LGBTQ History
‘Home Front’ probes race, gender and sexuality in post–World War II era
February 8, 2023"It’s shocking that, more than 70 years after WW II ended, questions about states’ right to ban interracial marriage have resurfaced.”
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Gay baseball star Glenn Burke: What could have been, except for…
June 17, 2022Andrew Maraniss’s superb biography, Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke, gives a full and insightful account of the life of the first openly gay professional baseball player.
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‘The Red Raven’: A quartet of crime fiction novels ends in AIDS-era L.A.
December 27, 2021The literary world has lost an important voice that spoke not just to the LGBTQ community but to any reader who loves a good crime story with a redemptive ending. Steve Johnson’s work survives him.
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Being Black and gay in the USA: Interview with dancer Diego Mugler
June 29, 2021“I was afraid of being feminine. I just mastered this balancing act at 32 years of age. The things you may hide from some people are the same things that other people will celebrate and love,...
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Before Stonewall: Queer liberation’s Communist Party roots
June 24, 2021The groundbreaking role of Harry Hay and Mattachine in theorizing gay identity was first lost in the fog of anti-communism and again later under the pressures for queer people to assimilate to the standards and social...
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