'Books featurg gay people reprent historil accuracy ... [and] are need to help kids see a world beyond their hometown,' says a former teacher.
Contents:
- THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I WAS A CLOSETED GAY TEACHER. TEXTBOOKS WH LGBTQ+ FIGUR MATTER TO GAY STUNTS
- THE COMMTEE ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HISTORY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * gay historians *
While he ially lost an electn for the San Francis Board of Supervisors, Milk would ntue to serve his lol gay muny through other means, foundg the San Francis Gay Democratic Club and eventually wng a seat on the Board of Supervisors. Johnson then beme a -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front and Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari, workg to provi shelter and safety to trans youth via STAR Hoe and beg a prolific performer—unfortunately, Johnson was found ad the Hudson River 1992, and while police led her ath a suici, iends and many observers spect foul play led to the revolutnary figure's untimely passg.
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
Christa B. Hanhardt Among the first lsons stctors teach lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) history class is about the changg fns and of the word queer. Up through the neteenth century the word was primarily ed to mark dividuals nsired odd or outsi social norms. Queer rried particular currency sndal om the * gay historians *
For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans. It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years.
That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist. Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End).
In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band. Pop star Harry Styl is starrg new film My Policeman as a closeted gay officer the 1950s (Cred: Getty Imag)"What we see all through history is that people are nied their past as part of a way to ntrol them, " says Hornby. Image ptn, Claire Pickerg Wakefield library imag the diary wrer speakg a Yorkshire accentA diary wrten by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is beg hailed as providg remarkable evince of tolerance towards homosexualy Bra much earlier than prevly imaged.
THE 200-YEAR-OLD DIARY THAT'S REWRG GAY HISTORY
A Yorkshire farmer's journal om 1810 reveals surprisgly morn views on beg gay. * gay historians *
Historians om Oxford Universy have been taken aback to disver that Matthew Tomlson's diary om 1810 ntas such open-md views about same-sex attractn beg a "natural" human diary challeng prenceptns about what "ordary people" thought about homosexualy - showg there was a bate about whether someone really should be discrimated agast for their sexualy. "In this excg new disvery, we see a Yorkshire farmer argug that homosexualy is nate and somethg that shouldn't be punished by ath, " says Oxford rearcher Eamonn O' ptn, The diari were handwrten by Tomlson the farmhoe where he lived and workedThe historian had been examg Tomlson's handwrten diari, which have been stored Wakefield Library sce the thoands of pag of the private journals have never been transcribed and prevly ed by rearchers terted Tomlson's eye-wns acunts of electns Yorkshire and the Ludd smashg up O'Keeffe me across what seemed, for the era of Gee III, to be a rather startlg set of arguments about same-sex relatnships.
Tomlson had been prompted by what had been a big sex sndal of the day - which a well-rpected naval surgeon had been found to be engagg homosexual ptn, Historian Eamonn O'Keeffe says the diari provi a rare sight to the views of "ordary people" the early 1800sA urt martial had orred him to be hanged - but Tomlson seemed unnvced by the cisn, qutng whether what the papers lled an "unnatural act" was really that unnatural.
"It mt seem strange ed that God Almighty should make a beg wh such a nature, or such a fect nature; and at the same time make a cree that if that beg whom he had formed, should at any time follow the dictat of that Nature, wh which he was formed, he should be punished wh ath, " he wrote on January 14 there was an "clatn and propensy" for someone to be homosexual om an early age, he wrote, " mt then be nsired as natural, otherwise as a fect nature - and if natural, or a fect nature; seems cel to punish that fect wh ath" diarist mak reference to beg rmed by others that homosexualy is apparent om an early age - suggtg that Tomlson and his social circle had been talkg about this se and discsg somethg that was not unknown to this time, and also Wt Yorkshire, a lol landowner, Anne Lister, was wrg a d diary about her lbian relatnships - wh her story told the televisn seri, Gentleman knowg what "ordary people" really thought about such behavur is always difficult - not least bee the loust survivg voic are ually the wealthy and has exced amics is the chance to eavdrop on an everyday farmer thkg aloud his source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Tomlson was appalled by the levels of rptn durg electns"What's strikg is that he's an ordary guy, he's not a member of the bohemian circl or an tellectual, " says O'Keeffe, a doctoral stunt Oxford's history acceptance of homosexualy might have been exprsed privately aristocratic or philosophilly radil circl - but this was beg discsed by a ral worker. O'Keeffe says shows ias were "perlatg through Brish society much earlier and more wily than we'd expect" - wh the diary workg through the bat that Tomlson might have been havg wh his the were still far om morn liberal views - and O'Keeffe says they n be extremely "jarrg" someone was homosexual by choice, rather than by nature, Tomlson was ready to nsir that they should still be punished - proposg stratn as a more morate optn than the ath ptn, Tomlson's former home was still there the 1930s (bottom left), but has sce disappeared beneath hog and a golf urseO'Keeffe says disverg evince of the kds of bate has both "enriched and plited" what we know about public opn this pre-Victorian diary is raisg ternatnal Fara Dabhoiwala, om Prceton Universy the US, an expert the history of attus towards sexualy, scrib as "vivid proof" that "historil attus to same-sex behavur uld be more sympathetic than is ually prumed".
LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I WAS A CLOSETED GAY TEACHER. TEXTBOOKS WH LGBTQ+ FIGUR MATTER TO GAY STUNTS
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Instead of seeg homosexualy as a "horrible perversn", Prof Dabholwala says the rerd showed a farmer 1810 uld see as a "natural, dively ordaed human qualy" Norton, an expert gay history, said there had been earlier arguments fendg homosexualy as natural - but the were more likely to be om philosophers than farmers. Anthony Corbett Sullivan, a gay man and Atralian cizen livg the Uned Stat the early 1970s, challenged the Immigratn and Naturalizatn Service’s (INS) efforts to port him, first based on his claim that he would be persecuted for his sexualy Atralia; and later based on his same-sex marriage to his partner Richard Frank Adams, which was performed 1975 Colorado, a state that issued marriage licens to gay upl at the time.
Includ here are photopi of approximately 2, 200 documents om FBI Headquarters and var regnal offic, relatg primarily to the Dghters of Bilis, Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Liberatn Front, and the Mattache Society, addn to x, summari, and var statistil analys of the documents. A few exampl of the ntent this archive offers clus newsletters that document the Gay Gam, an Olympic-style athletic event; newsletters om profsnal groups like the Bay Area Network of Gay and Lbian Edutors (BANGLE), Bay Area Career Women, and the Goln Gate Bs Associatn; newsletters om the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) San Francis, the first church wh a primary, posive mistry to the LGBT muny. Groups like Lavenr Senrs of the East Bay, SAGE (Senrs Active a Gay Environment), and the Prime Timers (an ternatnal anizatn for homosexual men over 40) reprent the effects of mographic shifts and agg on the LGBT populatn.
THE COMMTEE ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HISTORY
Documents the llectn prent rearch and statistics that track levels of discrimatn agast people wh a homosexual orientatn, LGBTQ muni' awarens of their rights, the numbers of same-sex upl, fai/parents, sexual behavr patterns, and much more. Policy and legislative documents ver ccial legislatn to drive the Gay Rights Movement forward, cludg the legalizatn of male and female homosexualy; implementatn of same-sex marriage legislatn; approach to tacklg sexualy-based discrimatn and harassment; and monorg LGBTQ rights, particularly for asylum seekers jurisdictns where the tradn or relig beliefs rult the persecutn of the muni.
Origally found the Uned Kgdom 1976 as the Gay Christian Movement, the Lbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) supported homosexual Christians experiencg discrimatn wh their church, urged nomatns to reexame doctr ncerng homosexualy, advoted for civil rights wh the church and through legislatn, and worked wh other groups. Mastream publitns clu issu of the Gay Communy News, a Boston weekly newspaper wh a natnal reach and that for a time served as the movement’s unofficial “paper of rerd;” Out Front, a daily news and entertament paper that is the send-olst pennt LGBTQ publitn the Uned Stat; and Frontiers Newsmagaze, Southern California’s olst LGBTQ newsmagaze.
The publitns pat a varied picture of LGBT life the late twentieth century by featurg stori of public figur g out, bullets on AIDS, articl about gay acceptance the ary, and stori about gay partnerships, same-sex marriage, and fay life. Established 1979, the Gay and Lbian Stunt Unn (GLSU) of Los Angel Cy College (LACC) anized a seri of speakers for a gay history month, advoted for the cln of gay studi urs at LACC, marched the gay pri para, and tablished a Harvey Milk Memorial Scholarship Fund for gay and lbian stunts. Found 1983, the Multi–ethnic Gay and Lbian Exchange (MEG/LE) was a aln of gay and lbian people of lor anizatns Los Angel, which clud reprentativ om Black and Whe Men Together, Asian/Pacific Lbians and Gays, Gay and Lbian Latos Unidos, Lbians of Color, and other groups.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Three publitns om Lambda Archiv of San Diego provi a ep and powerful history of the LGBT muny om the late twentieth century to the begng of the twenty-first century and is a great rource to enhance the study of gay history. While the typ of materials are generally tend for sgle e, and equently do not survive beyond the activi they were signed to promote, the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv has curated a substantial poster llectn, prervg the wdows on LGBTQ history for future generatns.
The SCCRH provid an extensive program of monthly lectur, discsn groups, and rmal meetgs of clergymen, church members, and members of the LGBT muny; retreats and nferenc explorg homosexualy and relign; "exposure tn" for non-homosexual clergy and church members to learn about aspects of LGBT culture; assistance to church velopg polici relatg to homosexualy and relign, and to homosexual law reform; and trag for unselors, teachers, clergy, and others who unseled homosexuals.