When Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong met Magnus Hirschfeld in Shanghai during Hirschfeld’s 1931 world tour, their relationship — in which Li accompanied and cared for the famed sexologist across continents and the final years of his life — fell quickly into place.
“People think of big cities when they think about the LGBTQ community because it's just more visible there,” said Barry Loveland, co-founder of the LGBT Center of Central PA History Project, explaining that it’s often easier to find and document the stories of queer urban pasts. “The more rural areas, like Central PA — when I started this project 13 years ago, nobody was telling those stories.”
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Floridian Rob Sanders describes himself as a teacher who writes and a writer who teaches – and both he is.
Heroism can be a dangerous thing for those that don’t “fit the mold.”
Before he became one of San Francisco’s premier press agents, Lee Houskeeper was just another 20-something in New York City. It was there in the sweltering humidity of the Lower Manhattan summer, in 1969, that he witnessed the Stonewall riots.
There is perhaps no more critical election in U.S. history than the one in which Americans vote Nov. 5. Vice President Kamala Harris has said repeatedly as she campaigns that former president Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy as well as to a myriad of aspects of Americans’ daily lives.
“The evolution of a company's policies and branding and reputation is a lifelong work-in-progress,” said Bob Witek, a pioneering LGBTQ+ business leader and communications strategist.
It’s hard to believe now, but from the time South Florida began to grow in the 1890s through World War I in the 1910s, the land boom of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the 1930s, and World War II in the 1940s, the LGBTQ population lived in relative obscurity.
A national repository for historic medical information has added the website of a San Francisco health clinic focused on transgender patients to its collection. It is part of the newly created Sexual and Gender Minority Health web archive that is gathering LGBTQ health resources to preserve them in perpetuity.
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