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In this episode, I'm joined by my friend Smith, who tells us all about Charlotte Cushman!

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Sources Used in this Episode

1. Lisa Merrill. When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
2. Lillian Faderman. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Sixteenth Century to the Present. New York: Morrow, 1981.
3. Emma Stebbins. Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life. United States: Nabu Press, 2014.

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In this episode, I chat about Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender woman to undergo gender affirmation surgery in the 20th century, as well as the movie made about her.

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Sources Used in this Episode

1. https://www.thoughtco.com/lili-elbe-biography-4176321
2. Alice Domurat Dreger. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. (Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 1998), 82.
3. Elizabeth Reis. "Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960." Journal Of American History 92, no. 2 (September 2005), 412.
4. The Temporality of Modernist Life Writing in the Era of Transsexulialism
5. Lilli Elbe. Man Into Woman: The First Sex Change, a Portrait of Lili Elbe: The True and Remarkable Transformation of the Painter Einar Wegener. Ed. Niels Hoyer (London: Blue Boat Books, 2004), 22.
6. Elizabeth Reis. "Impossible Hermaphrodites: Intersex in America, 1620-1960." Journal Of American History 92, no. 2 (September 2005), 412.
7. The Temporality of Modernist Life Writing in the Era of Transsexulialism
8. https://www.thoughtco.com/lili-elbe-biography-4176321
9. Worthen, Meredith. "Lili Elbe Biography." Bio.com.
10. Who’s Who, Lili Elbe
11. https://www.them.us/story/why-scarlett-johansson-or-any-cis-actor-should-never-play-trans-roles
12. https://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/regressive-reductive-and-harmful-a-trans-womans-take-on-tom-hoopers-embarrassing-danish-girl-213499/

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In this episode I focus on five important LGBTQ+ organizations that formed post-stonewall!

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Sources Used In this Episode:

1. Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
2. Bronski, Michael. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Boston, MA: Beacon Press Books, 2011.
3. GLF’s Statement of Purpose, Printed in Rat, 8/12/1969
4. http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/gay_activists_alliance_S.pdf
5. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-gay-activists-challenged-politics-civility-180969579/
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=8z8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
7. http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/gay_activists_alliance_S.pdf
8. Clendinen, Dudley, and Adam Nagourney. Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement inAmerica. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
9. Kissack, Terence. "Gay Activists Alliance (GAA)." Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia. George E.Haggerty, ed. New York: Garland, 2000. 363-64.
10. McGarry, Molly, and Fred Wasserman. Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life inTwentieth-Century America. New York: Penguin Studio, 199
11. https://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-73/
12. Cohen, Stephan L. (2007). The Gay Youth Liberation Movement in New York: 'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail'. New York: Routledge. pp. 89–163.
13. Rivera, Sylvia (2002). Queens in Exile, the Forgotten Ones. Voices Beyond the Sexual Binary. Los Angeles: Alyson Books.
14. Jay, Karla Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000.
15. E. M. Ettore. Lesbians, Women and Society. (London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982,) 146.
16. Betty Friedan. Life So Far. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 222.
17. Alice Echols. Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989): 213.
18. Radicalesbians. "The Woman-Identified Woman." 1970. MS Wlmms01011, Digital Collection. Duke University. Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Archives. Web.
19. http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/radicalesbians_S.pdf
20. https://www.thetaskforce.org/about/mission-history.html
21. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/94/hr5452
22. https://www.thetaskforce.org/about.html

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In this Episode, I focus on various smaller riots and actions of the LGBTQ+ community that took place in the 1960s prior to Stonewall, as well as covering the Stonewall Riots.

Sources Used in this Episode

1. Sides, Josh. Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
2. The Council of Religion and the Homosexual. The LGBT Religious Archives Network. Online Exhibit. Accessed November 12, 2016.
3. Vicki L. Eaklor. “Gay Rights Movement, US.” Social Sciences and History. GLBTQ Encyclopedia Archives, GLBTQ Inc: (2008), 1.
4. Martin Duberman. Stonewall. (New York, NY: Plume Books: 1994), 194.
5. https://www.them.us/story/who-threw-the-first-brick-at-stonewall
6. http://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/picket-at-the-great-hall-cooper-union-second-ever-u-s-gay-rights-protest/ 7.mhttp://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/picket-in-front-of-u-s-army-building-first-ever-u-s-gay-rights-protest/
7. Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1991.
8. Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
9. STEIN, MARC. 2019. “A Theory of Revolution for the Riots.” Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 26 (3): 19–20.
10. “The Black Cat.” 2009. Advocate, no. 1023 (February): 23.
11. BONDY, RENÉE. 2018. “Revisiting the Stonewall Narrative.” Herizons 32 (2): 10–11.
12. Jerome Rodriguez, 2017. “Randy Wicker, Unsung Hero in LGBT-Rights Movement.” LGBT History Month. Philadelphia Gay News (Oct-27-Nov. 2): 13.
13. “Randolfe “Randy” Wicker. 2007. “Speaking ‘Truth to Power’” Gay & Lesbian Times, Uptown Publications.

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Welcome back to LGBTimeMachine!

In this episode we take a closer look at the 1950s, specifically the Lavendar Scare, the Homophile Movement, and the LGBTQ+ Bar Scene.

Sources Used in this Episode 1. Naoko Shibusawa. “The Lavender Scare and the Empire: Rethinking Cold War Antigay 2. Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1991. 3. Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 4. Ruth M. Pettis. “Homophile Movement, US.” Social Sciences and History. GLBTQ Encyclopedia Archives, GLBTQ Inc: (2008). 5. Gordon Babst. “Hooker, Evelyn (1907-1996)” Social Sciences and History. GLBTQ Encyclopedia Archives, GLBTQ Inc: (2004), 2. 6. Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)

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LGBTimeMachine is a brand new LGBTQ+ History Podcast!

In this episode we focus on the criminalization and persecution of homosexuality to try and shed some light on what it was like to be in the LGBTQ+ community in the 20th Century.

Sources Used In Research for This Episode

1. Trans: J. S. Arkenberg. “The Code of the Assura, c. 1075 BCE.” Ancient History Sourcebook. July 1998.
2. Belonsky, Andrew. “Remembering The Ariston Baths, New York’s First Anti-Gay Raid.” Towleroad. October 08, 2010.
3. Chauncey, George (1995). Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 (Reprint ed.). Basic Books
4. Donovan, Brian. Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900-1919. State University of New York. 2016.
5. Dynes, Wayne R. (22 March 2016). “Encyclopedia of Homosexuality”. Routledge – via Google Books. 1418.
6. Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1991.
7. Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
8. “Ariston Baths.” Gay History Wiki.
9. Great Britain. Parliament. Public and General Acts. House of Commons Papers. Comp. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. Vol. 71. London, UK: Parliament, 1860. WebPrint. 9 Geo.4 c.31, section XVIII.
10. Jay, Karla. Tales of the Lavender Menace. New York, NY: Basic Books. 1999.
11. Painter, George. “The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States - Virginia.” The History of Sodomy Laws in the United States: Virginia.
12. People of the State of New York v Walter Bennett (Court of General Sessions June 8, 1903) (Llyod Seally Library Digital Collections, Dist. file).
13. People of the State of New York v Abraham Kregal (Court of General Sessions April 7, 1903) (Llyod Seally Library Digital Collections, Dist. file).
14. People of the State of New York v Michael Schnittel (Court of General Sessions April 9, 1903) (Llyod Seally Library Digital Collections, Dist. file).
15. People of the State of New York v Theodore Casson (Court of General Sessions April 6, 1903) (Llyod Seally Library Digital Collections, Dist. file)
16. Shibusawa, Naoko. “The Lavender Scare and the Empire: Rethinking Cold War Antigay Politics.” Diplomatic History 36, no. 4. Humanities International Complete, EBSCOhost.
17. Welles, Benjamin. “The Strange Life of Sumner Welles.”