This is the grave of Leonard Matlovich. Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1943, Matlovich grew up in a military family. He was born on a base and moved around with his parents as a child. By the time he was a teenager, the father was...
gay rights
Speaking of the attempt to roll back gay rights, let's go to Italy, where the spirit of Mussolini, especially in the cities of northern Italy, never died and has now.
Like I mentioned the other day with the recently departed Freedom Rider Catherine Burke-Brooks, one of the things that we can learn from past struggles for justice is just how.
San Diego, CA - July 16: Parade participants march down the parade route on Saturday, July 16, 2022 in San Diego, CA., proudly displaying the Pride flag during San Diego Pride 2022. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune) Tonight, let's watch this footage...
Singer and anti-gay activist Anita Bryant is heading up a crusade to nullify a local gay rights ordinance, Feb. 15, 1977. Bryant calls the group "Save Our Children" and vows.
One of the depressing things of this month is watching corporations completely cave in the face of even the slightest protest against them supporting Pride. I guess they got to.
Good piece by the historian David Johnson on the "lavender scare" of the 1950s in the context of the new Republican war on trans people. At first the State Department denied harboring any communists, but later admitted to firing 91 “homosexuals.” This admission seemed to...
Like you may have, I raised my eyebrow when I heard the same-sex marriage bill is being postponed until after the November elections. But Grace Segers at The New Republic.
Clela Rorex, shown here in her office while she was serving as Boulder County clerk in 1975, says she didn't anticipate the hate-filled response after she issued marriage licenses to.
One reason, I think anyway, that so many people look to corporations as places of activism today is that the government is immobile and social movements are weak. So putting corporate pressure on evil actors seems effective. Around the margins, it can be. But a...
This is the grave of Jim Graham. Born in 1945 in Wishaw, Scotland (I know the gravestone says 1944 but everywhere else it says 1945 so I don't know), Graham.
Trumpism (or is DeSantisism more appropriate now) gives ExxonMobil a chance to not only destroy the Earth but start oppressing its gay employees again, just like the good old days..