In 1958, KPFA’s Elsa Knight Thompson interviewed Hal Call of the Mattachine Society and psychologist Dr. Blanche Baker, who challenged the idea that homosexuality was an illness or an abnormality.
Today, the conversation is believed to be the earliest known radio broadcast to openly discuss homosexuality.
Listen to the full program in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting courtesy of KPFA: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_28-3n20c4st80
@christineburns Did you see the Pride flags all along the Liffey?
An annual tradition, and continued by Dublin City Council partly in tribute to their late colleague, Ed Bowden, who began the initiative some years ago, and who sadly passed away in April 2021.
The U.S. Navy is considering renaming naval ships named after civil rights leaders including Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, and Lucy Stone, the abolitionist and suffragist. Here's more from @CBSNews.
#UnitedStates #USMilitary #HarveyMilk #ThurgoodMarshall #LucyStone #USHistory @histodons #Pride #LGBTQHistory #TrumpAdministration
Christine Jorgensen's story became public on December 1, 1952, when the New York Daily News ran a front-page story titled "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty." She was a pioneer for trans rights.
Assumptions about the linearity of public reception to trans identities, the idea of straightforward progress, can be disrupted not only unfortunately in the anti-trans discourse of present day, but also by unveiling primary sources on the public views of the past.
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Hopkins’ work illuminates not only how much one source can bring into question, but also works to dismantle a simple binaristic view of gender. She notes that the advert ‘suggest[s] a gender expression that resisted the binary, body-based categories of European colonizers.’
Read “Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston by Caitlin Hopkins here: https://wp.me/p6JJ6S-3Au
Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]
Alan Turing: A genius persecuted. 
His honesty about being gay led to prosecution, reflecting the harsh prejudices of his time. Let's honour his legacy by championing equality and celebrating diversity. #LGBTQHistory #EqualityForAll
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/08/a-very-camp-environment-why-alan-turing-fatefully-told-police-he-was-gay
LGBTQ+ women have always been on the frontlines for equality and this International Women's Day we acknowledge them. From suffragists like Dr. Mary Edwards Walker to activists like Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera, their impact is undeniable.
Did you know? #LGBTQ+ women helped secure voting rights as early as the 1800s!
Today, we celebrate their courage & the future they helped build.
It's the last day of LGBT+ History month and it's important to remember that people are making LGBTQ+ history every single day.
In 2023, Henry Tse and another trans man won a court case that led to trans people in Hong Kong being able to change their ID card without having had surgery.
Transgender people have always been around in society. Willmer ‘Little Ax’ Broadnax was a popular gospel singer in the 1940s. People only found out that he was transgender following his death.
You can read more about Little Ax at http://www.blackrevolutionarytheatreworkshop.org/bhm-heroes-willmer-little-ax-broadnax/
It's LGBT+ History Month in the UK, so Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate would be a timely weekend watch. It's a documentary about the Eldorado club, a safe space for LGBTQ+ people in 1920s Berlin.
You'll find the trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYDQvvkXJ1I
For more entertainment recommendations, check out our (ever growing) library: http://transactual.org.uk/entertainment/
You don't need us to tell you that trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming people have always been around. However, did you know that the ancient Mesopotamians believed in a deity with the power to change someone's gender? Her name was Innana and her priests and followers were known for their rejection of gender binaries.
#TransHistory #LGBTHM (nearly) #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Trans #Nonbinary
Yes we know it's not quite February, but we love our history Thursdays here at TransActual.
If you've not heard of Lou Sullivan, look him up. He was a gay, HIV positive, trans man and he did a huge amount for our community in the US and beyond. Lou lobbied for gay, trans men to be given access to medical transition. He was visible so that other gay, trans men could see that they weren’t alone.
#TransHistory #LGBTHM (nearly) #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Trans #Nonbinary
It's nearly LGBT History Month, but at TransActual we love our history so we're getting started early!
First a film star:
Hanan El Tawil was an Egyptian actress and is thought to be the first openly trans Arab woman to be in films and TV.
#TransHistory #LGBTHM (nearly) #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
The man who threw a pie in Anita Bryant's face
https://www.signorile.com/p/the-man-who-threw-a-pie-in-anita
Excerpt: So progress is not a straight line, so to speak. And to say Bryant may have died but had success in the end, as if she and her ideology weren’t vanquished again and again, is incorrect. What Bryant teaches us, and what we should learn after her death and looking back, is that we can’t think we’ve ever won. The moment you think you’ve won, they’ll come back with the same tired arguments.
In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK Amanda Regan (Clemson University, USA) will present “Mapping the Gay Guides”, a project investigating the development of queer spaces in the USA based on Bob Damron’s travel guides (1960s–2000s). The talk discusses the project’s data and how digital approaches, including a web-based map, can help explore the history and dynamics of LGBTQ spaces.
15 Jan., 4-6 pm (CET), online
Info & Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9443
I think more people should know the story of Lucius Beebe. He and his boyfriend Charles Clegg owned several luxurious private railway cars starting in the 40's. He was a journalist and noted fashionista who once appeared on the cover of Life magazine.
https://luciusmbeebe.wixsite.com/lucius-beebe/biography
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Continuing the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject's read-though of Stephen Turton's Before the Word Was Queer.
