LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  5/10/2022
  

  SCOTUS is Enabling a Backlash Against Free Sexual Expression

  by Rebecca L. Davis

  The history of legislation aimed at suppressing "vice" shows that abortion is tied to other forms of free sexual expression. The last sweeping attack on sexual freedom took decades to reverse.

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• 4/24/2022
  

  "Two-Spirit" Visibility and the Year Activists Rewrote History

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  In 1990, a group of Native activists coined the term "Two-Spirits" to encompass a variety of people who embodied masculine and feminine traits in indigenous communities, replacing colonizers' terminology that emphasized shame or deviance. Marginalized communities change their history by changing who tells their story, and how. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/21/2022
  

  Visible Activism Key to Protecting Trans People From Discriminatory Laws

  by Shay Ryan Olmstead

  The legal strategies that LGBT groups have used to defend their rights and dignity in society may be less effective with hard-right judges on the bench. Direct action and activism outside the courts will be needed to make sure that the right doesn't use the law to target trans people for political gain. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  4/19/2022
  

  Love on Credit: Meditations on Fatness, Queerness, and Transformation

  by T.J. Tallie

  "By seeing ourselves as temporarily embarrassed fatties, as body problems we are in the midst of fixing, we lock ourselves into a devastating cage, one where we ration love like we do calories."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/18/2022
  

  It's Not the First Time Conservatives Have Feuded With Disney over LGBTQ Issues

  Despite the volume of threats to boycott, Disney has seen little damage from previous controversies like the Southern Baptist Convention's 1997 boycott over Ellen DeGeneris, theme park "Gay Days" and health benefits for same-sex partners. 

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• SOURCE: Vice
  4/13/2022
  

  The Far Right is "Doxxing" More School Officials they Claim are "Groomers"

  Online calls for violence against teachers and school staff suggest that the right's portrayal of LGBTQ adults as inherent threats to children will soon generate a body count. 

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• 4/17/2022
  

  Bringing Queer History to the Public (Excerpt)

  by Marc Stein

  The author of a new book of essays on writing queer public history recalls how he developed a voice for writing to the broader public – including by writing for HNN. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/5/2022
  

  "Father Knows Best": Anti-LGBTQ Legislation and the Patriarchy

  by Judith Levine

  The elision of children’s interests and parents’ rights is not just bad grammar, however. It is an expression of conservative “pro-family” ideology, which posits the family as an indivisible unit where everyone’s interests are unanimous.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/12/2022
  

  Leo Bersani: Contrarian Critic of Gay Desire

  by Jack Parlett

  "For Bersani, reading is meant to hurt a little or you’re not doing it right. A preface that preempts what you’ll take away, or paraphrases what is particular, can have, he suggests, a simplifying or even sanitizing effect."

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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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• 4/12/2022
  

  Republican Midterm Strategy: Anti-LGBTQ Culture War?

  Historians discuss the return of sex-panic politics as states pass "don't say gay" laws and equate information about sexuality with "grooming" for sexual abuse.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/7/2022
  

  Disney Controversy Puts Right-Wing Children's Entertainment Industry in Spotlight

  by Nicole Hemmer

  A growing array of conservative children’s literature and programming coincides with right-wing attacks on schools and children’s entertainment that conservatives claim are sites of political and sexual indoctrination.

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• SOURCE: Above the Law
  4/7/2022
  

  With ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law, Gay Conservatives Find Their Inner Ernst Röhm

  The head of the Tampa Log Cabin Republicans followed in the footsteps of gay Nazi Ernst Röhm by attacking critics of Florida's "don't say gay" bill and echoing the governor's insinuation that LGBTQ teachers are "grooming" children for sexual abuse. 

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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: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/28/2022
  

  Using "The Children" as an Excuse for Anti-LGBTQ Laws is Nothing New for Florida

  by Julio Capó Jr. and Shevrin Jones

  The 1950s Johns Committee was formed by the state legislature to root out communist subversion in Florida. Not finding any red influence in the NAACP, they turned to scapegoating LGBTQ Floridians. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  3/23/2022
  

  Caught on Tape: North Texas School Superintendent Orders Removal of Transgender, LGBTQ Themed Books

  "[Superintendent Jeremy Glenn] noted that members of Granbury’s school board — his bosses — were also very conservative. And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, 'You better hide it'."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/22/2022
  

  When Communism was Queer

  by Samuel Huneke

  American commentators have used the repression of gay life in states like Cuba to discredit socialism. The history of communist approaches to sexuality is more complex, as in the former East Germany. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/11/2022
  

  Targeting the Marginalized for Political Gain is Nothing New in Texas Politics

  by Nancy Beck Young

  Minority groups have often had a perilous existence in Texas, but that hasn't stopped politicians from attacking them as dire threats to the state's moral fabric. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Gay News
  3/15/2022
  

  Marc Stein Examines LGBTQ History through Academic and Community Lenses

  "Queer Public History" examines the connections between academic historians and the shared narratives maintained by LGBTQ communities.