Queer History: April
For my fellow Texans, April hasn’t given us many “showers” the last few years, but we can still approach May with a bouquet of a thousand queer flowers blooming. Rain or shine, no month passes without us making history! »
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Queer History: March
Doing something a little different this time with queer history this month by reaching not only into the distant past, but also taking a look into the future. And I want to use this space at least the once to raise questions about how we think about our own history, who we include, exclude, what any of it means to us today. »
More Worthy Than Others
According to Republicans in the US House of Representatives, this is how who deserves protection from domestic abuse should be determined. Before extending protection to women, it is the job of government, apparently, to carefully weigh which women are fully worthy of that protection. Their grave deliberations concluded, we know now that queer women, trans women, undocumented and Native women are ... »
Queer History: February
Special greetings to any queer siblings across The Pond, as February is the UK’s month of choice for celebrating our shared history! And while that’s wonderful, I think we ought pay closer attention to the fact that it is also Black History Month in the United States, and make a point of honoring LGBT African Americans. While ideally their contributions and lives would never be forgott... »
Fallen Women
That’s what we used to be called in another era of sex work prohibition, “rehabilitation”, during another national scare and shame. The Industrial Era brought with it a new kind of sex worker, better suited to capitalism and the phenomenon of interchangeable parts, and “fallen woman” was the euphemism of choice for her then. Not chosen by her, of course, but assigned to her, just as she would be a... »
Queer History: January
So how have those New Year’s resolutions held up? If you’re forced to admit you’ve faltered or slipped, take inspiration from more figures and facts from our shared queer history, and resolve anew. »
Queer History: Holiday Edition
That time of year when our thoughts turn to time spent with family and/or loved ones. May we all be among those lucky enough to say “and” more than “or”, but fact remains, being queer often means we have “coercively assigned relatives at birth”! Let’s do a two-fer this go round and take a look at the fabulous folks and events that defined November and Dece... »
Empty Chairs
Empty Chairs Clint Eastwood may have provoked no end of hilarity with his performance at the Republican National Convention (and jokes about which one was more wooden during the show, him or the chair he addressed), but there was nothing weird about it. When we leave out the partisan reasons one group or another may have laughed over this display, what’s funny about it is simply that Eastwood made... »
