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queer history



  • 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.



  • 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.


  • 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.

  • AHA Amicus Brief Ignores Radical Queer History

    by Steven Maynard

    The perspective on the history and politics of same-sex marriage crystallized in the AHA amicus brief both reflects and helps to reproduce a much broader and worrying process: the narrowing of the queer political field to variants of liberalism such that a left critique becomes increasingly difficult to voice.