Tonya D. Callaghan, “Homophobia in the hallways: LGBTQ people at risk in Catholic schools“
”Many Canadians may believe that LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination. But my research into religiously inspired homophobia and transphobia in Canadian Catholic schools since 2004 shows there are other LGBTQ-identified teachers who suffer similar fates.”
Tim Fitzsimons, “LGBTQ-inclusive bullying laws associated with fewer teen suicide attempts, study says“
”Suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth is an endemic public health issue: LGBTQ youth face more bullying and report higher levels of suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts than their straight peers, according to the National Center for Education Statistics and the Trevor Project.”
Regina Kunzel, “The Power of Queer History”
”This essay explores dynamic new work in the field of LGBT/queer history, most of it focused on the modern U.S., to consider historians’ efforts to render sexuality a “useful category of historical analysis,” illuminating the imbrication of sexuality and power across a broad range of historical narratives and fields.”
Alison Maloney, “Meet the 83-year-old gran who blogs about sex in old age… and says OAPs love sex toys“
”Joyce Williams wants the world to know that wrinklies have sex too”
Julie Moreau, “In two weeks, five states advance LGBTQ rights”
”Through executive orders and state legislatures, five states across the U.S. increased discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.”
“My life in sex: ‘I used to think HIV was a curse. Now my sex life is better than ever’“
”But while I used to think of HIV as a curse, after years of therapy and the reassurance of an ex-girlfriend, my sex life is better than ever. Before I was diagnosed, I took sex for granted. During my darkest days, I craved intimacy, but had no idea how to achieve it. Now, a new appreciation and humility has dawned on me; I enjoy sex more because I’ve learned its worth.”
Paula Schuck, “Understanding Gender in 2019 is Way Over My Head—But My Teen Girls are Helping Me Get There”
”Kids are now armed with so much more information about sexuality, gender and identity that it’s a completely different experience growing up and becoming a young adult. Which also makes it a different world parenting teens in 2019 than it was in 1985.”
Harriet Sherwood, “Sex education rules could force Haredi Jews into home schooling“
”Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parents and teachers are warning that schools may go underground and children be educated at home if the government presses ahead with guidance on teaching about same-sex relationships and gender reassignment.”
Sophie Tatum, “Rep. Tulsi Gabbard apologizes to LGBTQ community for earlier views“
”Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard issued a video apology to the LGBTQ community on Thursday, after a CNN report revealing that in the early 2000s she had touted working for her father's anti-gay organization.”
Nataliya Vasilyeva, “2 dead, 40 detained since December in alleged LGBTQ purge in Chechnya“
”LGBT activists said Monday that at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained in what has been described as a new crackdown on gay people in the Russian republic of Chechnya.”
Brandon Voss, “First U.S. National LGBTQ Center for the Arts to Open in San Francisco“
”America’s first National LGBTQ Center for the Arts will open in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Focusing on performances, public programs, and community partnerships, the Center will also serve as the first permanent home for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus since its inception more than 40 years ago.”
Ashley Welch, “Most cancer doctors don't know enough about LGBTQ patient care, study finds”
”Cancer cells don't discriminate. But when a patient who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ) is diagnosed, they may have health needs or concerns their doctors aren't expecting. ”
Article Spotlight
"Between 1951 and 1964, gay men in San Antonio organized a mock debutante pageant called Corny-ation during the city’s annual urban festival, Fiesta. Fiestas typically include multiple parades, fairs, theatrical events, and the crowning of festival royalty over a period ranging from ten days to two weeks. Like many festivals in southwestern cities, San Antonio’s event relies on the historical pageantry of the western frontier, a romanticized representation of Spanish history, and stories of racialized conquest. I argue that gay men took advantage of Fiesta organizers’ attempts to broaden the event’s appeal to middle-class publics in the 1950s to position Corny-ation as an event for the common man, for the “little people” of San Antonio. During Fiesta, Corny-ation was attended by a public audience of thousands and reviewed in local newspapers, dramatically increasing gay visibility. Corny-ation designers and organizers brought a camp aesthetic to a public audience that resonated throughout the growing gay and lesbian community in the city’s public sphere and rendered that community visible to some heterosexual observers."
Episode Spotlight
For years, telephone companies had been encouraging customers to “reach out and touch someone.” In the 1980s, phone sex lines and dial-a-porn transformed the intimacy of phone conversations into a multi-million-dollar sexual enterprise. A simple and relatively cheap phone call could connect you with dial-a-porn, a telephone service offering short erotic recordings. Phone sex lines were more expensive, and featured operators, known as fantasy artists, who would act out sexual fantasies for and with you. Over the course of the 1980s, telephones, credit cards and imaginations brought countless people together to co-create sexual fantasies, and experience new forms of sexual gratification.
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American Historical Association’s AHR Interview, “Regina Kunzel on Her Article ‘The Power of Queer History’“
”In this episode we speak with historian Regina Kunzel, whose review essay titled “The Power of Queer History” appears in the December 2018 issue of the AHR.”
