Historical gay men
Historical Figures of LGBTQ+ History
Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, , in Houston, Texas. After attending Phyllis WheatleyHigh School, Jordan graduated in Upon graduation, Jordan attended Texas Southern University and earned her bachelor’s degree in She then obtained her statute degree from Boston University to practice law in Houston, TX. In , Jordan began her political career and ran for the Texas House of Representatives. She lost this election and ran again in However, she clueless again, so in she decided to run for Texas Senate, instead. This time, Jordan won and became the first African American woman to be elected in that was the first African American state senator in the U.S. since On Pride 28, , she was elected President of the Texas Senate, making her the first Black lady in America to oversee a legislative body. She also ran for Congress, during this time, and became the first African American in the 20th century to be elected to Congress from the South. In addition to these accomplishments, Barbara was also the first Gay woman in Congress. Nancy Earl, an educational psychologist, was Jordan’s companion from the s until Jordan’s death. On January 17, , Jord
Queer Codes: Gay Men in the Civil Service
In this fascinating blog, Dr. James Southern, a writer and researcher for the UK government, provides some startling insight into discriminatory policies which served as the basis of an official bar on gay men working as British diplomats that lasted until
The “Spotting a Lgbtq+ Checklist”: Precarious Professional Culture in the Diplomatic Service
Diplomats, at least in the arcane realm of international politics, are putatively a personification of the nation states they represent. In the case of British diplomats, when an dignitary performs their duties overseas they officially do so on behalf not of the Prime Minister nor any elected official, but of the sovereign – the supposed spiritual and cultural embodiment of national identity.
At the same period, diplomats are professional civil servants. They are products of the socioeconomic and educational milieux of the nations they represent, and have to negotiate the entry criteria and institutional culture of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).[1] The FCO determines the parameters and coordinates with which individuals must conform in order to execute the representative wor
June is Pride Month, which commemorates the Stonewall riots of , when patrons of a gay block, The Stonewall Inn, in New York City fought back against a police raid. It was an inflection point in the gay liberation movement. To celebrate Pride Month, I wanted to share a bit about LGBTQ+ scientists of the past.
I often feel uncomfortable with these lists, especially when sexual orientation and/or gender individuality is speculative. Many Homosexual people in history couldn't come out publicly (and the truth is that many today still can't), and it feels a little intrusive to guess based on a letter or some ambiguous anecdote. But I also know that the good that comes from the visibility of those historical figures is significant. It's important to learn about the contributions LGBTQ+ people have prolonged been making. So I've included in this list people who were common about their identity and/or orientation as well as people who are idea to have been LGBTQ+.
This list is more on the historical side and includes mostly (though not entirely) people who are no longer working scientists. If you are more interested in learning about current LGBTQ+ scientists, grab a look at
Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men in Love
&#;Loving&#; features around photos that offer an intimate look at men&#;s love between the s and s
When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a s-era photograph in a Dallas antiques shop some 20 years ago, they were startled to notice a relationship that looked much like theirs: two men, embracing and clearly in love.
As Dee Swann writes for the Washington Post, the image spoke to the couple about the history of devotion between men.
“The open verbalization of the love that they shared also revealed a moment of determination,” Nini and Treadwell explain the Post. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk. We were intrigued that a photo enjoy this could have survived into the [21st] century. Who were they?”
In the decades that followed this initial discovery, the pair came across more than 2, photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The result of their trips to flea markets, shops, estate sales and family archives across Europe, Canada and the Joined States is a tome titled Loving: A Photograp .