Timothy Stewart-Winter

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Queer historian and professor at Rutgers-Newark. New book OUTED: LBJ’S CONFIDANT AND THE ARREST THAT TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENCY coming Oct 2026. Preorder links here: www.timsw.com/outed

@timothysw.bsky.social

Please read my book OUTED —not an AI summary citing “scholars” such as a random post on an alternate-history message board making claims I didn’t and would never make

Screenshot of a Meta AI summary titled "Walter Jenkins LBJ arrest" that describes Timothy Stewart-Winter's book Outed and Jenkins's 1964 arrest. A sentence in the summary is circled in red: "Scholars note Jenkins' absence may have influenced Johnson's decisions on Vietnam after 1964." Below it, the cited source is shown: a thread on alternatehistory.com titled "Lyndon Johnson's Presidency, if Walter Jenkins was not arrested," posted March 29, 2022 by a deleted member. The title is circled, as is a reply speculating about "national healthcare in 1965-66" instead of the real-world Medicare/Medicaid. A blue caption reads: "Meta AI offered to explain my own book to me. Its source for what 'scholars note'? A speculative thread on an alternate-history message board."
@timothysw.bsky.social

Great question. Well Texas voters will have a say in a few weeks. But it’s the single hardest state to vote in. Down the road, this website landing page can be restored in the future - the archive itself appears to be okay for now.