queer history
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Ireland’s 2nd city CORK is to get the country’s first permanent LGBTQIA+ Exhibition
Lucky Cork (or Corcaigh if you are a local), this glorious city ….. the second largest in Ireland… is not only home to the World’s only BUTTER Museum (now, could we make that up?) but it’s about to have the country’s first permanent LGBTQIA+ Exhibition. It probably wasn’t what Saint Finbar had in mind when…
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Queerguru checks out ‘Qtopia Sydney’ the largest Centre for Queer history and culture in the world.
When it comes to celebrating Queer History on a global scale, there can be no better place than Qtopia Sydney, the largest Centre for Queer history and culture in the world. It has a remarkable heritage, as the concept for Qtopia Sydney originated in the 1980s with Professor David Cooper, who envisioned a space to honour…
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Remembering the rabbis who comforted gay Jews at the height of the AIDS crisis : by Robb Layne
Members of the recently formed Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in June 1979 during the “San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.” (Joe Altman-California Historical Society) Reproduced from The Jewish News of Southern California “AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals. It is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.” These words were spoken by the televangelist…
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The BBC’s First Homosexual : when being queer in the UK was illegal and in the closet
It’s probably tough for Gen Z and gay Millennials to even imagine a time when everywhere in the world it was not only illegal to be gay, but also socially and morally unacceptable. Like in the UK in 1954, one year after a very young Queen Elizabeth just ascended to the throne, when the country’s…
