“I think it’s important to learn about how queer students in the past navigated the very halls that we walked through today to understand how it is we are able to make up our lives that we live now.”
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“This generation has grown up with LGBT rights being affirmed. They need to know about the hard work and perseverance that LGBT pioneers exhibited when the political and social climate was more hostile,” said Horacio Sierra, a professor at Bowie State University.
All students do better when they receive a full picture of the past – and that includes LGBTQ history, says Eliza Byard, executive director of GLSEN. “There are periods of U.S. history that make a lot more sense when you include LGBT history,” she says.
There are lots of other historic sites throughout Philadelhia that played a part in the LGBTQ rights movement.
“When I was a teen, queer history helped me to get a sense of community and a sense of self, so I wanted this book to help make that more accessible to this generation of teens,” Prager said.
‘In the early 20th century, Arabs were ashamed of their ancient history,’ [Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, a gay imam] added. ‘They tried to purify it, censor it, to make it more masculine. There had to be nothing about femininity, homosexuality or anything. That’s how we got to how we are today.’
“He was an activist,” said Sara Burningham, producer of Making Gay History, a podcast about important figures in North American LGBTQ history.
“He was not a central activist but he was there at some really important moments in the civil rights struggle.
"But what’s become almost as important about him is that photograph.”
“We just wanted to honor these people,” said master’s of public history student GVGK Tang. “Those who passed away, and those who are still here…to honor their legacy and everything they’ve done for the community.”
Eric Marcus’s podcast, the third season of which premiered last week, uses each episode to dive deep into forgotten figures and events from the LGBTQ civil rights movement, as remembered by the people who lived it. It’s been downloaded in 206 countries and territories around the world, seen rave reviews, and made a number of best-of podcast lists.
Happy birthday to Frida Kahlo The legendary Mexican artist would have been 111 today. Her work has inspired generations of artists. Frida occasionally wore men’s clothing and was proudly bisexual — despite the world being hostile to LGBTQ people in the early 20th century. 📸: #NickolasMuray The first portrait was taken by Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1926.