LGBTQ history 
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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.
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SOURCE: BBC
9/25/2020
Rimbaud and Verlaine: France Agonises over Digging up Gay Poets
While advocates see reinterrment at the National Mausoleum as a recognition of gay contributors to French literary history, some opponents suggest the iconoclastic poets would have rejected any such honor.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
9/22/2020
Desiring Machines
In 1993, soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, consensual same-sex relationships were decriminalized in Russia as the economy underwent a wrenching transition away from central planning. Documentarian William E. Jones documents this moment by splicing together the non-sexual scenes from gay pornography shot in the former Soviet bloc.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/14/2020
The Long History Behind Donald Trump’s Outreach To LGBTQ Voters
by Neil J. Young
Gay Republicans emerged as a political force in response to both radical leadership in the gay liberation movement and the rise of evangelicals as a force in the Republican party. Today they may have to decide which fight is more important.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/14/2020
How Queer Women Powered the Suffrage Movement
Many of the women who fought for representation were rebels living nonnormative, queer lives.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
8/4/2020
Psychiatry and Homosexuality Draft Exemptions During the Vietnam War
by Natalie Shibley
Although many gay rights organizations argued that the exclusion of homosexuals from the armed forces was unconstitutional and discriminatory, several of the same groups also offered advice to gay men who wanted to be disqualified from military service.
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SOURCE: TIME
6/30/2020
Why We Owe Gay Marriage to an Early Trans Activist
by Eric Cervini
Why isn't Sylvia Rivera a household name?
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SOURCE: San Francisco State University
6/22/2020
Professor of History Marc Stein looks back at 50 years of celebration, resistance at LGBT pride parades
The historian and author of “The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History” answers questions about the past, present and future of LGBT pride parades.
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SOURCE: Slate
6/16/2020
The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”
by Rebecca Onion
One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/16/2020
What ‘Because of Sex’ Really Means
Beneath the verbal jousting, the Court expressed dueling views of sexual orientation and gender, and how society should assess them.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/14/2020
The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias
LGBTQ historian George Chauncey reviews Eric Cervini's biography of scientist Franklin Kameny, "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/15/2020
How a Segregationist Paved the Way for a Big Gay Rights Win in the Supreme Court
A segregationist congressman's "poison pill" amendment to include sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act became the linchpin of a ruling that LGBTQ people are protected by the act.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/4/2020
How Lavender Became a Symbol of LGBTQ Resistance
Historians David K. Johnston and Kassia St. Clair comment on the social and technological changes that helped make the color a secret, then open, political symbol.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/27/2020
Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84
Even some of the officials Mr. Kramer accused of “murder” and “genocide” recognized that his outbursts were part of a strategy to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency.
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