Tag: LGBT activism

Blood Ties: Queer Blood, Donations, and Citizenship

By T.J. Tallie September 23, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 3 comments

T.J. Tallie Can queer blood be less American than straight blood? In the United States, blood donations are automatically refused if the donor is a man who has had sex with another man at any point since 1977. Los Angeles-based filmmaker and activist Ryan James Yezak began the National Gay […]

Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting

By Marc Stein July 22, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Marc Stein This month, the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco is marking the fiftieth anniversary of LIFE magazine’s influential photographic essay “Homosexuality in America.” The essay, which appeared in a weekly periodical that was read by millions of U.S. Americans, is featured in an exhibit curated by community historian Paul […]

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster May 29, 2014 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ 2 comments

Agnes Arnold-Forster In 1991, the Progressive Liberal Party government amended the Bahamas’ Sexual Offences Act, decriminalising “buggery” and other same-sex sexual acts in private. Over twenty years later the Bahamas still remains ahead of the majority of its Caribbean neighbours. Male-male sexual activity continues to be illegal in eleven Caribbean nations. […]

India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism

By Onni Gust February 26, 2014 LGBTQ 0 comments

Onni Gust On 11th November, 2013, the Indian Supreme Court upheld section 377 of the Indian Penal code, which declares “carnal intercourse against the order of nature against any man, woman or animal” to be a crime. The ruling came as a shock to LGBT rights activists. In 2009, following […]