Tim Curran was expelled from the Boy Scouts in 1981 for being gay — after even taking the fight to court.
45 years later, he’s back as a Scoutmaster.
That’s what progress looks like, even if it takes time.
#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #RepresentationMatters #FullCircle
📷 Tim Curran
🌈 Queer Figure — Happy Birthday Eric Idle (1943)
Comedy legend, Monty Python icon, and openly bisexual. Smart, silly, and just the right amount of inappropriate. We love range.
#QueerLegacy #QueerHistory
🌈 Queer Figure — Happy Birthday Tracy Chapman (1964)
Quiet, powerful, and queer as hell. Gave us Fast Car and then just casually became one of the greatest storytellers in music. No notes.
#LGBTQStories #QueerHistory
🌈 Queer Figure — Happy Birthday Paul Verlaine (1844)
Messy, brilliant, and very queer. His scandalous relationship with Arthur Rimbaud? Pure chaotic poet energy. Literature has never recovered.
#QueerHistory #QueerLegacy
DYK #MagnusHirschfeld (d.1935) was a doctor & “urning” who decided to improve the lot of men who had sex w/men? His first paper, “Sappho & Socrates, How Can One Explain the Love of Men & Women for Individuals of Their Own Sex”, explained same-sex desire & love. #QueerHistory
DYK the idea that being #queer was degenerate took hold in the late 19thC? Max Nordau declared it in “Degeneration” (1895). Even #AlbertMoll finally agreed that some men could convert & the degeneracy theory stuck fast. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
In 1498, Savonarola’s career came to an end. The city hanged him & publicly burned him for attacking the pope, the Medici—and the “sodomites” of Florence. #QueerHistory #QueerVictory #zoophilia
Can we exorcise these ghosts? Understanding our #HistSex can, by answering an important question: Where do the ghosts that haunt our #SexualPleasure come from? Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com answers that question. #IntersexAwareness #QueerHistory #TransHistory #WmnHist #zoophilia
DYK Carol Cassell says this #HistSex, HOW SEX GOT SCREWED UP, is “…a masterpiece about “…why we feel and act the way we do about sex” from the #StoneAge to #MeToo? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GayMarriage #QueerHistory #QueerSex #SexWork #TrumpKKKristian #WmnHist #Zoophilia
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On this day in queer history: 30 March 1958
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gave its first performance in NYC. Founder Alvin Ailey transformed modern dance and expanded Black and LGBTQ artistic visibility worldwide.
#AlvinAiley #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #AmericanDance
With Trans Day of Visibility on Tuesday, my ✨️ Queer History Substack ✨️ this week covers one of my favorite research topics: goddesses of the trans+ community! 👸🧜🏼♀️💫
You can read about a few of these fascinating deities below ⬇️ #QueerHistory #BookSky
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🌈 Queer History — March 29
📰 1973 — LGBTQ+ marches spread beyond major cities
Following early Pride protests, more U.S. cities began organizing marches and visibility events.
It marked a shift—this wasn’t just a moment, but a movement.
#QueerHistory #QueerLegacy #LGBTQStories
🌈 Queer Ally — Happy Birthday Lucy Lawless (b. 1968)
Best known for Xena: Warrior Princess, a show that became part of queer culture.
Lawless has supported LGBTQ+ rights and embraced the community that embraced her.
Your voice matters.
#QueerAlly #QueerHistory #LGBTQStories
🌈 Queer Figure — Happy Birthday Jean-Claude Brialy (b. 1933)
A key face of the French New Wave, working w/directors like Godard and Rohmer & helping shape an era of film.
Later in life, he spoke openly about being gay; that took courage.
#QueerHistory #QueerLegacy #LGBTQStories
🌈 Queer Figure — Happy Birthday Cy Twombly(b. 1928)
Influential American artist whose work pulls from mythology, poetry, & the human body
He lived openly as a gay man, & you can feel that sense of desire & emotion layered through his art
#QueerHistory #QueerLegacy #LGBTQStories
🌈 Queer Figure - Happy Birthday Christopher Rice (b. 1978)
Openly gay author. He’s carved out his own space in gothic & thriller fiction while continuing to center queer voices in his work.
A legacy name, but very much his own path.
#QueerHistory #QueerLegacy #LGBTQStories
DYK In 1878, the Italian Arrigo Tamassia (d.1917) claimed that “sexual inversion” was a disease? His “Sull’inversione dell’istinto sessuale”—“On the Inversion of the Sexual Instinct” declared #homosexuality was about inverted #gender, not sexual desire. #QueerHistory
DYK #EdwardIII was one of the stalwarts who doubted the Devil caused #sodomy? In 1376, he refused Parliament’s call to banish Jews & Muslims for introducing what it called “the too horrible vice, which is not named”. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #QueerHistory
DYK Carol Cassell says this #HistSex, HOW SEX GOT SCREWED UP, is “…a masterpiece about “…why we feel and act the way we do about sex” from the #StoneAge to #MeToo? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GayMarriage #QueerHistory #QueerSex #SexWork #TrumpKKKristian #WmnHist #Zoophilia
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On this day in queer history: 29 March 2009
NYC’s Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the nation’s first LGBTQ bookstore, closed after 42 years. Since 1967, it had been a vital community space for queer literature and visibility.
#QueerBooks #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerBookStores
5️⃣ Lasting Impact
These efforts helped reshape both activism and representation—laying the groundwork for more accurate portrayals and the ongoing fight for equality.
#QueerHistory #LGBTQ
A smiling person wearing a brown hat and large, gradient sunglasses, with ear piercings and a tattoo on their arm. They are sitting on stairs.
🌈 Queer Figure — Happy Birthday Kate Bornstein (b. 1948)
Trans icon and author of Gender Outlaw—educating, challenging, and outpacing the rest of us for decades. Catch up. #QueerHistory
On this day in queer history: 28 March 1990
Cincinnati officials threatened prosecution over a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit. The case became a landmark battle over LGBTQ art, censorship, and free expression. The museum was later acquitted
#RobertMapplethorpe #Cincinnati #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory
Even when the script didn't name us, we signed our names anyway — in colors, flowers, ornaments, and melodies. The holidays have always been queer. 🎄 #QueerHistory
A performer with long blonde hair sings passionately into a microphone while wearing a colorful jacket, black crop top, and high-waisted shorts with fringe. They are also wearing sunglasses and a black beret, standing in front of a festive backdrop.
🌈 Queer Figure — Happy Birthday Lady Gaga (b. 1986)
Bisexual icon, chaos queen, and the reason half of you figured yourselves out. You’re welcome. #QueerHistory #LGBTQ
Whatever caused it, softness in a man was a vice. It resulted from a lack of virility & self-control. Rome stigmatized effeminacy in the same way that it generally hated women. Pace #Foucault! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #HistSex #QueerHistory #TransHistory
What is the impact of women and queer people on the national security state? In this Q&A, Dorian Rhea Debussy discusses THE LAVENDER BANS and how women and queer people led change in the military and intelligence community. buff.ly/vO5TeE7 #LavenderBans #LGBTQHistory #MilitaryHistory #QueerHistory
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