queer history
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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…
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‘From Buggery to Blasphemy: Gay News UK’ Revisited by Bob Workman and Keith Howes
In London in the 1970’s (yes, some of us are that old!), the burgeoning gay community, still reeling from the fact that in 1969 homosexuality was finally decriminalized (well, for men 21 and over) and they were desperate to find ways/avenues to celebrate being queer. In those days, almost a decade before personal computers started…
