LGBTQ history

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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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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/16/2020
  

  David Carter, a Historian of Stonewall, Is Dead at 67

  David Carter's research clarified conflicting accounts of the events of June 28, 1969 and helped ensure that the portion of Greenwich Village surrounding the Stonewall Inn would be protected by the National Register of Historic Places.

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• SOURCE: Wilton Bulletin
  5/9/2020
  

  Southern LGBTQ History Project Recognized By Archivists

  The Invisible Histories Project has received the Society of American Archivists' Archival Innovator Award for their efforts in preserving LGBTQ history.

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• SOURCE: PinkNews
  5/9/2020
  

  David Carter, The Gay Historian Who Wrote The ‘Definitive History’ Of The Stonewall Uprising, Has Died Of A Heart Attack Aged 67

  The gay historian wrote Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, which was published in 2004 and cemented Carter as the leading expert on the riots outside New York’s Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  5/7/2020
  

  Female Husbands

  by Jen Manion

  Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/3/2020
  

  Historical Archives Once Silenced Marginalized Voices. Now Pandemic Archivists Want Them to Be Heard.

  Historians are collecting archival documents related to COVID-19 in real-time to ensure that no experience with the virus is forgotten.

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• SOURCE: AHA Committee on LGBTQ History
  3/30/2020
  

  AHA's Committee on LGBT History Announces Hardship Grants

  In an effort to address member needs, we are announcing 10 CLGBTH Hardship Grants of $200 each to members of the Committee. First-come first-served, no questions asked.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/28/2020
  

  They Survived the Spanish Flu, the Depression and the Holocaust: They Have Some Advice For You

  Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  3/20/2020
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s Coded Language Shows the Limits and Promise of LGBTQ Progress

  by Nathaniel Frank

  Research shows that it’s not just political candidates who continue to feel they have to hide their true selves to reach their full potential, as even the openly gay presidential candidate apparently did.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Mag
  3/9/2020
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2020
  

  The Historic LGBTQ Trump Appointment that got Overshadowed

  by James Kirchick

  While Trump’s appointment of Grenell can be criticized on other grounds, the appointment of an openly gay man to head an institution once closed to gays and lesbians is a milestone.

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• 2/23/20
  

  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.