Highly public pressure campaigns against telephone companies were the crux of early LGBTQ activism.
History
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Queens of Infamy: Mariamne I
In the ancient hot mess known as Judea, a young queen had to navigate a self-destructive royal dynasty and one of history’s worst husbands.
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All Hail the Rat King
From Martin Luther to The Nutcracker, Germany’s original national nightmare was a tangled knot of writhing rats.
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Responding With Weapons to Racism in Colorado Territory
Reexamining the motives of Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers.
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‘The American People Have Been Constantly Lied To’
“U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.”
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Where are the Gay Ladies of Cambodia?
Honeymooning in Cambodia, Lindsey Danis and her wife seek refuge in queer spaces, but struggle to find the acceptance granted to male travelers.
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All Hail the Inventor of the Crock Pot: Irving Nachumsohn
Irving Nachumsohn invented the crock pot so that his family didn’t have to use the stove to prepare dinner on hot summer evenings. You’re welcome.
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Let Me Show You the World
Almost everything you think you know about Aladdin is wrong.
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‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’
Nina MacLaughlin discusses her retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “[In] my very vague high school memories…there was no discussion of the fact that this book is just rape after rape after rape.”
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Whose Boots on the Ground
We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?