LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  7/6/2023
  

  The Pendulum of Queer History

  by Samuel Huneke

  As the Republican Party embraces aggressive transphobia as a political wedge issue, there is historical reason to believe that the strategy will provoke organizing, reform, or even revolution for queer liberation. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/16/2023
  

  The Dodgers Were Right to Honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

  by Lily Lucas Hodges

  Catholic groups charged that the LGBTQ group mocked their faith with their appropriation of nuns' dress. But the group more importantly defied Catholic teaching to promote life-saving health care and education about sexuality at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  6/22/2023
  

  Moms For Liberty Event at Museum of American Revolution is a Betrayal of Historians and Democracy

  by Jen Manion

  "The Museum of the American Revolution has a responsibility to defend the history and practice of American democracy, not harbor those who seek to destroy it."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/13/2023
  

  The Lesson of Germany's Most Famous Trans Woman? Freedom Requires Joy

  by Samuel Huneke

  As anti-trans and homophobic legislation and rhetoric pervade the political arena, this Pride month may feel less than celebratory. A historian of queer life under both Nazism and East German Communism says it's a mistake to embrace doom. 

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• SOURCE: KJZZ
  6/13/2023
  

  Sports Historian Victoria Jackson: Trans Bans in Sports Part of History of Suspicion toward Women's Sports

  Recent state laws regulating the participation of transgender athletes in girls' sports are part of a long history of policing gender in athletics. 

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• 6/4/2023
  

  Can the Left Take Back Identity Politics?

  by Umut Özkırımlı

  Recovering the liberatory potential of identity politics means going back to the term's source—the Combahee River Collective—and recognizing its radical roots and embrace of coalition-building and politics.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2023
  

  The Right to Dress However You Want

  by Kate Redburn

  New anti-transgender laws should prompt a legal response, but they also require a fundamental recognition: laws prescribing gendered dress codes infringe on everyone's freedom of expression. 

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• SOURCE: Sojourners
  5/31/2023
  

  Dodgers' Controversial Invite to "Drag Nuns" Group Highlights Catholics' Selective Sense of Faith

  by Kaya Oakes

  Catholic groups expressing outrage at the team's recognition of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence overlook the centrality of mercy in the Gospels. 

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• 5/28/2023
  

  Dangerous Records: Why LGBTQ Americans Today Fear the Weaponization of Bureaucracy

  by Emily Hand

  Requests made by Texas's Attorney General for information about gender change requests on drivers' licenses and other documents alarmed transgender advocates because the data could support an official list of trans Texans at a moment when the group faces public vilification. History shows that innocent bureaucratic records can be used oppressively.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/23/2023
  

  How to Fight Back Against the Right's "Parents' Rights" Moral Panic

  by Jennifer Berkshire

  Parents' fears about losing control over their children have been the raw material for potent politically-motivated moral panics for a century and more. But those panics aren't irresistible, because parents everywhere still value public schools as democratic community institutions.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/2023
  

  Most Book Bans Driven by Tiny Minority of Activists; LGBTQ Themes Central to Objections

  Individuals who filed 10 or more challenges to books were responsible for two thirds of all complaints about books, suggesting a small group of political activists is driving the phenomenon. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/2023
  

  Dept. of Ed Charges Georgia Book Removal May Violate Civil Rights

  A review by the department's civil rights unit concludes that Forsyth County, Georgia may have created a hostile learning environment for Black and LGBTQ students through its book removal policies. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/15/2023
  

  If it's Ineffective and Harmful, Why is Gay Conversion Therapy Still Around?

  by Andrea Ens

  Conversion therapies endure because their purpose is political, not therapeutic. They seek and symbolize the eradication of LGBTQ people from society and are promoted by groups who want that eradication to happen. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/12/2023
  

  Indiana U. Pres.: Legislative Attack on Kinsey Institute a Attack on Academic Freedom

  Ironically, Alfred Kinsey's work was the subject of moral panics and suppression in his own lifetime. 

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• SOURCE: Indiana Public Media
  5/5/2023
  

  Indiana's Kinsey Institute will Have to Carry on Without State Funds

  The pioneering research institute for the study of human sexuality has been a victim of the "groomer" moral panic; the legislator introducing the funding restrictions has called the late Alfred Kinsey a pedophile and suggested the institute was "hiding child predators." 

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• 5/7/2023
  

  Let Us Now Praise R. DeSantis

  by Marc Stein

  "I can’t believe it’s taken this long to have a political leader take a stand against gender and sexuality!"

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/27/2023
  

  Shameful Echoes of the 1950s Lavender Scare

  by David K. Johnson

  At the height of the McCarthy era, a bipartisan congressional committee concluded that gay and lesbian personnel should be purged from government service because of the alleged "weakness of their moral fiber." Teaching this history could make students more able to recognize political moral panics today. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/24/2023
  

  A Hunt Through the Queer Past for the Anonymous "HHC" Ended in an Unexpected Place

  by Aaron Lecklider

  The repression of the past has meant that few early LGBTQ activists have kept detailed records of their work or their communities. But sometimes the present community of historians can collectively find those ghosts of the past. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/10/2023
  

  Jeanne Manford's Support for her Gay Son was Revolutionary

  At the time Manford began publicly supporting her own gay son and organizing a group for other parents of gay children, 49 states had laws criminalizing gay sex; the scope and bravery of her activism is difficult to appreciate today. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/27/2023
  

  Gender-Affirming Care Has a Long History, and Has Affected Non-Trans People Too

  by G. Samantha Rosenthal

  Medical intervention to make people's bodies conform to their assigned place in the gender binary has a long history; it has been controversial principally when the same treatments have been used by transgender people.