Why Do We Idolize LGBTQ Historical Figures?

With Pride month around the corner, let's take a dive into some thoughts about the way we engage with history and historical figures, and what it means for our struggle to recover a collective history.

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Time stamps

00:00 Intro
00:50 Education and the reframing of history
05:12 The Stonewall Myth
06:33 The search for collective history
11:00 Including wrongdoings in the story
16:40 Conclusion and Sources

Sources:

[1] “How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history”, https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/ig6W6vJ5

[2] Greg Huffman, “TWISTED SOURCES: How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South's schoolbooks”, https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks

[3] Alexandra Burgos for NPS Cultural Landscapes Program, Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera

[4] Gillian Brockell, “The transgender women at Stonewall were pushed out of the gay rights movement. Now they are getting a statue in New York.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/12/transgender-women-heart-stonewall-riots-are-getting-statue-new-york/

[5] National Park Service, 2016, LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History

[6] Mary Bernstein, Identities and Politics: Toward a Historical Understanding of the Lesbian and Gay Movement

[7] Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage, Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth

[8] Angelina Chapin, “Why Talking About Bowie’s Sexual Misconduct Matters”, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-talking-about-bowies-sexual-misconduct-matters_b_9009230

[9] Nik Moreno, “Why We Need To Stop Glorifying David Bowie”, https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/why-we-need-to-stop-glorifying-david-bowie/

[10] Lara Trubowitz, Concealing Leonard's Nose: Virginia Woolf, Modernist Antisemitism, and "The Duchess and the Jeweller"

[11] Kate Krueger Henderson, Fashioning Anti-Semitism: Virginia’s Woolf’ “The Duchess and The Jeweller” and the readers of Harper’s Bazaar

[12] Chrysanthemum Tran, “When Remembering Stonewall, We Need To Listen to Those Who Were There”, https://www.them.us/story/who-threw-the-first-brick-at-stonewall

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