One widow's tax bill brought down DOMA. Swipe for the story of Edie Windsor, who died on this day in 2017.
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@twiqh.bsky.socialOne widow's tax bill brought down DOMA. Swipe for the story of Edie Windsor, who died on this day in 2017.
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK the ideology in #Bambi reflected #Darwin’s mistaken notion that #SexualDesire in all animals is for #StraightSex & always leads to reproduction? But animals, like humans, also enjoy #SoloSex & #QueerSex. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK Pope #AlexanderVI let Ferdinand & Isabella execute their own Inquistion? They drove Muslims & Jews out of Spain, tortured & executed #heretics/#sodomites & seized all their property, then used the $$$ to fund #ChristopherColumbus voyages. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK Theodore of Canterbury (ca.700) composed a #penitential for priests to assign penance for sexual sins from #fantasy & “#fornication” to #QueerSex #SoloSex/#masturbation, #WetDreams & #zoophilia? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com. #QueerHistory
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialRock forgot that, since its very inception, Catholicism has taught that having sex for any other reason than to start a pregnancy is a grave sin. Paul made that #DangerousChurchDoctrine infallible & irreversible. #QueerHistory #WmnHist #zoophilia Blog7
@lafemmevacita.bsky.socialHelp Lansing Queer Almanac preserve LGBTQ+ history! Volunteer to collect stories or transcribe interviews.
General meeting: Sept. 26, 11 AM at Everybody Reads. Guests welcome!
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@rossbrooks.co.ukI wrote this when QUEER ORIGINS was published in the UK. I'm reposting it now the book's out in Canada and the US. Read about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs amending. 🌈📚🦋🗃️
yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwin-... #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory
@twiqh.bsky.socialThe first American TV documentary about homosexuality aired September 11, 1961 on San Francisco's KQED. What was it called?
A. The Rejected
B. The Outsiders
C. The Quiet Ones
D. Behind Closed Doors
Drop your answer below
@twiqh.bsky.social“Your hiding will not save you.”
1882: Harry Allen: Notorious Figure in Northwest, September 11
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@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social“The Saturday Evening Post”, “Washington Sunday Star”, & others carried stories about why gays & lesbians didn't fit into the armed service—They were all mentally ill!
Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialIn 1943, Henry L. Stimson revised “Sodomists”, directing discharge, instead of courts martial, of “confirmed perverts” who did not commit violence or force, & the reclamation of those who were not “confirmed”. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK #Balboa fed #indigenous #TwoSpirit, #nonbinary people to his dogs in Panama? He spared the conquistadors who had #sex w/them. Why do so many #Christians murder them today? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #sodomy
@notchesblog.bsky.socialHe considers how materials and making practices can challenge binary understandings of gender, while also reflecting on the politics of the art/craft divide and the importance of preserving practitioners’ own voices.
@stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.socialHolmfirth, Huddersfield 1993 at Pink Picnic. ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook @pariahpress.bsky.social Photographs may not be used without permission.
@lafemmevacita.bsky.socialHelp Lansing Queer Almanac preserve LGBTQ+ history! Volunteer to collect stories or transcribe interviews.
General meeting: Sept. 26, 11 AM at Everybody Reads. Guests welcome!
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#Lansing #QueerHistory #Volunteer
@twiqh.bsky.social"At least I have the flowers of myself, and my thoughts, no god can take that"
Born September 10, 1886, the bisexual poet H.D. cut poetry down to its sharpest edge and loved exactly who she loved.
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK the army in 1941 rejected men w/“homosexual proclivities” for “psychopathic personality disorders”? Its first directive about men who seemed to be gay, Henry L. Stimson’s “Sodomy”, reminded officers that #QueerSex was a crime deserving court martial.
#QueerHistory
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK #ChristineJorgensen was the 1st U.S. #transwoman to confirm her #gender w/surgery & she became a celebrity—even Scandinavian Societies of Greater NY #WomanOfTheYear? Why are her #BlackSisters murdered today? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #QueerHistory #transhistory
