#queerhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #queerhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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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.
https://twp.ai/4hrVa6
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #ReinaldoArenas #TonyKushner #JewelleGomez #QueerLit #LiteraryHistory #Queer #Trans #ChosenFamily -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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
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Davis. Sylvester. Jordan. None asked if the room was ready. https://twp.ai/9OWbHX #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #queerhistory #Blackhistory #civilrights #resistance
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Davis. Sylvester. Jordan. None asked if the room was ready. https://twp.ai/9OWbHX #AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #queerhistory #Blackhistory #civilrights #resistance
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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.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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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.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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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.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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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.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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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.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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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.
https://twp.ai/4hr6vu
#Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit -
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.
https://twp.ai/4hr6vu
#Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit -
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.
https://twp.ai/4hr6vu
#Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit -
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.
https://twp.ai/4hr6vu
#Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit -
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.
https://twp.ai/4hr6vu
#Queer #LGBTQ #Poetry #FrankOHara #RadclyffeHall #GertrudeStein #QueerHistory #Pride #Resistance #Lit -
Today's Live show with Brandon @brandonellrich.substack.com (bsky) and Miranda @thepoetmiranda.bsky.social (bsky)
#SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Politics #MentalHealth #LGBTQIA #Progress #Writing #QueerResistance #TransRights #MutualAid #QueerHistory #PlantMedicine
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Today's Live show with Brandon @brandonellrich.substack.com (bsky) and Miranda @thepoetmiranda.bsky.social (bsky)
#SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Politics #MentalHealth #LGBTQIA #Progress #Writing #QueerResistance #TransRights #MutualAid #QueerHistory #PlantMedicine
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Today's Live show with Brandon @brandonellrich.substack.com (bsky) and Miranda @thepoetmiranda.bsky.social (bsky)
#SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Politics #MentalHealth #LGBTQIA #Progress #Writing #QueerResistance #TransRights #MutualAid #QueerHistory #PlantMedicine
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Today's Live show with Brandon @brandonellrich.substack.com (bsky) and Miranda @thepoetmiranda.bsky.social (bsky)
#SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Politics #MentalHealth #LGBTQIA #Progress #Writing #QueerResistance #TransRights #MutualAid #QueerHistory #PlantMedicine
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Today's Live show with Brandon @brandonellrich.substack.com (bsky) and Miranda @thepoetmiranda.bsky.social (bsky)
#SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Politics #MentalHealth #LGBTQIA #Progress #Writing #QueerResistance #TransRights #MutualAid #QueerHistory #PlantMedicine
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https://twp.ai/9OWLy0 Today's Live show with Brandon @[email protected] (bsky) and Miranda @[email protected] (bsky) #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Politics #MentalHealth #LGBTQIA #Progress #Writing #QueerResistance #TransRights #MutualAid #QueerHistory #PlantMedicine
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https://twp.ai/9OWLy0 Today's Live show with Brandon @[email protected] (bsky) and Miranda @[email protected] (bsky) #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Politics #MentalHealth #LGBTQIA #Progress #Writing #QueerResistance #TransRights #MutualAid #QueerHistory #PlantMedicine
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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.
https://twp.ai/4hrC82
#JeanneManford #PFLAG #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #Pride #QueerActivism #QueerParents #GayRights #ThistleAndMoss -
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
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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
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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.
https://twp.ai/4hrC7v
#LeonardMatlovich #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #GayRights #QueerVeterans #MilitaryPride #QueerActivism #AIDSHistory #NeverForget #ThistleAndMoss -
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
9/10https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #20thcentury #modernism #queer #queerlit #queerhistory #ComptonMackenzie
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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
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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
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"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.
#JoséSarria #QueerHistory #SilenceIsDanger #DragHistory #SanFrancisco #Resistance #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+
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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.
#Politics #War #Accountability #QueerHistory #ClimateJustice #Resistance #VotingRights #ClimateScience #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+
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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
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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: https://twp.ai/4hr4K0
Tha do chorp a’ cuimhneachadh. Your body remembers.
#TwoSpirit #QueerHistory #CommunityBuilding #DruidPath -
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. https://twp.ai/9OUzae #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #QueerHeroes #DailyGathering
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History isn’t always told the way it should be.
Article link: https://afterdarktreasures.com/blogs/everything-lgbtqia/the-untold-truth-what-we-owe-lesbians
Discover the powerful, often overlooked role lesbians played.....
#lgbtqhistory #lgbtq #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #pride #gay #lesbian #gayhistory #lgbtqia #bisexual #lgbthistory #lgbtqcommunity #loveislove #transgender #gaypride #instagay #lgbtqpride #lgbtqsupport #lgbtqyouth #lgbtqfamily #trans #pridemonth #queerculture #lgbtqtravel #lgbtqplus #queerheritage #lgbtqrights #lgbtqhistorymonth #Stonewall