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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: americanarchive.org/catalog/cp

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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: 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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/15/vulture-the-list-keepers/

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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.

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

The man who threw a pie in Anita Bryant's face
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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.

The Signorile Report · The man who threw a pie in Anita Bryant's faceBy Michelangelo Signorile

👉 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
ℹ️ Info & Abstract: dhistory.hypotheses.org/9443