LGBTQ history

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3/22/2023
  

  DeSantis Moves to Expand "Don't Say Gay" Law Coverage to all Grades

  The move would exempt lessons in state-mandated health instruction, but such courses would require allowing parents to opt out of them. The change could be implemented by the state board of education without legislative approval. 

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• SOURCE: Vice
  3/21/2023
  

  Leaked Emails Show Christian Nationalist Anti-Trans "Holy War"

  “Stopping the existence of transgender people and the acceptance of trans people in the public sphere is to them some sort of religious imperative,” according to historian Thomas Lecaque. 

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• SOURCE: Gotham Center
  3/1/2023
  

  Marc Stein on "Sodomites and Gender Transgressors" in Old New York

  The historian discusses a digital database he's been developing to make primary sources and their analysis more widely available for the study of queer communities in American history. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  2/22/2023
  

  Indiana Legislature Votes to Defund IU's Kinsey Institute

  Conservative lawmakers invoked the specter of child sexual exploitation to argue for defunding the leading American center for research on human sexuality. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/20/2023
  

  Is the Times Repeating Past Mistakes in its Transgender Reporting and Editorials?

  The paper's now-notorious reluctance to cover the growing AIDS crisis and insistence on using clinical terminology like "homosexual" to describe gay men are now seen as failures of journalism. Is the paper's recent coverage of transgender issues following the same path? 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/14/2023
  

  Drop "Culture War" Description: Banning Books and Restricting Ideas is Fascism

  by Jason Stanley

  Conflicting cultural values are a normal part of democracy. What leaders like Ron DeSantis want is to make sure only one set of values has a place in the public square. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/3/2023
  

  Pride in the South is a Story of Resistance and Resilience

  by La Shonda Mims

  In the urban south, LGBTQ residents are drawing on a half century of claiming public space through pride celebrations in the face of efforts to label them a threat to society. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/27/2023
  

  Florida's Vague Content Laws are Being Used to Intimidate Librarians

  The DeSantis administration has declined to issue clarification of the requirements of the "Don't Say Gay" and "Stop Woke" laws, which leaves school librarians fearful of potential prosecution if they leave books on their shelves. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/30/2023
  

  Fear of a Black Studies Planet

  by Roderick A. Ferguson

  A scholar whose work was named in Florida's decision not to support the AP African American Studies course discusses a long history of conservative efforts to control textbooks and teaching and, failing that, to create politically useful hysteria about indoctrination. 

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• SOURCE: Vice
  1/20/2023
  

  I Helped Thousands of Teens Affected by Book Bans—Listen to Them

  by Leigh Hurwitz

  Teens are receiving a message loud and clear from new state laws restricting the content of classrooms and libraries: Politicians want people like them to disappear. Defending access to library books is vital. 

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• SOURCE: Christianity Today
  1/13/2023
  

  Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Gets Court Win on Exemptions to Discrimination Law

  A judge dismissed a lawsuit by LGBTQ students that challenged the faith-based exemptions that Christian colleges can claim from enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. 

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• SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  12/16/2022
  

  Clark U.'s William Koelsch, Pioneering LGBTQ Historian, Dies at 89

  Beginning in the 1970s, Koelsch was one of the first professors to teach about the gay liberation movement and incorporated the HIV-AIDS crisis into his courses on health and disease. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/9/2022
  

  Are Conservative Courts Giving Professors a Right to Mistreat Transgender Students?

  by Andrew Koppelman

  Under the guise of an expansive view of "religious freedom," courts are enshrining the ability of professors to engage in discriminatory conduct. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  12/15/2022
  

  Tracing AIDS-Driven Cultural Production Across Generations

  by Mackenzie Lukenbill

  The collected papers of AIDS educator and activist Chloe Dzubilo stand as a "counter-archive," which does not just preserve a record of the past but makes it a trigger for thought and action in the present. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  12/14/2022
  

  It's Time to Be Honest About the Partisan Nature of Gun Culture

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  "The national free-for-all in which we have 120 guns for every 100 people... is deeply tied to the political ideology of today’s Republican Party. It comes from the rise of Movement Conservatism under Ronald Reagan."

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  12/13/2022
  

  New Docuseries Traces the Importance of America's Vanishing Lesbian Bars

  In 1987, there were an estimated 206 lesbian bars across the U.S. Phoenix's Boycott Bar is one of fewer than two dozen that remain today.

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  11/30/2022
  

  Reactionary Media are Fueling Anti-LGBTQ Violence

  by Ben Miller

  When the media give a platform to the idea that trans people living in public inherently encourages sexual abuse, violence aimed at removing them from the public will follow. The media need to take responsibility for Colorado Springs and call out icitement to violence. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/28/2022
  

  The "Private Little Hell" of Florida's 1950s Anti-Gay Faculty Investigations

  At least 39 faculty members were forced out of Florida universities under the Johns Committee's investigation of alleged homosexual behavior. But the figure doesn't include the other lives and careers wrecked by the crusade. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  11/28/2022
  

  Forget Apology, the Right is Doubling Down on Inciting Violence Against LGBTQ Americans

  by Thomas Lecaque

  The campaign of encouraging stochastic terror against LGBTQ communities won't be deterred by a tragedy like the Colorado Springs killings. 

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• 11/20/2022
  

  Transgender Youth Have Doubters. They Also Have History

  by Pax Attridge

  Opponents of gender-affirming medical intervention for trans youth invoke "transtrendiness" or social influence to claim that they're protecting youth from impulsively making medical decisions based on peer pressure. To accept this belief is to ignore the historical presence of transgender youth.