History is Gay

New Bonus Ep! Leigh sits down with scholar and creator of the Q***r Digital History Project Avery Dame-Griff to discuss his book The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet and all it contains about the magic of the evolution of trans folks on the internet. From BBSes (bulletin board system) to Twitter, we discuss how trans people have always existed on and created their own unique spaces on the World Wide Web, tapping into Avery’s extensive research, interviews, and media archaeology.

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We choose to remember. We refuse to forget.

In the US we have lost at least 33 of our trans siblings to violence since last November.

Globally, we have lost at least 320 trans lives.

Today, on trans day of remembrance, we honor their lives and the grief of their loved ones and communities.

Sources for information on who we've lost:

Trivia Night Tonight! Top hat and tuxedo not required

Trivia night is in one week! See you there!

We're still only at 5 tickets sold for our first-ever Q***r History trivia night! If you've been waiting for your chance, this is it!

Hesitating because you don't have a team? Don't fret! We'll be putting teams together for folks and making new friends!

History is Gay Presents: Virtual LGBTQ+ Trivia Night! Think you know q***r history? Join us for the first-ever LGBTQ History Trivia Night hosted by History is Gay Podcast!

Our first ever trivia night is coming up! We hope to see you there!

Find all the details at: www.historyisgaypodcast.com/trivia

History is Gay has reached a podcast milestone! Thank you to all our listeners for helping us get to one million downloads!
💜Help us celebrate in the comments by sharing how you first found the pod or what your favorite episode has been so far💜

Join us on Sunday, October 1 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time / 8:00 pm Eastern for our first-ever virtual LGBTQ+ History Trivia Night, presented by History is Gay! All listeners and friends are invited to come join the fun, make a team (or get to know new friends), and flex your q***r history and trivia knowledge, with a mix of questions about general q***r history and some memories from History is Gay episodes past!

Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for History is Gay Patrons at any level, and FREE for patrons at the Lavender Menace tier and above. Check out our Patreon for promo codes that were sent out to patrons.

Go to link in stories or www.historyisgaypodcast.com/trivia to see details and get your tickets! We can't wait to see you there!

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day! 💛🤍💜🖤

Whether you were parading, protesting, staying home and studying q***r history, or just going about your gay day-to-day, we hope you've had a safe and supported pride month ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Visibility is a double-edged sword.

Today is , and this year especially, it’s a hard one. Trans people are facing an extreme level of attack from all sides. It seems like every day I wake up and there’s some new horror of legislation that’s dropped.

Visibility provides for normalization, access, services, & representation. These are literally lifesavers.

Visibility is also what the transphobes are trying to erase. Almost 400 BILLS worth. They are trying to erase all facets of transness from public life. They are trying to eradicate us from spaces, from our own bodily autonomy, from our own identities and selves. This is backlash from trans people becoming more visible in everyday life, and that terrifies them.

Visibility also adds a target to our back in this time. I’m “lucky”— I’m white, non-binary and cis-passing. I haven’t undergone any physical transitioning. This protects me largely from the kind of street violence my other trans siblings are facing.

But that invisibility is isolating, too. I want desperately when I see other trans people to have them see me, to let them know “hey, I see you, I’m right there with you. This fu***ng sucks.”

To the cis people in my life:

What are you doing today, right now, to make life better for trans people at a time where we’re literally at step 8 on the genocide scale?

What are you committing to *actively* doing today and taking up time today to do to fight the fact that the trans people in your lives are literally being legislated out of existence?

Trans folks, please take care of ourselves and do a little resting today because the world is fu**ed.

Started by of , today is also Trans Day of Staying In and Having a Nice Snack, because damnit we deserve snacks and s**t is the hardest it’s been in a damn while right now!!

Trans folks, drop your venmo or cash app below to receive snack $$ and other forms of mutual aid.

Cis folks, send $$ for snacks to folks who drop their handles. Donate to trans orgs fighting this fight. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. SHOW UP AT POLITICIANS HOUSES.

DO NOT. LEAVE IT. TO TRANS PEOPLE. TO DO THIS ALONE.

Venmo: -pfeffer

We lost an absolute legend today. Judy Heumann was an international recognized disability rights activist who was instrumental as one of the original activists who drafted the Americans with Disabilities Act.

She was a major player in the 504 Sit-In demonstrations in 1977, after the secretary of health refused to sign regulations for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first set of civil rights disability protections in the U.S. The sit-in is the longest occupation of a federal building in U.S. history and changed the game for non-violent protest and disability rights in America. Q***r disabled people were heavily involved and the fights for q***r and disabled civil rights have long been intertwined and stood together in solidarity.

May her memory be a blessing.

Hey folks, check this out! A new documentary from Independent Lens that tracks the history of q***r comics! No Straight Lines is now streaming for free on PBS.

https://bit.ly/NSLPBS

Meet five q***r comic book artists whose uncensored commentary left no topic untouched, explored art as a tool for social change, and brought DIY underground comics to the mainstream.

First observed in 1986, Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors the life and work of the civil rights activist. It is celebrated this month to honor his birthday, January 15th 1929. He would have been 93 years old.

Slides:
1. Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King. Active alongside her husband in his work, Coretta Scott King took a leading role in the movement after his death. She established the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and led the campaign for a national holiday to be established in his honor. Later, in the 80s and 90s, she would advocate for LGBT equality alongside the ongoing fight for racial justice.

2. Memorial march in Memphis, April 8 1968. The King family had traveled to Memphis to lead a nonviolent march in support of striking sanitation workers. It was there in Memphis where he was assassinated. Just days later, Coretta Scott King and her children led the march, now a silent walk through the city in honor of her husband and still in solidarity with the workers.

3. Martin Luther King Jr. with two of his closest advisors, Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Bayard Rustin. Bayard Rustin worked closely with King during the Montgomery Bus boycott in 1956 and went to coordinate the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin was an out gay man and we explored his life and legacy in episode 22!

Starting off 2023 with a bang! Writer, curator, & historian
talks about his book "The Women's House of Detention". We had such a good conversation on abolition, systems of care vs harm, finding q***rness in unexpected places, and more.

https://link.chtbl.com/womenshouseofd

Today in (podcast) history: we published our very first episode on January 1st 2018! Thank you to all our listeners for your continued support and enthusiasm, we love exploring the often ignored corners of history with you. Happy New Year to you all, stay q***r and stay curious 💜

Chag Sameach to all of our listeners celebrating Chanukah! May your holiday be filled with light and warmth, and eat lots of latkes :D

The scariest thing of all….heteronormative scholarship!!

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Non-Binary Awareness Week!

Reminder that myself, Aubree Calvin from Southern Q***ries Podcast, and Sadina Shawver from the Using Our Library Voices podcast are doing this talk at Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality tomorrow evening sponsored by Harris County Public Library!

Come join us for a convo on Texas LGBTQ history & banned books! And if you can't make it in person, it'll be streamed live!

Library for All: Free to be You and Read Three podcasts, one stage! Join History is Gay, Southern Q***ries and Using Your Library Voices for a discussion on censorship and book bans

So FRICKIN DICKIN EXCITED BY THIS

Janelle Monáe Will Star as Bi-con Josephine Baker in New TV Series One q***r cultural icon is set to play another, and we cannot wait.

Exciting stuff! We relaunched Patreon w/ new tiers and perks on Sat, and with cute doodles by camilasc (https://camilasc.com/).

Livewatches, exclusive merch, and a brand new Discord server for everyone to hang out in and gets sneak peeks are just some of the new perks! I'm so excited for this new phase and hope y'all will support if you aren't already :D

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We are celebrating having raised over $168,000 for our beneficiaries GLAAD and CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers so far at .gay, and are so grateful for every domain registered making that donation amount continue to grow!

Many people helped make that happen in 2021, including NameSilo, the History is Gay Podcast, Foxx Bodies, and Gabe Gonzalez.

Check out the full (Dot)Gayest moments list at www.TheYearIn.gay

A new episode for you, with Hannah van Rhee of Q***rSounds Podcast as guest host! This episode we learn about Wendy Carlos, a synthesizer pioneer and electronic music icon, who happens to be a trans woman!

History is Gay: Episode 38: Trans-sister Radio: Synth Icon Wendy Carlos If you’ve ever enjoyed disco, EDM, changed your voice with auto-tune, or danced along to Daft Punk, you’ve got the subject of today’s episode to thank! In this episode of History is Gay, Leigh is joined by guest host Hannah van Rhee (they/them) of the Q***rSounds Podcast to talk about Wendy Ca...

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Listen to Loki Is GenderQ***r From the ever-informative and entertaining podcast "History Is Gay", Leigh and Gretchen have proven once again to have done their research. Q***rness is entangled all throughout mythology, Norse mythology and the MCU included. Turns out, Loki is genderq***r! And absolutely loves having babies.