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20 Of The Most Famous Same-Gender Couples That Were Left Out Of The History Books
20 Of The Most Famous Same-Gender Couples That Were Left Out Of The History Books
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Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people have of course existed throughout history, but many historical archives would like us to assume otherwise. Expert accounts have often tried to erase queer communities...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
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#OnThisDay in 1907, blues pianist, singer, performer, and drag king pioneer Gladys Bentley was born in Philadelphia. She moved to New York City at the age of 16 and began her career as a performer at Harry Hansberry's Clam House on 133rd Street, one of the city's most notorious gay speakeasies. In the early 1930s, she headlined at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tuxedo and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience.
Bentley was openly lesbian early in her career, but during the McCarthy Era in the 1950s, she started wearing dresses and married (within five months of meeting) Charles Roberts, age 28, a cook, in a civil ceremony in Santa Barbara, California, in 1952. Roberts later denied that they had ever married. Bentley also studied to be a minister, claiming to have been "cured" by taking female hormones. In an effort to describe her supposed "cure" for homosexuality she wrote an essay, "I Am a Woman Again," for Ebony magazine in which she stated she had undergone an operation, which "helped change her life again.” She died of pneumonia in 1960, aged 52. #HiddenHerstory #APeoplesJourney
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Das Schwule Museum trauert um Wolfram Setz.
Wolfram Setz, Historiker und jahrzehntelanger Aktivist, war Mitglied und Freund des Schwulen Museums. Im Laufe seiner langen Karriere hat sich Wolfram Setz vor allem für die (Wieder)Entdeckung schwuler Geschichte eingesetzt, in der von ihm seit 1991 herausgegebenen „Bibliothek Rosa Winkel“ machte er unterschiedliche Zeugnisse der Schwulenbewegung für Generationen von Leser*innen bis heute zugänglich. Eine Bibliothek kann einen Raum darstellen, der eine bessere Gesellschaft denkbar macht.
Wolfram Setz ist am 14. August 2023 im Alter von 82 Jahren verstorben. Wir wünschen den Hinterbliebenen hiermit viel Kraft.
The Schwules Museum mourns the passing of Wolfram Setz.
Wolfram Setz, historian and activist for decades, was a member and friend of the Schwules Museum. In the course of his long career, Wolfram Setz was especially committed to the (re)discovery of gay history; in the "Bibliothek Rosa Winkel" (Library Pink Triangle), which he published since 1991, he made various testimonies of the gay movement accessible to generations of readers to this day. A library can be a space that makes a better society conceivable.
Wolfram Setz passed away on August 14, 2023 at the age of 82. We hereby wish the bereaved family much strength.
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AHF • City Council Preserves Morris Kight Home, Upholding LGBTQ+ History
AHF • City Council Preserves Morris Kight Home, Upholding LGBTQ+ History
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Alok Vaid-Menon Is ‘Fighting for Trans Ordinariness’
Alok Vaid-Menon Is ‘Fighting for Trans Ordinariness’
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Countries like the U.S. and UK are exporting hate and homophobia around the world. In fact, following the recent passing of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Law, the UK acknowledged it had sent £134,000 (about $170,000 USD) in foreign aid to the Inter Religious Council of Uganda – an anti-LGBT group which may have played a role in the bill's passage.
As governments that allegedly value human rights and equality, it's crucial that taxpayer money support organizations that hold the same values.
What if your government was fueling anti-LGBT+ hate around the world? Would you hold them accountable?
Stop UK Aid money going to organisations with an anti LGBTQ agenda overseas
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I was shocked to learn that UK aid money has been given to virulently anti LGBTQ groups such as the Inter Religious Council of Uganda to the tune of £134k. This is not good use of the aid budget or U...1 CommentComment on Facebook