is the worst year on record for anti-LGBTQ legislation in America, making the historical persecution of sexual minorities even more important to remember. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/2/2022
  

  "A League of Their Own" Update Engages Lives of Queer Women in the 1940s

  by Lauren Gutterman

  "The series’ portrait of queer life amid World War II might seem unrealistic to some, but history reveals that queer women and trans men — from butch to femme and married to unmarried — often found opportunities to act on their desires and build queer communities."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10/26/2022
  

  Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller: Learn from the "Bad Gays" of History

  The podcasters insist on looking at how the lives of historical figures outside of the narrative of liberal progress shed light on LGBTQ history, from colonizer Cecil Rhodes to Nazi Ernst Röhm to McCarthyist Roy Cohn. 

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• SOURCE: The Drift
  10/25/2022
  

  Against Queer Presentism—How Literary Studies Neglects the Archive

  by Colton Valentine

  LGBTQ writers in today's literary world too often operate on the presumption that they are the first to experience queerness openly, making their own experiences of repression seem universal and transhistorical, and effacing older fictional and critical voices. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/25/2022
  

  Doctors Who? The Radical History of DIY Transition

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  As trans people's access to the medical system is under attack by law and political rhetoric, it may be necessary to revisit the history of trans women taking their gender transitions into their own hands. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/24/2022
  

  MAGA Mom Activists Heavily Represented on DeSantis Book Review Panel

  Both transparency and expertise seem to have been ignored in the selection of conservative activists to staff a Florida panel implementing new restrictions on school libraries and in-classroom reading materials. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/21/2022
  

  Inside the Proposed National "Don't Say Gay" Bill

  Modeled on legislation in Florida and other states, proponents say the legislation, a priority if Republicans retake the House, will protect children. Critics say its intention is to marginalize LGBTQ Americans.