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Healthcare Barriers for the LGBTQ Community

WEBThe National LGBT Health Education Center’s 2016 report, “Understanding the Health Needs of LGBT People,” noted that LGBTQ individuals experience higher rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, lower rates of women’s health screenings such as mammograms and Pap smears, and higher rates of problems like smoking.A …

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Drs. Eliot and Dunham to the Rescue

WEBEliot was expressing her delight that she and Ethel Collins Dunham had finally found a house to share, and she made no effort to hide the fact that they would be sleeping in the same bed. These two remarkable women, everyone knew, were more than just “friends.”. The prevailing scientific view at the time was that lesbianism, “sexual

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Martin Duberman: Life of an Activist Historian

WEBMartin Duberman: Life of an Activist Historian. Published in: January-February 2010 issue. BORN on August 6, 1930, in New York City, Martin Duberman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1952, and earned a masters and a doctorate in history from Harvard in 1953 and 1957. His first book, a biography of Charles Francis …

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Daughters of Bilitis

WEBEditor’s Note: A women’s counterpart to Harry Hay’s article in the Winter 1995 issue was provided by longtime partners Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, who deny having founded the Daughters of Bilitis at the top of this article, but who were surely responsible for its early survival.It is worth remembering that 1994 was the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall …

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Gender Fluidity in Hawaiian Culture

WEBTHE 2014 DOCUMENTARY film Kumu Hina follows the life of Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu—called simply “Hina”—a modern Hawaiian Māhū and a proud transgender woman. Through the lens of Hina’s life we catch a glimpse of the revered and sacred role of Māhūs in Hawaiian culture. The film encourages us to question the way in which gender …

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Behind the Closet Door of 1920’s Harlem

WEB509 pages, $30 (paper) THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE began in the early 1920’s and ended some ten or fifteen years later, depending on whom you ask. That short time span saw the emergence of writers, artists, art collectors, and bon vivants of all colors, genders, and sexual orientations. There’s still a lot that we don’t know about the era’s

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Remembering Edwin

WEBIn truth, a decade’s worth of reaction to the epidemic was behind my writing The Brothers Antonelli. It began with the illness and death of my brother’s partner Tommy, the loss of our dear college friend (the character Lenny in the novel), and my brother Edwin’s HIV diagnosis. Like so many gay men, I felt compelled to take action.

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Leslie Feinberg Beheld a World without Gender

WEBIN Transliberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (1998), the late writer-activist Leslie Feinberg, who preferred the gender-neutral pronouns hir and ze, described hirself as “a masculine feminine”: “I do not identify as a male, so I don’t believe that I should have to change my body to ‘match’ my gender expression so that authorities can feel …

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