Gay Icons and History: October 2008
Reg Riedel -- Pioneering Wildlife Worker
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 27, 2008 5:30 PM |Conservation work, especially with animals, may look glamorous in TV and movies, but it's hard on those who commit to it. There is the 24/7 grind of animal care, the struggle to find funding, and the terrible heartbreak when things...Read More
Alexander Hamilton -- "Little Lion" of the Revolution
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 25, 2008 10:30 AM |Conservative American historians reserve a closet that's deeper and darker than usual, for any "founding father" who wasn't a Bible-quoting Protestant heterosexual. And some odd boys can definitely be glimpsed through the cannon smoke of our Revolution. Among them was...Read More
Solving a Mystery: What Did Joan of Arc Look Like?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 18, 2008 4:30 PM |GLBT historians love to claim Joan as lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. I'm one of those who think she was a case of androgen insensitivity syndrome -- burned at the stake in 1431 for her "crime" of flouting Catholic rules on...Read More
Southwestern New Mexico - A Probable History Before Stonewall
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 17, 2008 11:00 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ronald L. Donaghe, winner of the Jim Duggins "Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist" Award for 2008, has been actively writing fiction since 1986. His first novel, Common Sons, was first published by a small, independent press out of...Read More
Remembering Philip Labhart, Pioneer Ad Producer
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 16, 2008 9:00 PM |Gay film history should have a category for ads and infomercials -- and Los Angeles producer Philip Labhart should be one of the first stars to be installed on that sidewalk of fame. Ads and infomercials may be despised by...Read More
Puerto Rican Sodomy Law - An Irony of Gay History
Filed by Guest Blogger | October 15, 2008 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Carlos Mock has published three books and is the Floricanto Press editor for its GLBT series. He was inducted in the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame in October of 2007. He grew up middle-class...Read More
Why I won't Come Out on National Coming Out Day
Filed by Yasmin Nair | October 11, 2008 10:30 AM |Public discussions around sexuality evoke simplistic narratives about gays versus conservatives. We automatically assume that anything gay is part of a leftist or progressive agenda. In this context, National Coming Out Day takes on the aura of a sacred rite...Read More
FEMME SHARKS, FEMME SHARKS!!!
Filed by Gina de Vries | October 11, 2008 8:00 AM |There is no bigger pleasure than hearing Leah, Zuleikha, and myself screaming chants on FemmeCast. Check out Episode 5 to hear some of my best & brilliant friends shark-sharking it up. (I also make a tiny little cameo as an...Read More
LGBT History Month: A Tale of Old-time Montana
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 09, 2008 7:00 PM |One coming-out in one small town can move the hearts of a lot of people for a long time after. Whenever I go home to Deer Lodge, Montana, and enjoy the acceptance -- or at least tolerance -- of a...Read More
Hello -- Liberty Is a Pagan Goddess
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 05, 2008 6:00 PM |To the creators of that Republican campaign commercial that appropriates the Statue of Liberty -- I've got news for you. You're hawking the wrong symbol. In fact, you're stealing a symbol that actually shoots a big hole in all the...Read More
How Real Is Our Commitment to "History"?
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | October 02, 2008 10:00 AM |For starters, the feminists got it wrong. In the word "history," "his-" does not refer to men. The American Heritage Dictionary index of root words shows us that "his-" probably comes from hyster, the Greek word for womb. Why womb?...Read More
