Author Don Romesburg’s Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School traces the fight to have LGBT materials taught in history and social science classes across several decades. Romesburg was a major actor in this effort in California, where significant inclusion first occurred.
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LET ME BEGIN this informal survey of reactions in Scandinavia to the Trump presidency with salient developments relevant to this region’s LGBT people. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been accompanied by a litany of executive actions that have changed the course of world politics.
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Vaid writes incisively and critically about identity-based movements and the need to form coalitions and find common purpose with other minorities that society has left and continues to leave behind. Without such coalition-building, she argues, identity-based politics “does not lead to liberatory outcomes.”
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THE GLOBAL FIGHT Against LGBTI Rights is based on ten years of intensive research, including firsthand contacts with groups working both for and against strengthening LGBT rights.
MoreThe Lavender Scare is an example of what sociologists refer to as a “moral panic,” which happens when a perceived social threat is singled out and exaggerated until the public comes to regard it as a serious danger to physical safety and to society’s core values. The response to a moral panic typically involves the enactment of laws and policies designed to “root out” the source of the perceived threat. Recent anti-LGBT legislation and policy directives coming from U.S. federal and state governments provide a more recent example of a moral panic, only this time the threat is gender—specifically transgender—identity.
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Shilts became the first openly gay reporter for a mainstream newspaper, San Francisco Chronicle, and the first to cover the queer community full time, writing three seminal books on the subject.
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