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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11-9-18
In Scottish schools, students will be required to learn about LGBTI history
The move came after a campaign called Time for Inclusive Education presented a series of suggestions to the Scottish government.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
10-19-18
The Godfather of Gay Studies
Nearing his 90s, Martin Duberman argues that the movement for equality has faltered.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-21-18
Scholar says Leviticus 1.0 didn’t demonize same-sex relationships
by Idan Dershowitz
Idan Dershowitz says that happened in a 2.0 version added later.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
6-30-18
Martin Duberman: Why LGBT Activism Needs to Return to Its Radical Roots
The veteran LGBT activist and historian argues in his new book that modern activism has lost its way—and lost its spark—in pursuit of mainstream acceptance.
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SOURCE: CNN
6-6-18 (accessed)
Video of the Week: Richard Nixon discusses homosexuality
In a clip from the 1970s, Richard Nixon is heard complaining that the sitcom "All in the Family" glorifies homosexuality.
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4-10-18
Illinois Senate plan would include LGBT history in schools
Illinois senators advanced a plan requiring public schools to teach a unit on the role and societal contributions of gays, lesbians and other LGBT individuals.
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SOURCE: them.
2-9-18
News Flash: History Is Not Just for Straight People
by Hugh Ryan
"Without queer history, we cannot truly understand history, full stop."
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12-12-17
Should History Textbooks ‘Out’ LGBT Figures?
California’s inclusive curriculum raises questions on the ethics of teaching about sexual orientation.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-5-17
Discriminating in the name of religion? Segregationists and slaveholders did it, too.
by Tisa Wenger
The Supreme Court must reject these claims.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-28-17
Canada Offers $85 Million to Victims of Its ‘Gay Purge,’ as Trudeau Apologizes
The government program, which lasted for more than 30 years and ended only in the 1990s, caused thousands to lose their jobs and sometimes face prosecution because of their sexual orientation.
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SOURCE: NBC News
11-9-17
Video of the Week: Before Stonewall, Julius' Bar Went Down in Gay History
by John Paul Brammer
Three years before the Stonewall riots, Julius' Bar in New York City made gay history. Listen to the story of Dick Leitsch, the man who was denied service for being gay in this very bar in 1966 in what has come to be known as the historic "Sip-In."
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
11-14-17
California Leads the Way Teaching LGBT History to Schoolchildren
California has approved 10 textbooks for use in K-8 classrooms that include covering the contributions of LGBT people to American history. Cue predictable outrage.
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SOURCE: BBC
11-4-17
Gay rights pioneer Roger Lockyer has died
Historians usually document history - they rarely walk into the pages themselves.
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SOURCE: TPM
10-24-17
Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott
“We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”
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SOURCE: US News and World Report
10-16-17
Advocates are starting to push for LGBTQ history to be taught in public schools
October is LGBTQ History Month.
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11-5-17
Yes, Gay Soldiers Were Stigmatized in Britain during the World Wars, but that’s Not the Whole Story
by Stephen Bourne
A writer explains what he discovered when he dove into the research of gay men in the two World Wars.
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SOURCE: lifesitenews.com
8-14-17
Conservatives complain that a "Pro-gay U.S. embassy features ‘art’ by anti-Trump professor”
The Temple University history professor, Ralph Young, specializes in dissent. His work is championed by the “progressive” “resistance” movement opposing Trump.
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SOURCE: Salon
7-31-17
Donald Trump’s transgender ban vs. Harry Truman’s desegregation order: A backward echo of the past
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Many of the same arguments Trump used last week also came up in 1948. Thankfully for history, Truman didn't listen.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
7-26-17
A history lesson for Trump: Transgender soldiers served in the Civil War
Albert Cashier served in the army as a man, lived his life as man and was buried at 71 with full military honors in 1915, as a man. But beneath the uniform in which he fought and was buried, he was biologically a woman.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
7-5-17
How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement
by John Broich
The story of how close Germany – and much of Europe – came to liberating its LGBTQ people before violently reversing that trend under new authoritarian regimes is an object lesson showing that the history of LGBTQ rights is not a record of constant progress.
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