[NEWS] Twelve LGBTQ links (#lgbtq, #queer)
- Daily Xtra looks at 50 years of fighting for LGBTQ rights in Canada, here.
- Them links to a variety of classic documentaries about LGBTQ life before Stonewall, here.
- Atlas Obscura explains why lesbians and potluck dinners are so closely associated with each other, here.
- Them looks at the controversies surrounding the construction of monuments to LGBTQ heroes of the past, here.
- VICE explains how venerable magazine Out was nearly ended by poor management, here.
- Wired looks at queer history in TV movies, here.
- Connor Garel at NOW Toronto writes, inspired by Paris Is Burning and the drag scene, about the importance of maintaining queer spaces, here.
- Enzo DiMatteo writes at NOW Toronto about the long history of homophobia of Doug Ford, here.
- Claire Provost writes at Open Democracy about the frighteningly well-coordinated global campaign by groups on the right against LGBTQ superheroes, here.
- Michael Waters at Daily Xtra explains the key role of young users of social media in keeping even obscure corners of LGBTQ history alive, here.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 15, 2019 at 10:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
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