Gad Beck
Gad Beck was the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. He died just before his 89th birthday. Under the Nazi regime, he famously dressed-up as a Hitler Youth member, and...
View ArticleLynn Conway on Transitioning in 1968
She wrote the piece as a result of going to the White House for the Pride Month Reception. Shamed as a social outcast, I’d lost my family, my friends and all social support. I’d been fired by IBM, and...
View ArticleDear Brandon: 20 Years Ago Today…
20 years ago tonight Brandon Teena was murdered. Two friends, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine, were killed with him. 20 years ago the trans community protested that Brandon was not killed because he was...
View ArticleAwesome Show on Gender
I just listened to this awesome show on gender, sexuality, and identity on BackStory. Highlights: great discussion of “two spirit” and the way it maps and doesn’t onto non-indigenous gender &...
View ArticleObscenity Trial
On this day in 1928 police seized 800 copies of Radclyffe Hall’s lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness. It would be put on trial as obscenity later in 1928 under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857;...
View ArticleTrans Stonewall
I found this article denying the importance of trans involvement at Stonewall which states, in part: This point does not deny that drag queens participated in the riot. They did. It only makes the...
View ArticleTrans Exhibit Takes OutHistory.org’s 1st Place
OutHistory.org announced the winners of its “Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest” on Monday, June 28, exactly 41 years after Stonewall and 1st place went to a trans oriented exhibit. 1st –...
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Nothing New Under the Sun
To a lot of people, transgender identities are new, some emerging idea that’s only happened in the modern era, & to some degree, that’s true: without the discovery of hormones (turn of the last...
View ArticlePride and Memory
One of the things I find interesting about teaching (and being aunt to) people who are around 20 years old is that most of them did not grow up in a world where no one they knew was gay. For folks of...
View ArticleHelp Fund Upstairs Inferno Documentary
If you don’t know about the fire that was set in a gay bar in New Orleans in 1973, you should. The footage, photographs, and even the description of the events are hard to see and read. Very, very...
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