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A Democrat ally schooled a GOP leader on why transgender bans make no sense
Democratic state Rep. Peter Meredith schooled GOP leader Jonathan Patterson on how transphobic laws hurt intersex people and others.
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First they came for the LGBTQ+ books: How the Nazis started burning books 90 years ago this month
LGBTQ Nation spoke with PEN America about the parallels between what happened then and what’s happening now.
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Rightwing journalist uses Nazi book-burning picture while calling LGBTQ books “filth”
The OAN reporter complained that the left wants to ban books while saying it’s the right’s “duty… to purge our schools of such filth.”
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“Gays Against Groomers” Jaimee Michell compares trans health care to Nazi human experiments
Jaimee Michell said trans-supportive doctors are like “I think Josef Mengele, I believe that was his name, you know, the Nazi doctor.”
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Commentary
The same-sex relationships hidden in classic literature are there if you know where to find them
In one example, the gender of Roman author Ovid’s lover was changed with a handwritten note inserted in the Middle Ages: “Thus you may be sure that Ovid was not a sodomite.”
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Homophobia and homosexuality during World War I
Homosexuality was lobbed as an insult during the war while gay people hid it, but sometimes it would “hide in plain sight.”
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Inconvenient truths: Potholes along the yellow brick road of LGBTQ history
The word “faggot” does not come from burning gays at the stake.
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Remembering transgender pioneer Christine Jorgensen
There was a media storm of coverage in the 1950’s after she transitioned.
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was the first gay activist
He came out of the closet before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, created the first scientific theory of homosexuality, and published the first gay magazine.
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Meet the groundbreaking lovers from pre-war Germany who pioneered ‘queer studies’
These two men helped shape the way the world viewed LGBTQ people. Do you know who they are?
