As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa to talk about her ALAA award-winning article “Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual …
Read More >From the earliest marches in 1970 to this month’s events around the Bay Area and the world, Pride has celebrated and commemorated the LGBTQ community’s culture and heritage for over 40 years. …
Read More >Timed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, “Queering Public History,” a special issue of The Public Historian, guest-edited by Melinda Marie Jetté, assesses the state …
Read More >After the raid of the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, and the six days of protests that followed, the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) formed, calling for a “fierce, full-scale assault on …
Read More >Excerpt from Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman Edited and abridged from the chapter “Equality or Liberation?” The difficulties of a gay lifestyle have generally been glossed over as inconvenient when …
Read More >As people celebrate Pride, the President, for the second year, did not recognize the celebration, while his administration works to legitimize anti-LGBTQ discrimination, such as by rolling back protections for transgender prison …
Read More >Excerpt from the prologue to Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman It is not wrong to claim that the past 50 years have marked a notable change in attitude towards sexual minorities …
Read More >adapted from Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla Boyd Each year at the end of June, San Francisco fills with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and …
Read More >by Emily K. Hobson This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Studies Association in Denver. UC Press authors share insight into their research and stories that …
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