As part of my research on spots in the United States that deserve designations under the National Park Service, I read up on Jewel's Catch One disco club and gay bar. While not as wellknown in the American conscious as Stonewall in New York City, I believe it's important that the lesser known examples of LGBTQ history (1/2).
#lgbtq #blackhistory #lgbtqhistory #losangeles #california #socal #googleearth #gis #history #unitedstatesofamerica #queerhistory #nationalparkservice

📖 No âmbito da sua investigação de doutoramento, Raquel Afonso publicou um artigo onde propôs um novo conceito: a "monetização da repressão da homossexualidade, como forma de dar visibilidade à perseguição, chantagem ou extorsão de homossexuais por parte de outras pessoas que não eram polícias, com o objectivo de obter dinheiro para seu próprio benefício."

🔓 O artigo pode ser lido em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.25.2025.90.51-65

#Histodons #OpenAccess #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Espanha #Portugal

That night at the Rainbow Room, I left a flowing, ankle-length white cashmere coat in the cloakroom. My fingers sparkled with jeweled rings. The young man who handed me my check ticket gave me the look, that too-lingering eyelock that said he was family, a Friend of Dorothy. Then he looked Lenny up and down and breathed, Qué rico, just loud enough for me to hear.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-queer-phantasm-danced-to-life-e0e735169bc2?sk=27d152f5a1f8256e3eaa88d71d1537df

#LGBTQ #Gay #Queer #QueerHistory

A Queer Phantasm Danced to Life

Waltzing in the Rainbow Room with my rings

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To quote the same article from a different section:
»The carabiner is linked to lesbian identity for its ties to masculine, utilitarian workwear. Some lesbians, like butch lesbians, often want to move away from typically feminine accessories and lean towards masculine aesthetics«

Making this pretty clear to me the expression of the carabiner to be of explicitly mascline aesthetics and expression of empowerment.

#queer #queerhistory #sapphic #lesbian #wlw #ww2
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The humble carabiner, a little forgotten queer history:

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As WWII broke out, many women found themselves in the workplace and taking over jobs as the men were rounded up to fight on the frontline. Butches, masc women and gender non-conforming lesbians were pushed into blue-collar jobs (like janitors and delivery workers), taking over from men

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Source https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/12/why-do-lesbians-wear-carabiners/
#queer #queerhistory #sapphic #lesbian #wlw #ww2

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After Dark Treasures

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤  🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

Conversion therapy is literal nazi science, and we should also be calling it that. Lovaas' ABA framework was the framework Rekers built on, with Lovaas' help, applying the ableist torture schema to a presumed-queer toddler. LGBT and autistic conversion therapy come from the same nazi source. Lovaas was LITERALLY a card-carrying Nazi, arrested for it. He was in Quisling's political party.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09526951251324102

#QueerHistory #DisabilityHistory #history #ABA #ConversionTherapy #ActuallyAutistic @autistics

#BookLaunch for @cjdebarra's new book, a second volume exploring Nottingham's #QueerHistory. Central Library, 22 May at 7pm. Get tickets from @fiveleavesbookshop

#QueerNottingham #NottinghamHistory #LGBTHistory #LGBTQHistory