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  1. Reinaldo Arenas wrote five books on toilet paper smuggled out of Castro's prisons. Tony Kushner gave the AIDS crisis its theater. Jewelle Gomez wrote Black lesbian vampires who refused to die politely. The thread: people too small to be expected to matter, mattering anyway.
    twp.ai/4hrVa6
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily

  2. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  3. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  4. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  5. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  6. Adrienne Rich named heterosexuality as an institution — not a default — in 1980. Forty-six years before a pastor tried to call its opposite a pathogen. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums as a queer man who refused to be made smaller. We hold their names like tools.
    #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #PoetryMatters #QueerCulture #Representation #VisibleHistory #ThistleAndMoss

  7. Adrienne Rich called heterosexuality an institution in 1980. Freddie Mercury filled stadiums refusing to shrink. We're still here. #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #AdrienneRich #FreddieMercury #Resistance #LGBTQHistory #ThistleAndMoss https://twp.ai/4hrJ8U

  8. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  9. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  10. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  11. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  12. Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.

    twp.ai/4hrM5T

    #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism

  13. Three names when institutions show their seams: Frank O'Hara wrote 500 poems on lunch napkins in a city with laws against him. Radclyffe Hall's banned lesbian novel outlived every magistrate. Gertrude Stein listened to herself. The work survives.
    twp.ai/4hr6vu
    #Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit

  14. Three names when institutions show their seams: Frank O'Hara wrote 500 poems on lunch napkins in a city with laws against him. Radclyffe Hall's banned lesbian novel outlived every magistrate. Gertrude Stein listened to herself. The work survives.
    twp.ai/4hr6vu
    #Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit

  15. Three names when institutions show their seams: Frank O'Hara wrote 500 poems on lunch napkins in a city with laws against him. Radclyffe Hall's banned lesbian novel outlived every magistrate. Gertrude Stein listened to herself. The work survives.
    twp.ai/4hr6vu
    #Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit

  16. Three names when institutions show their seams: Frank O'Hara wrote 500 poems on lunch napkins in a city with laws against him. Radclyffe Hall's banned lesbian novel outlived every magistrate. Gertrude Stein listened to herself. The work survives.
    twp.ai/4hr6vu
    #Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit

  17. Three names when institutions show their seams: Frank O'Hara wrote 500 poems on lunch napkins in a city with laws against him. Radclyffe Hall's banned lesbian novel outlived every magistrate. Gertrude Stein listened to herself. The work survives.
    twp.ai/4hr6vu
    #Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit

  18. In 1972, Jeanne Manford walked the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade with her son Morty and a handmade sign: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' Letters came from everywhere. PFLAG was the direct result. She lived to see marriage equality. Eight words. One movement. The love that got there first.
    twp.ai/4hrC82
    #JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss

  19. Jeanne Manford made a sign and walked her son through the 1972 Pride parade: 'Parents of Gays: Unite.' PFLAG was the result. Eight words on cardboard started a movement. https://twp.ai/9OWRK6 #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #GayRights #JeanneManford

  20. Leonard Matlovich: Bronze Star, Vietnam. Handed his CO a letter saying he was gay — discharged. Tombstone: 'Medal for killing two men. Discharge for loving one.' https://twp.ai/9OWRJz #LeonardMatlovich #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #GayRights #QueerVets

  21. Leonard Matlovich: Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Vietnam veteran. In 1975 he handed his CO a letter saying he was gay — discharged anyway. His tombstone: 'Medal for killing two men. Discharge for loving one.' Honor and exclusion running on the same institutional fuel.
    twp.ai/4hrC7v
    #LeonardMatlovich #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #GayRights #QueerVeterans #MilitaryPride #QueerActivism #AIDSHistory #NeverForget #ThistleAndMoss

  22. Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie

    SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)

    Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)

    Free online via Project MUSE

    @litstudies

    9/10

    muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/9

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #20thcentury #modernism #queer #queerlit #queerhistory #ComptonMackenzie

  23. Harry Hay named a people before they knew they needed naming. Michael Callen wrote harm reduction in 1983 while the government wouldn't say AIDS. Assoto Saint archived Black gay poetry through the plague at thirty-six years old. None of them waited for permission. Neither do we.
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHeroes #HarryHay #MichaelCallen #AssotoSaint #LGBTQIA #Pride

    twp.ai/4hqysM

  24. Harry Hay named a people before they knew they needed naming. Michael Callen wrote harm reduction in 1983 while the government wouldn't say AIDS. Assoto Saint archived Black gay poetry through the plague at thirty-six years old. None of them waited for permission. Neither do we.
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHeroes #HarryHay #MichaelCallen #AssotoSaint #LGBTQIA #Pride

    twp.ai/4hqysM

  25. Harry Hay named a people before they knew they needed naming. Michael Callen wrote harm reduction in 1983 while the government wouldn't say AIDS. Assoto Saint archived Black gay poetry through the plague at thirty-six years old. None of them waited for permission. Neither do we.
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHeroes #HarryHay #MichaelCallen #AssotoSaint #LGBTQIA #Pride

    twp.ai/4hqysM

  26. Harry Hay named a people before they knew they needed naming. Michael Callen wrote harm reduction in 1983 while the government wouldn't say AIDS. Assoto Saint archived Black gay poetry through the plague at thirty-six years old. None of them waited for permission. Neither do we.
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHeroes #HarryHay #MichaelCallen #AssotoSaint #LGBTQIA #Pride

    twp.ai/4hqysM

  27. Harry Hay named a people before they knew they needed naming. Michael Callen wrote harm reduction in 1983 while the government wouldn't say AIDS. Assoto Saint archived Black gay poetry through the plague at thirty-six years old. None of them waited for permission. Neither do we.
    #QueerHistory #LGBTQHeroes #HarryHay #MichaelCallen #AssotoSaint #LGBTQIA #Pride

    twp.ai/4hqysM

  28. Am 3. Mai 1945 erschossen SS-Wachmänner 61 Häftlinge im Surtal, im Landkreis #Traunstein. Zum Gedenken der Opfer hielt Albert Knoll vom @queerarchivemunich eine Rede:

    "Ich stehe hier, weil ich warnen möchte; ich stehe hier als ein Vertreter der queeren Community, die sich nicht mehr verstecken will, die protestiert, weil sie mehr und mehr ihre Rechte in Gefahr sieht."

    forummuenchen.org/blog/2026/05

    #queerhistory #lgbthistory #bayern

  29. Am 3. Mai 1945 erschossen SS-Wachmänner 61 Häftlinge im Surtal, im Landkreis #Traunstein. Zum Gedenken der Opfer hielt Albert Knoll vom @queerarchivemunich eine Rede:

    "Ich stehe hier, weil ich warnen möchte; ich stehe hier als ein Vertreter der queeren Community, die sich nicht mehr verstecken will, die protestiert, weil sie mehr und mehr ihre Rechte in Gefahr sieht."

    forummuenchen.org/blog/2026/05

    #queerhistory #lgbthistory #bayern

  30. Am 3. Mai 1945 erschossen SS-Wachmänner 61 Häftlinge im Surtal, im Landkreis #Traunstein. Zum Gedenken der Opfer hielt Albert Knoll vom @queerarchivemunich eine Rede:

    "Ich stehe hier, weil ich warnen möchte; ich stehe hier als ein Vertreter der queeren Community, die sich nicht mehr verstecken will, die protestiert, weil sie mehr und mehr ihre Rechte in Gefahr sieht."

    forummuenchen.org/blog/2026/05

    #queerhistory #lgbthistory #bayern

  31. Am 3. Mai 1945 erschossen SS-Wachmänner 61 Häftlinge im Surtal, im Landkreis #Traunstein. Zum Gedenken der Opfer hielt Albert Knoll vom @queerarchivemunich eine Rede:

    "Ich stehe hier, weil ich warnen möchte; ich stehe hier als ein Vertreter der queeren Community, die sich nicht mehr verstecken will, die protestiert, weil sie mehr und mehr ihre Rechte in Gefahr sieht."

    forummuenchen.org/blog/2026/05

    #queerhistory #lgbthistory #bayern

  32. Am 3. Mai 1945 erschossen SS-Wachmänner 61 Häftlinge im Surtal, im Landkreis #Traunstein. Zum Gedenken der Opfer hielt Albert Knoll vom @queerarchivemunich eine Rede:

    "Ich stehe hier, weil ich warnen möchte; ich stehe hier als ein Vertreter der queeren Community, die sich nicht mehr verstecken will, die protestiert, weil sie mehr und mehr ihre Rechte in Gefahr sieht."

    forummuenchen.org/blog/2026/05

    #queerhistory #lgbthistory #bayern

  33. José Sarria got 5,613 votes running for office in 1961 while his city arrested people like him. Sang them out the door every Sunday. That sound is still moving through the air. https://twp.ai/9OWGnl #QueerHistory #SanFrancisco #Resistance #Drag #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA

  34. José Sarria got 5,613 votes running for office in 1961 while his city arrested people like him. Sang them out the door every Sunday. That sound is still moving through the air. https://twp.ai/9OWGnl #QueerHistory #SanFrancisco #Resistance #Drag #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA

  35. "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." — José Sarria. He ran for office in 1961 while his city arrested people like him. Got 5,613 votes. Sang them out the door every Sunday. That sound is still moving through the air. You are part of that frequency.

    twp.ai/4hr1bh

    #JoséSarria #QueerHistory #SilenceIsDanger #DragHistory #SanFrancisco #Resistance #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

  36. The administration calls it a "little detour." One hundred seventy-four civilians dead. Twenty-five billion dollars. Zero congressional votes. When the past RNC chair calls it war crimes, you're not reading partisan screed—you're reading a smoke alarm. The land is keeping score. It always has.

    twp.ai/4hr1bc

    #Politics #War #Accountability #QueerHistory #ClimateJustice #Resistance #VotingRights #ClimateScience #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

  37. 174 dead. $25B spent. Zero votes. The RNC chair calls it war crimes. The room laughed when "empathy" was said. They forfeited that word. We're still here. https://twp.ai/9OWGng #War #Politics #QueerHistory #Accountability #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA

  38. Arnold Dahl-Wooley drove a truck for 19 years teaching Two-Spirit identity. Now he has a brick-and-mortar center in Bemidji. The kleptocrats erased Two-Spirit from federal databases. They can’t erase a building with a doorknob.
    Read the full reckoning here: twp.ai/4hr4K0
    Tha do chorp a’ cuimhneachadh. Your body remembers.
    #TwoSpirit #QueerHistory #CommunityBuilding #DruidPath

  39. Essex Hemphill. Del Martin. Barbara Gittings. Three people who made institutions deal with the actual thing, not the projection. Their names, their numbers, their quotes — today's Daily Gathering. twp.ai/9OUzae #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #QueerHeroes #DailyGathering