Terror and Vice: Los Angeles’ Painful Gay History

Описание: Today LA is viewed as a sort of progressive paradise (it isn't)... but what was history really like for the LGBTQ community, and why? Come learn with me!

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Sources:

Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth by Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage

Gay LA by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons

Gay New York by George Chauncey

Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman

The Lesbian Herstory Archives

“Character Assassins”: How the FBI Used the Issue of Homosexuality against the Black Freedom Struggle by Jared Leighton

Women-Identified Women: Trans Women in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Organizing by Emma Heaney

Unacceptable Mannerisms: Gender Anxieties, Homosexual Activism, and Swish in the United States, 1945-1965 by Craig M. Loftin

From Subversion to Obscenity: The FBI's Investigations of the Early Homophile Movement in the United States, 1953-1958 by DOUGLAS M. CHARLES

Containing "Perversion": African Americans and Same-Sex Desire in Cold War Los Angeles by KEVIN ALLEN LEONARD

When Hollywood Studios Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexuality a Secret, THAD MORGAN https://www.history.com/news/hollywoo...

Citizen Surveillance by SIMON J. JUDKINS

The Los Angeles Times Archive

'The Beginning of a Conversation': What It Was Like to Be an LGBTQ Activist Before Stonewall By Jess McHugh https://time.com/longform/mattachine-...

Images and Video:

Martin Turnbull

Los Angeles Public Library

PBS

KCET

Getty Images

The LA Times and The LA Herald

ONE Archives