I’m loving the fascinating interviews on Making Gay History podcast
The Making Gay History podcast mines Eric Marcus’s decades old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
I meant to post this a while ago but got distracted by, well, a pandemic. My friend Norena (author of the groundbreaking Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories from Wales) wrote a great roundup of all the events that happened here for LGBT History Month 2020: Wales + LGBT History Month round up.
It’s heartening and moving to see so many activities happening across the country. We have come such a long way, even if as Norena says, we now need to move beyond events being restricted to celbratory days and months.
Llongyfarchiadau LGBTQ+ Wales!
The shops, who supported each other by sharing news and ideas, became cornerstones of the communities they served, hosting political organizations and providing safe spaces for people to explore and embrace their sexuality. Such inclusiveness — along with the spirit of the anti-war, anti-establishment revolution that fanned out before and after Stonewall — encouraged others to build upon the idea started by Rodwell and the Oscar Wilde. By the mid-1980s, queer bookstores were in more than 20 cities across North America as well as venues in Germany, France, Australia, the Netherlands and the U.K.
Jason Villemez
Good article about the history of LGBT bookstores
Interesting read, Voices: Lessons from LGBTQI History
Queer Bible, U.A. Fanthorpe
LGBTQ Nation, Meet the Harlem Renaissance dancer who made sure lesbian history wasn’t forgotten
Queer Bible, Natalie Barney
Autostraddle, All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer
Quill and Quire, The 88-year-old creator of mystery’s first lesbian detective reflects on the character’s return
Lambda Literary, review of My Butch Career by Esther Newton
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton
Well, this is fabulous – The Queer Bible
Some things I’ve found interesting recently
