The Gift of Matthiessen and Cheney
By Scott Bane
My connection to Matthiessen and Cheney came through my sexuality, their relationship, Maine, and Matthiessen’s chosen field of study: history and literature.
Tagged: history
Blog Posts
Teaching History and Being Part of It
By Chay Lemoine
He asked, “what’s Stonewall?” and I realized that was a teaching moment.
No Way, They Were Gay?
By Lee Wind
If the people in power can prevent people from feeling empathy for each other, they can keep everyone divided and consolidate their hold on power. By making stories of Queer lives and loves illegal, unspeakable to children, they aim to push Queer people back into the closet.
Blue Ridge Lambda Press Newsletter
By Aila Boyd
The Blue Ridge Lambda Press was one of several LGBTQ+ newsletters produced in the area between the 1970s and early 2010s. The press grew out of the Blue Ridge Lambda Alliance, which formed around 1980 in Lynchburg—the home base of televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. Rosenthal.
A Conversion Therapist’s Epiphany
By Frank Perez
Today, despite a major paradigm shift in public attitudes toward homosexuality and the criminalization of Exodus-type ministries in many states, conversion therapy stubbornly persists.