Historian of 1970s/1980s African American+LGBT culture. PhD candidate @GeorgeMasonU. Probably listening to Motown or disco right now. He / him @WearingGayHist
Aug 17, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
As a gay nightlife historian, let me just say that the government using liquor licenses to wage culture war is nothing new
It’s helpful to remember that serving homosexuals alcohol was illegal in many parts of the USA for much of the 20th century. The owner of the LA’s Red Raven, a popular gay hangout, got super lucky in 1958 that a judge found no evidence that he knowlingly served “sexual perverts.”
Jan 15, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Idea: Instead of trying to add LGBT content to your courses, consider queering up your entire syllabus. What do the people on the margins in your lectures tell us about your field? The so called "abnormal"? The ones that didn't belong? #twitterstorians
Queer history isn't just looking for non-heterosexual histories. It means looking at how normality produced both oppression and resistance among those who were different. As Professor Lee Edelman suggested, "Queerness can never define an identity; it can only ever disturb one.”
