"M, F or X? American Passports Will Soon Have Another Option for Gender."
”The State Department also will no longer require medical certification when applying for passports if applicants’ stated gender does not match other identification documents.”
"Overlooked No More: Eve Adams, Writer Who Gave Lesbians a Voice"
”In her lifetime and for many years after, Eve Adams was variously called a “novelty girl,” “a bit of an anarchist,” “the queen of the third sex,” “a self-professed ‘man-hater,’” the author of an indecent book and, finally, Passenger 847 on Transport 63 to Auschwitz. But Adams was also an outspoken gay writer and Polish Jew in an often homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant America in the 1920s and ’30s, one who published an early example of American lesbian literature written by a lesbian..”
"California bans state-funded travel to 5 states over anti-L.G.B.T.Q. laws"
”California has banned state-funded travel to Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia in response to anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation in those places. There are now 17 states under California’s ban, including Texas, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina.”
"LGBT rights and the battle for Europe's soul"
”A seemingly unbridgeable chasm is splitting the continent between countries that see LGBT rights as the core of European identity of freedom and tolerance, and those that see them as a threat to that same identity.”
Dan Royles "AIDS disappeared from public view without ending. Will covid-19 do the same?"
”In thinking of diseases just as medical problems, we allow them to fester in poor communities.”
Leslie J. Reagan, "Texas’s new abortion law threatens women’s health and well-being"
”Tacitly allowing antiabortion activists to enforce an abortion ban will lead to harassment, shaming and even violence.”
Article Spotlight
Monica B. Pearl; “A Thousand Kindred Spirits”: Reflections on AIDS Activism and Representations of AIDS in US Culture and Conversation. Radical History Review 1 May 2021; 2021 (140): 217–225. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841814
This article is one woman’s reflection on her experiences as a member of ACT UP/New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the lens of subsequent engagement in scholarship on AIDS representation in literature and visual media. Excerpted from a keynote address at a conference on the thirtieth anniversary of ACT UP at the University of York in June 2017, this essay reflects on the legacy of AIDS activism, ACT UP meetings, women and AIDS, needle exchange, safe sex workshops, the creation of the book Women, AIDS, and Activism, and queer kinship and conversation.
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Episode Spotlight
How do you come out in a religious community that loves you conditionally? What do you tell yourself about your faith and your desires when your Church views your sexuality as disordered? In this episode of Sexing History, we focus on the experiences of three gay men who were priests or seminarians in the St. Louis diocese beginning in the 1990s. Their overlapping stories, their friendships, their faith, and the ways in which they came out to themselves and each other within Catholic institutions, speak to the intertwined histories of desire and devotion.
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