As the AP reports, graduate theses and dissertations may focus on sexual orientation or gender identity “only as a temporary exception for currently enrolled students.”
apnews.com/article/texa...
Everyone should be alarmed by the censorship Texas Tech University is imposing on students and faculty. The details are appalling. This kind of ideologically motivated suppression of scholarship on gender and sexuality has happened before in Russia and Hungary. www.fox4news.com/news/texas-t...
Highly relatable stories such as the time a portion of his wine inventory overheated and the condensation ruined the labels. Having to wonder if wealthy people invest in his business only because they’ve known him his whole life.
Wolfgang sweetie, announce the lead single
If you appreciated my @nybooks.com article, you'll love my new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, out from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social in April. Order with discount code BLUE20 at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...
The cover of Gavin Newsom’s book YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY
An unexpected thing about Gavin Newsom’s memoir: much of what he says about his father’s life comes from an oral history interview by the queer historian Martin Meeker
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
The aides are John Connally, Mary Rather, and Walter Jenkins
LBJ leaning on a sofa where three people are seated; ouija board on coffee table in front of them
LBJ with three aides and a ouija board.
Grad-school me would be very surprised by how much I’ve been reading and thinking about him.
I'm excited for Tim's deeply researched book about Walter Jenkins, LBJ's friend and de facto Chief of Staff who resigned after he was arrested for soliciting sex with a man in a YMCA restroom.
Pre-order your copy today!
Book cover with b&w photo of a man whispering in LBJ’s ear backstage under lights
Very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, OUTED: LBJ’S CONFIDANT AND THE ARREST THAT TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENCY.
Coming October 13 from University of Chicago Press!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Today, the Olympics banned transgender women from female category.
Read Doing Trans History Despite It All from Process Blog: https://ow.ly/bGsb50YzlBw
I got to the opera late and missed this. Is there video anywhere?
Allow me to tout my friend @timothysw.bsky.social’s book, “Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics”! www.pennpress.org/978081222406...
I know the talk here is about other stuff today, but I've been meaning to write more about my passions. HUGE credit to my dear friend, @timothysw.bsky.social, an Assoc. Prof. of History at Rutgers, who wrote "Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics", for his help on the historical notes.
A history card from the CTA pride train reads: Historical notes Finding community across the city Some of Chicago’s earliest queer community formed around the bohemian Towertown area (near Water Tower), the downtown Levee district and at South Side drag balls and cabarets. Notably, Finnie’s Halloween Ball, a legendary multiracial drag competition, began in the 1930s on the South Side and thrived for decades, gaining wide attention through publications who wrote about the event, such as Ebony. While North Side neighborhoods like Lakeview and Andersonville are now prominent LGBTQ+ hubs, people have connected and shared culture, art and ideas across the city. (Then, a pull-quote from Ebony Magazine reads:) “More than 1,500 spectators milled around outside Chicago’s Pershing Ballroom to get a glimpse of the bejeweled impersonators who arrived in limousines, taxis, Fords and even by streetcar.” –Ebony, 1953, regarding a Finnie’s Halloween Ball in transit-friendly Woodlawn
A history card from the CTA pride train reads: Historical notes Finding community across the city Nationwide, LGBTQ+ individuals faced widespread scrutiny, harassment, discrimination and even raids on social spaces. New York's Stonewall uprising in 1969 became a flashpoint that ignited a national era of activism and was emblematic of the struggles the community faced across the country. Chicago has a strong activist tradition. Notably, it was home to America’s first gay rights organization, The Society for Human Rights, founded by Henry Gerber in 1924, but it was at the turn of the 1970s where a critical mass of activism for liberation gelled. Groups like Chicago Gay Liberation (which included Women's and Black caucuses) formed and worked with other groups like Mattachine Midwest and countless others, and the city's first Pride march occurred in 1970.
A history card from the CTA pride train reads: Historical notes Chicago’s First Pride One year after the Stonewall uprising in New York, Chicago's first Pride event began 1970 and with a 150-200 person rally at Bughouse Square, known for public debate, followed by a march to the Civic Center (Daley Plaza). Within a few years, it had grown into to an annual event attended by thousands marching for freedom. Reflecting significant progress, the modern Pride Parade is a large celebration, widely supported by the city, elected officials and, of course, friends, family and allies of the diverse LGBTQ+ community and has become one of Chicago’s most attended annual events. We’re proud to welcome you aboard–no matter who you are, who you love, how you identify or where you’re from. When we say “All aboard,” we mean all!
This year I wanted to do more. I consulted with a historian and educator friend to come up with some history notes—just 3 cards to be added to the set, including one covering an aspect of Black, queer, Chicago history. It is on the Red Line, after all and I want to make sure more are represented.
The 2018 Pride Train with a wavy pattern of the classic six pride colors and the words "Ride with pride!" below the window line as people exit the train at the Wilson station. Bonus detail: my partner and family are in the foreground since we were taking the Red Line together!
The 2022 pride train stopped at Howard at the end of a northbound trip, which had bold stripes of both the classic pride flag, plus Black and brown in front and then the full set of trans flag stripes at the other end of the car to represent broader aspects of the community as designs progressed.
The 2024 Pride Train had a wavy, almost 60s- or 70s-like pattern of stripes that swooped up at one end and down at the other, creating bold horizontal stripes across the car body and inverted rainbow shapes at each end. The design was conscious to put Black and brown and trans colors at the cab ends of each reversible train, so no matter which way the cars were facing, those colors would be seen first as the train comes into view or enters a station.
A picture of the 2025 CTA Pride Train with bold, wavy stripes of color, again aligned to put the Black and brown stripes and trans stripes at the front end of each train by ensuring they appear at the cab ends of each car and thus are forward no matter which way the train is rolling along the tracks, with the classic pride colors right in step behind them.
Been meaning to write about this...
I’ve had the privilege to be allowed by my employer to be behind and see to fruition our Pride Train. Every year it’s meant to be a showing of welcoming and inclusion, though started as just a train wrap and mean to run from June 1 thru at least Market Days.
The Republican Party has found its roots: throwing people off their health care and bombing the Middle East.
Theo Von had Thomas Massie on his podcast. Nonstop criticism of US support for Israel, AIPAC. Quote: "America is just a shell company, an LLC for Israel"
Nobody calling them antisemitic or threatening to cancel or arrest them. Complete right-left asymmetry on this.
www.mediaite.com/media/podcas...
Protests are critical to resistance to authoritarianism - they help facilitate collective action and overcome preference falsification. There are lots of people who will stand up if others do too.