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11/01/2012 |
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Autobiography: Transgender and Transsexual
For the last 75 years, transgender and transsexual autobiographies have told the stories of their authors' lives and appealed for greater acceptance of transgender people.
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10/01/2012 |
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Bulldykes, Drag Queens, and Gangsters: Pre-Stonewall Activism in the City of Big Shoulders
Reviewing a new account of glbtq culture in Chicago before Stonewall, Victoria Shannon finds that while this history is not exclusively the story of bulldykes, drag queens, and gangsters, they figure prominently in it.
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10/01/2012 |
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Canadian Literature
Canadian gay and lesbian writers have produced a vibrant body of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry since the 1960s.
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09/01/2012 |
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Telling our Stories. Or Why Transformation Stories Are Important.
In a meditation on the value of telling our stories, retired Lutheran pastor and marriage equality activist Rev. Gilbert "Gib" Rossing recounts how he and his wife Beth were transformed when their two sons came out.
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09/01/2012 |
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Marriage and Family
While glbtq people have formed unions, partnerships, de facto marriages, and many kinds of families for generations, one of the greatest shifts in the history of the family began in the 1990s when queer families began to insist more vocally that they receive the same societal benefits as traditional families.
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08/01/2012 |
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Lesbian and Bisexual Female American Literature Since Stonewall
Politics is implicit in much of the Lesbian Literature that immediately followed the Stonewall Riots. The "new," reactivated, women's movement had as much to do with the tone and character of lesbian writing during these years as the developing (largely male) gay liberation movement. In more recent years, lesbian literature has grown to address more diverse themes, though much of it remains politically inflected.
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07/01/2012 |
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George Dureau: The Black Exhibition.
Artist George Dureau is best known for his male figure studies and narrative paintings in oil and charcoal and for his black-and-white photographs. The photographs presented here were included in the Black exhibition held at the Higher Pictures gallery from May 31 through July 13, 2012.
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07/01/2012 |
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Gay Male Art in America: 1900-1969
Most Gay Male American Artists Before Stonewall were closeted, but they were inventive in creating codes for those in the know. After 1945, some adventurous artists developed independent networks for the distribution of works of gay art.
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06/01/2012 |
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Lesbian Paris (ca 1900-1940)
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, Paris was a center of sexual freedom and same-sex sexual cultures. Lesbian American and European expatriates and France's own lesbian writers and artists created a Bohemian social, sexual, and creative milieu that makes this time and place unique in the history of lesbian culture.
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05/01/2012 |
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Mystery Fiction
Lesbian and Gay Mystery Fiction is an important part of the glbtq literary heritage that has burgeoned since the early 1970s.
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