How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?
Tag: gay rights movement
History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey
George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.
More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality & Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality
Discussion of Obergefell compared activism for marriage equality with efforts to secure equal rights.
Lesbian Histories and Futures: A Dispatch From “Gay American History @ 40”
Rachel Hope Cleves The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History convened Wednesday evening, May 4, at John Jay College in New York City, with a panel on lesbian history. Cheryl Clarke presided over comments by Caroll Smith-Rosenberg and Claire Potter to an audience that […]
Gay Politics and Police Politics in the American City
Christopher Lowen Agee In 1960 Patrolman John Mindermann, a rookie officer in the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), was assigned to San Francisco’s Polk Gulch neighborhood. On his first night out, he stumbled upon the Cable Car Village, a gay bar. Speaking with me years later, he recounted this discovery […]
The Rejected: Homophile Activists in the Spotlight
The Rejected was a groundbreaking representation of gays in the American media.
Homophile Priests, LGBT Rights, and Scottish Churches, 1967-1986
Jeffrey Meek There’s a long history to the intersection of religious faith and sexuality in Scotland. The introduction of same-sex marriage, LGBT clergy, and the Church of Scotland’s liberalising attitude to LGBT+ rights and issues all attest to significant changes within the institution. While the Church of England played a crucial role in the […]