LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/10/2021
  

  Anti-Trans Legislation has Never been about Protecting Children

  by Nikita Shepard

  "Tracing the ugly history of conservative efforts to combat school desegregation, welfare, reproductive freedom and gay and lesbian rights by claiming threats to children helps us understand why politicians today think they can gain votes by brutalizing vulnerable children in the name of protecting them."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/24/2021
  

  In Poland, an L.G.B.T.Q. Migration As Homophobia Deepens

  People leaving Poland for better economic opportunities within the European Union have been joined by gay and lesbian Poles who experience increasing hostility at home. 

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• SOURCE: OutHistory
  4/13/2021
  

  "Where Perversion is Taught": The Untold History of a Gay Rights Demonstration at Bucks County Community College in 1968

  by Marc Stein

  A student protest at Bucks County (PA) Community College in 1968, sparked by the college's decision to block a speech by gay rights advocate Richard Leitsch, should be recognized as a key event in the growing movement for gay liberation. 

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• SOURCE: Asian American Writers' Workshop
  3/25/2021
  

  Exploring Black and Asian American Lesbian Archives: Aché and Phoenix Rising

  Two newsletters by and for queer communities of color in the Bay Area are a primary source for understanding how Black and Asian American lesbians created and maintained community. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  3/23/2021
  

  Beyond Gay Imperialism

  by Samuel Huneke

  Do global campaigns for LGBTQ civil rights that originate in affluent Western societies reproduce the "civilizing mission" trope of colonialism, or use the goal of antidiscrimination to buttress the influence of wealthy nations? A historian considers a new book on global gay rights.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/16/2021
  

  Heterophobia? Straightwashing on the Academic Job Market

  by Rebecca L. Davis

  "Heterophobia is a pernicious idea, one that suggests that to question sexuality’s normative history is to hate people who sexually desire people of a different sex."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/28/2021
  

  The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families

  by Michael Waters

  Before the legal recognition of same-sex adoptive parents, social workers around the country made decisions to place gay and lesbian teens with gay and lesbian foster parents as a humane and protective act. 

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• SOURCE: them.
  2/23/2021
  

  These Portraits Revolutionized the Way Queer Women Were Seen in the 1970s

  Joan E. Biren (known as JEB) published a collection of photographs of lesbians in 1979, a pioneering representation of queer women living openly. It will be reissued in March with retrospective essays. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/17/2021
  

  The Original Shock of AIDS in “It’s a Sin”

  The British show "It's a Sin" reconstructs the emergence of AIDS in London through the story of a group of flatmates working to reconcile fear and affirmation. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/11/2021
  

  The Lady Gaga Anthem That Previewed a Decade of Culture Wars

  Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" was embraced as an anthem by some LGBTQ fans, but immediately raised questions about identity and cultural authority that are at the center of online culture wars today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/7/2021
  

  National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Reminds Us of the Deep Costs of Inequality

  by Dan Royles

  "This history shows us that biomedical interventions such as antiretrovirals to treat HIV or the vaccine against the coronavirus yield some progress in the fight against epidemic disease, but do little to alter the underlying inequities that make some communities more vulnerable to illness in the first place."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/19/2021
  

  The Stories of Those Who Lost Decades in the Closet

  "On a quiet block in downtown Brooklyn, a new photography exhibit — housed inside a senior living center — invites viewers to consider an essential question: How do we measure the emotional and social costs of discrimination?"

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/21/2021
  

  The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars

  Even before COVID-19 a combination of factors have made lesbian bars much less common than their counterparts catering to gay men. Two filmmakers are working to raise funds to keep these establishments in business. This article also explains how bars became safe gathering places as cities passed "vice" laws that subjected lesbians to police harassment in public.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/2/2020
  

  Deb Price, First Nationally Syndicated Columnist on Gay Life, Dies at 62

  Deb Price's columns were at the forefront of gay and lesbian journalists working openly in the news media and news outlets covering issues concerning LGBTQ Americans and communities with depth and nuance.

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• SOURCE: Independent
  11/19/2020
  

  Female Pirate Lovers Whose Story was Ignored by Male Historians Immortalized with Statue

  A new memorial recognizes the relationship of pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read and secures their place in the history of piracy.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  11/11/2020
  

  America Comes Out

  A new book evaluates the origins and political evolution of "coming out" in gay America.

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• 11/8/2020
  

  How Two French Introverts Quietly Fought the Nazis

  by Jeffrey H. Jackson

  Two introverted French Lesbian artists conducted a campaign of subversion against the Nazis occupying the Island of Jersey that a trial judge called "more dangerous than soldiers." A new book explains how.

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• SOURCE: Orange County Register
  10/9/2020
  

  CSUF Professor is Digitally Mapping the History of Gay Spaces in America

  A new digital project by Eric Gonzaba and Amanda Regan maps out places listed in gay travel guides from the 1960s to the present, giving new insight into how gay people outside of tolerant cities created social spaces. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/6/2020
  

  The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval Christianity

  by Roland Betancourt

  An attentive reading of the record shows that same-sex intimacy, gender fluidity, and diverse sexual identities were prevalent among early Christians, contrary to the claims made by some fundamentalists today that these represent deviations from historical norms. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/28/2020
  

  Never Before Published Images of Men in Love Between 1850 and 1950

  A new book of found and collected photographs documents romantic love betwen men before the gay rights revolution.