To those wearing white one week longer, The great Brian Distelberg, a PhD candidate in history at Yale, returns today to these pages. In case you missed it, check out his musings on Connecticut. And check out his own website, where he writes about his research, contemporary politics and culture, and LGBT issues. The Boy [...]
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Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive
Posted in children, LGBT, military, periodicals, tagged boy scouts, boys life, camping, digital books, scouting on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An Archival Pride Parade
Posted in film, LGBT, periodicals, politics, video, tagged gay, gay history, LGBT pride, pride parade on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear air conditioner enthusiasts, You may have heard that June is LGBT Pride Month in these United States, marked by rainbow-banner parades in cities across the country. Boston’s passed a few Saturdays ago (favorite sign: “gender is a drag,” courtesy of a Traniwreck marcher), but I’ll confess, the parade that still means the most to [...]
Q & A: Margot Canaday, Historian of Sexuality and the State
Posted in government, Lazy Scholar Interview, LGBT, tagged margot canaday on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear hump day hurdlers, Welcome to the second Lazy Scholar interview, this time with Margot Canaday, Assistant Professor of history at Princeton University. Professor Canaday’s first book, the insightful and inspiring The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, came out from Princeton University Press last summer. Drawing on a wealth of diverse [...]
Lesbian Love Between the Covers
Posted in books, LGBT, pulp fiction, visual culture on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dear spring break scholars gone wild, I’ve just returned to Cambridge after a joyous ride through the Southwest, from Los Angeles to Santa Fe and back—so expect some Divided States posts in the coming weeks. For now though, I’m suffering from spring break hangover, making it somewhat hard to keep my eyes and mind focused. [...]
AIDS Artwork and Activism
Posted in advertising, illness, LGBT, photography, politics, visual culture, tagged ACT UP, AIDS, World AIDS day on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
To those of you blaming tryptophan for your Monday morning lag, Tomorrow, December 1, marks World AIDS Day, which seems like a good moment to point to some online resources about the history of the illness, its impact, and the art and activisim it inspired. The Carpenter Center here at Harvard has organized an extraordinary [...]
Queers On the March
Posted in LGBT, periodicals, photography, politics, visual culture, tagged activism, coming out, CUNY, gay, homosexuality, lesbians, NYPL, periodicals, photography, protest on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To my fellow followers of Rip Van Winkle, As some of you may know, Sunday, October 11 marks National Coming Out Day, a day for everyone to show their queer or queer-allied colors—and, in this year’s case, march on Washington for marriage equality. (You can read about the history of Coming Out Day—or COD, if [...]
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