Grant Wood, Artist
John Schlesinger, Film Director
Sheila Kuehl, Lawyer and Politician
Members of Somos, one of Brazil’s earliest gay liberation groups, participate in a public debate about minorities and discrimination at the University of Sao Paolo. Over three hundred people attended the event, the first such large public discussion…
Two legislators from the Netherlands present Henry Waxman, a liberal Democratic member of the US Congress, a petition signed by an overwhelming majority of the members of the Netherlands Parliament. The petition calls on the United States to stop…
This feature explores the human production of the terms and concepts "heterosexual," "homosexual," and "bisexual," which are presented here as evidence of the construction of a historically specific social order or…
Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture (Columbia University Press 2001) By Laura Doan
Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality and Women's Experience of Modern War (University of Chicago Press 2013) By Laura Doan
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter
Barbara Jordan's autobiography
E. Lynn Harris
Beauford Delaney
Audre Lorde and Frances Clayton
James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
William Blackstone
Havelock Ellis, Sexologist
Langston Hughes, Writer
The Washington Post begins a 5-part series titled “Those Others: A Report on Homosexuality.” It was the most extensive journalistic discussion of gay life to appear in the U.S. press to that point, and included quotations from homophile movement…
A special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives issues a report recommending that military personnel who had served in World War II and who had been discharged dishonorably should have their discharges upgraded to honorable. The committee’s…