Tag: gay history
Out and About! Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute, London
Bishopsgate Institute stages a take-over of The Curve with an archive installation of objects, ephemera, and media highlighting 40 moments and stories in London’s LGBTQ+ history. Bishopsgate Institute has been collecting the lived experiences of everyday people for over a century, and their unique special collections and archives present the stories of individuals, collectives…
THE UNTOLD GAY STORIES OF AUSCHWITZ
80 percent of gay men sent to the notorious Nazi concentration camp died there – some finding love among the horror or saving the lives of others first. That’s worth remembering this Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January). Words: Hugh Kaye for Attitude UK This is an updated version of this article. With thanks to…
Historian Stephen Vider delves into LGBTQ life and the American home
THIS ARTICLE WAS REPRINTED FROM https://www.eurekalert.org/ ITHACA, N.Y. — Both academic studies and popular representations of LGBTQ history have typically focused on battles for public space and visibility. As gay liberation activists put it in the 1970s: “Out of the closets, into the street.” But the intimacy of domestic space was an equally crucial aspect…
LOVING : a photographic history of gay couples in the past
New Year’s Eve/Day is often a time of reflection for many single gay guys (and girls). Will the new year bring Mr. Right…. or even Mr Right Now? Its something that as a community we have dwelled on for decades … even centuries …. and even when it was often too tough to be…
CURED : the story of the LGBTQ activists who fought back against American Psychiatry : reviewed by Queerguru’s Ris Fatah
“Cured” is a must-see. An award-winning documentary that takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality: the very influential American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. Early US gay rights activist groups – such as the…
