11th Lesson Links

LGBT History Timeline

Website Resources- 8th Grade 

 

Website Resources - 11th Grade

These web links are organized by the themes included in the California History/Social Science Framework (2016) and by the themes used in the 11th grade curriculum guide.

 

General Links:

• Quick History of LGBT History from Wikipedia.
• National Park Service - LGBTQ Theme Study 
• University of California, Santa Cruz. Oakes Queer History Project (Archives, Timeline and Vocabulary). http://queerhistory.sites.ucsc.edu/ 
• Rainbow History Project. http://rainbowhistory.org/ 
• Out History. http://outhistory.org/  
• World Gender Map (Clickable Google Map)  

 

NPR Podcast about Storme DeLarverie (1920-2014) — a Black butch woman who didn't pull any punches when it came to protecting her community from violence and was present at the Stonewall Uprising.

 

Was Pres. James Buchanan Gay? https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/753439.html 

Was Walt Whitman gay? https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/was-walt-whitman-gay-new-textbook-rules-spark-lgbtq-history-n821636

Was Langston Hughes gay? https://www.kappanonline.org/moorhead-lgbtq-visibility-k-12-curriculum/ 

1951 California Supreme Court case - First LGBTQ judicial court victory, Stoumen v Reilly - https://sunnysidehistory.org/2018/10/18/george-r-reilly-and-first-lgbt-legal-victory/ 

Also see:  https://daily.jstor.org/gay-bars-and-gay-rights/ 

 

 

 

Romantic Friendships Increase Women’s Rights (1890-1930)

• Declaration of Sentiments (1848). Women’s Rights National Historical Park, New York.  https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/declaration-of-sentiments.htm  
• Gritz, Jennie Rothenberg. “But Were they Gay? The Mystery of Same Sex Love in the 19^th Century.” The Atlantic. September 7, 2012. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/but-were-they-gay-the-mystery-of-same-sex-love-in-the-19th-century/262117/  
• Norton, Rictor. My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries.  1998. http://rictornorton.co.uk/dearboy.htm  
• Reforming Their World: Women in the Progressive Era. National Women’s History Museum Exhibit. https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/introprogressive.html  
• Schoenberg, Nara. “Outing Jane Addams.”  Chicago Tribune. February 6, 2007. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-02-06/features/0702060273_1_hull-house-mary-rozet-smith-lesbian  
• Weeks, Linton. “Female Husbands of the 19th Century.” National Public Radio. January 29, 2015. http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/01/29/382230187/-female-husbands-in-the-19th-century  
• Faderman, Lillian - Lillian Faderman's To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America- A History 

 

Gays in the Military from the Civil War to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (1860-2010)

• Articles of War. June 4, 1920.http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/AW/index.html
• Articles of War 1912-1920. Primary Source Documents. Library of Congress.https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/AW-1912-1920.html
• Brotherhood of Warriors (Ancient Greek Warriors). Homosexuality. http://www.soldiers-of-misfortune.com/history/gay-warriors.htm
• Burroway, Jim. “This Day in History: APA Removes Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder.” Box Turtle Newsletter. December 15, 2008.http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/12/15/7128
• Coming Out Under Fire. Documentary and excerpts based on the book by David Johnson. http://www.deepfocusproductions.com/films/coming-out-under-fire/ 
• Crouthamel, Jason. “Sexuality, Sex Relations, Homosexuality [during World War 1].” International Encyclopedia of World War I. Accessed July 1, 2016.http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/sexuality_sexual_relations_homosexuality
• Darby, James C and Bova, Patrick. “The Gay Veterans Movement To Achieve Equality In America's Armed Forces.” Gay Veteran’s Movement.http://www.gaymilitarysignal.com/0905HistoryII.html
• Don't Ask Don't Tell from the Inside Out. Huffington Post. 2007. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-alva/dont-ask-dont-tell-from-t_b_42310.html 
• Eisenhower, Dwight. Executive Order 10450, “Security Requirements for Government Employment.” April 27, 1953.http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html
• Experiencing War: Serving in Silence. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Service People share their stories. Library of Congress.https://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-lgbt.html
• Hatred and Homosexuality: Gay Men in World War I. Vada Magazine. February 22, 2014.http://vadamagazine.com/features/opinions/homosexuality-first-world-war
• Homosexuals: Victims of the Nazi Era. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibit. https://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/learning-materials-and-resources/homosexuals-victims-of-the-nazi-era
• OutRanks Exhibit / Website. GLBT Museum, San Francisco, CA. http://glbthistory.org/OutranksWeb/Index2.htm
• Parker, Sydney. “This Veteran’s Job was Discharging Gay Sailors in the Navy – But he had a Secret.”  LGBT Veterans Talk About their Service. BuzzFeed. May 24, 2015.https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydneyparker/this-veterans-job-was-discharging-gay-sailors-in-the-navy-bu
• Pink Triangle Website.http://www.pink-triangle.org/
• Remembering LGBT History: How World War II Changed Gay and Lesbian Life in America. Daily Kos. May 25, 2012.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/5/25/1094817/-Remembering-LGBT-History-How-World-War-II-Changed-Gay-and-Lesbian-Life-in-America
• Ring, Trudy. “Photos: Civil War LGBT and Feminist Heroes.”  The Advocate. 26 Nov 2014. http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/11/26/photos-civil-war-lgbt-and-feminist-heroes
• Sexuality, Sexual Relations, Homosexuality in World War I.  International Encyclopedia of the first World War. http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/sexuality_sexual_relations_homosexuality
• U.S. Congress (81^st Congress). Employment of Homosexuals and other Sex Perverts in Government. December 15, 1950. https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/evidence/PX2337.pdf
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Harlem Renaissance: As Gay as it was Black (1917-1935)

• The Closet Professor Blog. A blog about GLBT History, Art, Literature, Politics, and Culture. “Homosexuality and the Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.” August 31, 2010.  http://closetprofessor.blogspot.com/2010/08/homosexuality-and-writers-of-harlem.html
• Gays, Lesbians and Transgenders in Harlem. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/blues/homo.html#More
• Gay Harlem Renaissance. http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2011/07/harlem_renaissance_gay_authors/
• Hamilton Lodge Ball (aka the Faggots Ball). http://queermusicheritage.com/nov2014hamilton.html
•  In the Early 20th Century, America Was Awash in Incredible Queer Nightlife  (April 2016)
• The History Channel. The Harlem Renaissance. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harlem-renaissance
• Public Broadcasting System. The Rise of Jim Crow. “The Harlem Renaissance.” http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.html
• LGBT African Americans of the Harlem Renaissance. National Museum of African American History and Culture. June 20, 2014. http://nmaahc.tumblr.com/post/89382360830/lgbt-african-americans-of-the-harlem-renaissance
• McGasko, Joe. The Mother and The Empress: Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Biography.com. May 14, 2015.http://www.biography.com/news/bessie-smith-ma-rainey-biography
• Museum Kurá Hulanda (Curaçao, Dutch Antilles). Harlem Renaissance Exhibit. http://www.kurahulanda.com/temporary-harlem-renaissance
• Oakes Queer History Project. Harlem Renaissance.http://oakesqueerhistoryarchive.tumblr.com/search/harlemrenaissance
• Queer Music History – The 1920s and 1930s. http://queermusicheritage.com/nov2014.html
• Villarosa, Linda. The Gay Harlem Renaissance.  The Root Newsletter. July 23, 2011. http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2011/07/harlem_renaissance_gay_authors/
• Wintz, Carl D. The Harlem Renaissance: What Was It and Why Does it Matter? http://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/harlem-renaissance-what-was-it-and-why-does-it-matter

  

People of the Harlem Renaissance:

 

Bentley, Gladys. (Pianist, Singer and Performer).

• Gender NonConfirming Lesbian Superstar. http://bust.com/feminism/18503-gladys-bentley-clam-jam.html 
• Queer Cultural Center.http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Bentley/BentleyBio.html
• Interview with Groucho Marx.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-LTJNasTMc&list=PLnWWca3fzM7wy3DZ1efx_aG_xJ5ZOq3sJ
• Recordings:
• “Worried Blues (1928).”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA_CziLYjEg
• “How Much Can I Stand (1928).”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiJYbeTeKM

 

Cullen, Countee. (Poet Laureate of the Harlem Renaissance)

• Poetry Foundation.https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/countee-cullen
• Norton, Rictor. Gay Love Letters of Countee Cullen. 1998.http://rictornorton.co.uk/cullen.htm

 

Hughes, Langston. (Writer and Poet. “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.”)

• Poets.org.https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/langston-hughes 
• Als, Hilton. “The Elusive Langston Hughes.” The New Yorker. March 2, 2015.http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/sojourner 
• Rampersad, Arnold. Hughes’s Life and Career.http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/life.htm

 

Hurston, Zora Neal. (Queen of the Niggerati)

• Zora Neale Hurston Archives. University of San Francisco. http://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/hurstonarchive/ 
• Website of Zora Neale Hurston.http://www.zoranealehurston.com/

 

Locke, Alain. (Philosophical Architect and Herald of the Harlem Renaissance)

• Black Past.http://www.blackpast.org/aah/locke-alain-1886-1954 
• Howard University.http://www.founders.howard.edu/Locke.htm 
• The Making of African American Identity (1917-1968). W.E.B. DuBois and Alain Locke.http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/protest/text10/text10read.htm

 

Rainey, Ma. (Mother of the Blues)

• Biography.com.http://www.biography.com/people/ma-rainey-9542413
• Recordings:
• “Prove it On Me Blues (1928).”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLEDSZqDjk
• “Deep Moaning Blues (1928).”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mRHNAeJXE
• https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/singing-the-lesbian-blues-in-1920s-harlem/  

 

Smith, Bessie. (Empress of the Blues)

• The Bessie Smith Story. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/blues/bsa.html
•  Biography.com.http://www.biography.com/people/bessie-smith-9486520#synopsis
• Recordings:
• “Nobody Knows When You’re Down and Out (1929).”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzU8xM99Uo
• “Taint Nobody’s Business (1923).”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cngx_KKiWE

 

Waters, Ethel. (Blues Singer).

• Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Penn State.http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Waters__Ethel.html 
• Yale Library Exhibit. Ethel Waters.http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/cvvpw/gallery/waters1.html 
• “The Two Ethels.” Queer Music Heritage.http://www.queermusicheritage.com/nov2014s.html

 

Van Vechten, Carl. (Theater Critic and Photographer)

• White Passion, the Passions of Carl Van Vechten. The New Yorker. February 24, 2014.
• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/17/white-mischief-2 
• Carl Van Vechten:http://gayinfluence.blogspot.com/2012/02/carl-van-vechten.html 
• Harrity, Christopher. #TBT: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance. The Advocate. February 12, 2015.  http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/photography/2015/02/12/tbt-carl-van-vechten-and-harlem-renaissance
• Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten’s Portraits of Women. Yale University Collection of American Literature. October 2003.http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/cvvpw/exhibit.html

 

Lesson Plan: Lesbian Blues Singers in the Harlem Renaissance

 

The Lavender Scare and the 1950s (1918-2011)

• Association for Diplomatic Training and Studies. “The Lavender Scare: Homosexuals in the State Department.” 2015. http://adst.org/2015/09/the-lavender-scare-homosexuals-at-the-state-department/
• Huffington Post. “The Lavender Scare: Homosexuals in the State Department.”  February 2, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adst/the-lavender-scare-homose_b_8179498.html
• Lavender Scare Movie:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/april-27-1953-lavender-scare_b_1459335
• Lavender Scare Book and movie: http://www.thelavenderscare.com/video-gallery
• National Archives. Executive Order 10450–Security requirements for Government employment. April 27, 1953. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10450.html
• U.S. Congress (81^st). “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government.” December 15, 1950. https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv229
• Wooledge, Scott. “Today in History: State Department Reveals Purge of 91 Homosexuals.” The Daily Kos. February 28, 2012. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/2/28/1069129/-Today-in-history-State-Department-reveals-purge-of-91-homosexuals
• Simon, Scott. "Kicked Out of Air Force for Being Gay, Helen Grace James Wins Honorable Discharge."  January 20, 2018.  https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=579205780 

 

Videos/Movies/Podcasts:

• U.S. Congressional Hearing. McCarthy-Army Hearings. June 9, 1954. https://youtu.be/oc6Yo3A7CC8  
• Sedition Act, Red Scare and Palmer Raids.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3QrfEdEWMo
• The Lavender Scare Movie (2014).  
• List of Lavender Scare Videos on YouTube.  
• Mattachine Society Serial Podcasts (2019). Episode 4 - Lavender Scare 

 

Books:

• Johnson, David K. (2006). The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. 

 

Amendments, Laws and Court Decisions Expand Equality (1868-2015)

 

Documents and Court Cases:

 

1873 Comstock Act.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws.

 

Bowers v. Harwick (1986). The Supreme Court Landmark Cases. Public Broadcasting System.  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_bowers.html .

 

Glenn v. Brumby (2011). Lambda Legal. http://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/cases/glenn-v-brumby-et-al

 

Hollingsworth v. Perry. Scotus Blog. July 30, 2013.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/hollingsworth-v-perry/

 

Lawrence v. Kansas Legal Decision (2003). https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZO.html

 

Macy v. Holder (2013). https://www.eeoc.gov/decisions/0120120821%20Macy%20v%20DOJ%20ATF.txt 

 

Macy v. Holder (2013). Transgender Law Center. http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/8633

 

Obergefell v. Hodges. Scotus Blog. June 26, 2015.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/obergefell-v-hodges/

 

Romer v. Evans (1996). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer_v._Evans ; CSPAN video:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?67614-1/book-discussion-romer-v-evans

 

Schroer v. Billington (2015). http://www.aele.org/law/2008FPFEB/schroer-billington.html

Schroer v. Billington (2015).  http://transworkplace.blogspot.com/2008/09/landmark-federal-decision-on.html

 

U.S. v. Windsor. SCOTUS Blog. June 26, 2013.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/windsor-v-united-states-2/

 

U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment. U.S. Constitution Center. http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xiv

 

Articles:

 

Gay Marriage: Ball, Molly. “How Gay Marriage Became a Constitutional Right.” The Atlantic. July 1, 2015. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/gay-marriage-supreme-court-politics-activism/397052/

 

Boutilier v. INS Article: Queering Immigration in the Age of Trump: A Roundtable on Boutilier v. INS. Blogpost. May 22, 2017.  http://notchesblog.com/2017/05/22/queering-immigration-in-the-age-of-trump-a-roundtable-on-boutilier-v-ins/ 

 

Hollingsworth v. Perry / Proposition 8 / California Ban on Same Sex Marriage / Timeline of Events.Institute of Governmental Affairs, U.C. Berkeley.

https://igs.berkeley.edu/library/elections/proposition-8

 

Sacks, Mike. Supreme Court Rules on Prop 8, Let’s Gay Marriage Resume in California (Hollingsworth v. Perry Decision Explained). Huffington Post. June 26, 2013.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/supreme-court-prop-8_n_3434854.html

 

 

Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA): Frequently Asked Questions. GLAAD.

https://www.glaad.org/marriage/doma  

 

Greenhouse, Linda. The Supreme Court: Homosexual Rights; Justices, 6-3, Legalize Gay Sexual Conduct in Sweeping Reversal of Court’s ’86 Ruling. New York Times. June 27, 2003. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/us/supreme-court-homosexual-rights-justices-6-3-legalize-gay-sexual-conduct.html?pagewanted=all

 

Grossman, Joanna L. The EEOC Rules That Transgender Discrimination Is Sex Discrimination: The Reasoning Behind That Decision. Verdict. May 1, 2012. https://verdict.justia.com/2012/05/01/the-eeoc-rules-that-transgender-discrimination-is-sex-discrimination

 

Macy, Mia. Three Years and Counting. Huffington Post. February 2, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mia-macy/three-years-and-counting_b_6978302.html

 

 

 

Special Forces Commander Transitions from Man to Woman. ABC News. October 21, 2005. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/story?id=1235196&page=1

 

Turkewitz, Julie. “Transgender Rights in the Workplace Are Still Unclear.” The Atlantic. June 21,2012.  http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/transgender-rights-in-the-workplace-are-still-unclear/258822/

 

 

Scientists in Queer History

http://www.noglstp.org/publications-documents/queer-scientists-of-historical-note/