Postwar law enforcement leaders rarely prepared patrol officers for policing of gay and lesbian people.
Tag: homophobia
Operation Hyacinth and Poland’s Pink Files
The aim of the operation was to detain, interrogate, and register both actual and alleged homosexuals.
Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s
The conservative idea that civil rights protections sexually endanger women and children in public bathrooms is not new.
“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman
The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.
Why I Oppose a General Pardon for Historical Convictions for Homosexual Offences
Why a general pardon is good politics but bad history.
‘Pray the gay away’: The Catholic Church, Sexology and Sexuality in Italy
There is a new movement to ‘pray the gay away’ at a Catholic retreat in Angolo Terme in Brescia.
Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen
In the end, silences in the historical record may tell us as much about poor journalistic research as they tell us about antigay bias.
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