🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈Day one of LGBTQ history month – the dress code for one of the earliest public demonstrations by openly gay people in 1965. Read more here: https://t.co/k6nAjWLsjF 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 @BobSkiba @WayGay pic.twitter.com/b8vQuzSDTH
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 2, 2021
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️Day two of #LGBTQ History Month is ALL Pauli Murray. Their papers (including this photo album) are at #SchlesingerLibrary @RadInstitute + New documentary is GREAT –> #MyNameIsPauliMurray @ProfessorCrunk + (45 records are scanned –> https://t.co/j8CrflfzCQ) 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ pic.twitter.com/xt4yZBKd9C
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 2, 2021
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Day three of #LGBTQ History month celebrates the gay press. Here, pioneering journalist @TracyBaimWCMG took on the absurd 2000 scientific study correlating homosexuality to index fingers @kateclinton & @jessicahalem More on Tracy here–> https://t.co/3sRMpS1nWn 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ pic.twitter.com/g5lcOxEj4f
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 3, 2021
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈Day four of #LGBTQ History month is for Japanese poet Yone Noguchi. Below is his 1919 poem "Hokku." I loved learning about him in "Queer Compulsions" by @AmySueyoshi who also wrote this short piece –> https://t.co/XVQpK0aHo4 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/p243mqUFUI
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 4, 2021
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 "Your silence will not protect you" — Day five of #LGBTQ History Month — Listen to Audre Lorde reading her poems on Feb. 23, 1977 (55 minutes) –>> https://t.co/el6GA29Qq7 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/xPDpkOTiUW
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 5, 2021
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Day six of #LGBTQ history month – one of my favorite children's books of all time "The Tom-Boy who was changed into a Real Boy" (1859) @AmAntiquarian @OutHistory. Most references to gender transing in the 19th century were about children, FYI https://t.co/2P2kS2mh0Z 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ pic.twitter.com/mPsD4kvvXg
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 6, 2021
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈Day seven #LGBTQ History month is Keith Haring (1958-1990) who valued “A more holistic & basic idea of wanting to incorporate [art] into every part of life, less as an egotistical exercise & more natural somehow.” Images & records –> https://t.co/rYm9GR9h0l 🏳️🌈@KeithHaringFdn pic.twitter.com/nUxFUK5Rjp
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 8, 2021
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Day 8 of #LGBTQ history month: Charity Bryant 1777-1851 & Sylvia Drake 1784-1868 who lived together as a "married" couple in Vermont. Listen here to podcast by @queerasfact https://t.co/JTGzvu8cty. Note below is from 1835. Read the book "Charity & Sylvia" @RachelCleves 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/7E1GUeIUmr
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 8, 2021
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈Day 9 of LGBTQ history month is gay historian @nicholas_syrett who does tons for queer history via @CLGBTH #QHC19 @JHistSex His newest book “an open secret” is about an unconventional couple from the 1920s @UChicagoPress #histsex read here ->https://t.co/S9GxgewX73 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/7YJKdlEgs2
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 10, 2021
🏳️🌈Day 10 of #LGBTQ History Month Chicana feminists Gloria Anzaldúa & @CherrieMoraga Interview w/ Moraga https://t.co/2kqDQGtZNS. "A borderland is a vague & undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary." – Anzaldua papers ->https://t.co/4lPq2Ya2Up🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/Ev3QL8c94h
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 11, 2021
Anzaldúa papers – https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00189/lac-00189.html
Moraga interview – https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/object/smith:1342644
🏳️🌈Day 11 of #LGBTQ History month celebrates the activists who fought to get "homosexuality" removed from the list of "psychiatric disorders" in 1973. Excited to watch @cureddoc tonight https://t.co/uHmq4bqvbX Link here to @nytimes coverage of the debate https://t.co/BwRIlHsW4o 🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/UeaHg3u8cD
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 11, 2021
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈#LGBTQ History Month Day 13 honors Leslie Feinberg whose writings & ideas have transformed my life. Their pathbreaking book "Stone Butch Blues" is available for free -> https://t.co/cPWGEny8V1 Their library is available for public use -> @SMA_Intl https://t.co/I2LACGXLLu🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/LWxIcZEddP
— Dr. Jen Manion, PhD ❤️ 🍕🌈🥨📚🏳️⚧️🏖 (@activisthistory) October 13, 2021
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