Our #QueerHistory … 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨👬

International Institute of Sexual and Gender Diversity presents:
A Gay a Day

Katharine Lee Bates
12 August 1859 –28 March 1929
Ms Bates was a songwriter. Her most famous composition was the American anthem "America the Beautiful." She was the daughter of a Congregational pastor and graduated from Wellesley College in 1880. She then stayed on as a professor of English literature. She wrote 22 books and edited over 20 others. Among her works were poetry, travel books, and children's books. In her poem “Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride” (1889) she made Ms Santa Claus a popular figure. She wrote for many periodicals under the pseudonym James Lincoln. Her partner of 25 years was Katharine Coman. Ms Coman was a history and political economy teacher and founder of the Wellesley College school of Economics.

Our #QueerHistory … 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨👬

Our #QueerHistory … 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨👬

#lgbtqhistory #queerhistory

The moral panics of today are the moral panics of yesterday. Writing on the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, historian, Jim Elledge notes:

On this day in 1988 the “#Lesbian Avengers” abseiled into the House of Lords to protest the enactment of #Section28 which banned the discussion of #homosexuality in schools.

We need more of this energy today.

The image is of activists slapping a commemorative plaque (modelled on the official English Heritage plaques) on the House of Lords in 2017 to mark the occasion (The Lords took it back down of course).

#QueerHistory #LGBTQ #History #Section35 #ThrowbackThursday

Help me help middle schoolers! Does anyone have an easy-to-digest presentation for a principal who needs help understanding what Pride Month is all about? A brief history, definitions, the purpose of celebrating it? This would be to send to a MS principal who is open-minded but old 😉, to get him on board with the concept.
#BoostForVisibility #LGBTQ #ProtectTransKids #MiddleSchoolIsHard #QueerHistory #PrideMonth

It's #lgbtHistoryMonth in the UK, and its very noticeable how its gone from widely marked to controversial in less than 5 years
The erasure of queer history is one of the ways those opposed to our rights constantly infantalise us, its a recursion of - this is new therefore this is immature - over and over again #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #queerhistory #lgbthistory

I was born in 1981. I vividly remember as a child hearing the cishet adults around me repeating in whispers to each other the myth that bisexual men were the primary AIDS vector for cishet women as if it were a fact.

from @verilybitchie

https://youtu.be/IbHhIeYL9no

#youtube #verilybitchie #bi #biromantic #bisexual #queer #aids #hiv #biphobia #queerhistory

Wusstest du, dass der #LSVD maßgeblich an der Schaffung der #Ehefüralle beteiligt war, indem er die Interessen von #LSBTIQ* dort vertreten hat? Mehr über unsere #Geschichte liest du unter: #queerhistory https://www.lsvd.de/de/ct/1173-Kleine-Geschichte-des-Lesben-und-Schwulenverbands-LSVD

My husband brought this home for me to read, Len and Cub a queer history. The real life story of two young gay men in early 20th century New Brunswick.
So far an absolutely fascinating glimpse into a deeply conservative Canada and how queer people lived.

#QueerHistory #canada #WeWereAlwaysHere

I Want What I Want (Geoff Brown) – A 1960s novel of a #transwoman growing up in the straightjacket of English society. A typically tragic tale, being very much of its era in terms of representation, but a critical part of #QueerHistory and a staple of many older #trans bookshelves.

#QueerLiterature #QueerBooks #Booktoot #Bookstodon #Books #TransBooks #Transgender

#queerhistory am #sonntag "Der Film "Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt" von Rosa von Praunheim 1970 gilt als Auslöser der #Schwulenbewegung." Wie steht es um die #gleichstellung? https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Unter-der-Regenbogenfahne-Die-Anfaenge-der-Schwulenbewegung,schwulenbewegung100.html

And anyone who wants to argue about the reclamation of "queer" is cordially invited to step on a LEGO. Despite literally having a degree in this stuff, I don't have the time, the inclination, or the crayons to do Queer 101 with y'all, especially since I know damn well many of you already know this, and are just sealioning to be obnoxious. Unless you plan to pay me for my time, go read a book or something, and stop telling lies.

/end

#queerhistory

Here's a blog/wiki on the case that uses Cam's actual name and identity: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Cam_Lyman

Note how much this episode tries to dissect Cam's identity and his goals in life while downplaying his murder as symptomatic of his transition. Compare this to this account's toot series re: The Dale (end.) #gayhistory #queerhistory #lgbtq #lgbt #gay #trans

Another classic episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" covers the existence of trans men in the most despicable, confusing ways

https://youtu.be/DMmpN6eETP8?t=1403 (cont.) #gayhistory #queerhistory #gay #queer #lgbtq #lgbt #trans

Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World (Gregory Woods) – A fascinating delve into how the #culture of #queer creatives and their informal networks (the “Homintern”) shaped and permeated western culture.
#QueerBooks #Booktoot #Bookstodon #NonFiction #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #Creative

Far from the only queer scientist organization, the work of the organization now called Out to Innovate has led to greater efforts at recognizing queer scientists and their contributions. (end.) #gayhistory #queerhistory #gay #queer #lgbtq

Ultimately, with the expansion of terminology for self-identification, the group rebranded as Out to Innovate, a queer STEM umbrella organization

As part of their work the organization today annually awards an educator, an engineer, and a scientist for their work in furthering not just the sciences but also queer visibility in the sciences (cont...) #gayhistory #queerhistory #gay #queer #lgbt

Helping draft federal guidelines that were eventually taken up by the Clinton administration, NOGLSTP's work led to the barring of discrimination against queer people in defense clearance and other federal spaces (cont...) #gayhistory #queerhistory #lgbt #gay #queer

The organization proved so successful that technical workers (the digital sciences, in other words) were incorporated into the group in purpose and name (NOGLSTP)

In addition to community success, the organization proved to be so credible that they were called in to assist in the aftermath to the High Tech Gays v. DISCO, DISCO being the Defense Investigative Security Clearance Office. The ruling, finalized in 1990, made being an out scientists difficult (cont...) #gayhistory #queerhistory