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An LGBTQ History of Boston, Provincetown, and Beyond

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"This LGBTQ history of Boston and Provincetown begins with the coming of Europeans to Massachusetts in and ends with the victory over the referendum to overturn gender diverse rights in It includes many steep points of these four hundred years: the torrid romances of nineteenth century actress Charlotte Cushman, the glamorous nightlife of s Boston, the wild times of s Provincetown, and the fantastic outpouring of happiness that accompanied the country's first queer marriages. And it describes the tragedies: murders of transgender women and homosexual men, the terrible waves of repression of the s, and the devastation of the AIDS years. It documents how LGBTQ people have been submit in the region at least since the coming of Europeans and how LGBTQ people had developed a political

Dr. Russ Lopez joins us this week to converse his recent book, The Hub of the Same-sex attracted Universe: An LGBTQ History of Boston, Provincetown, and Beyond.  Russ called in from a vacation in California to talk about Puritan attitudes toward sin and sodomy, the tardy 19th century golden age for LGBTQ Boston, the tragic toll of the AIDS crisis, and the long fight for marriage equality.


The Hub of the Gay Universe

Dr. Russ Lopez has a background in urban planning, studying cities, neighborhoods, and the links between the urban environment and public health.  He teaches at the Boston University School of Widespread Health, and he’s published three books related to that field. When he’s not busy studying, training, and writing about general health, he researches the history of Boston.  The Hub of the Same-sex attracted Universe is the third book he’s published in this area, following Boston’s South End: The Conflict of Ideas in a Historic Neighborhood and Boston The Decline and Rise of a Great World City. His new book traces the LGBTQ history of Boston and Provincetown from the moment the Pilgrims first enco

GAY HUB TITLE bc yesness

Legends

Idea: “Gay” hub title

add a rainbow colored hub title called “Gay”

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im not trying to be mean or repulsive in any way i just NEED this (well i more want it but you get the point i want it rly badly)

TallScissors

Welcome to the forums!

Anyway there are people who don’t like gays from some reason

So the hub title could be The Proud with “proud” in rainbow letters

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unikern1o3

rainbow ice cream costume?

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Centuwuria4

How about just “Pride”? And it could be in rainbow letters!

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Brialgic5

I agree with @Centuwuria and @TallScissors that it should be “Pride” or someone like that because (even though homophobia is against the rules) some people would not like it and it is a very controversial topic

Also I think it shouldn’t be “Gay” cause that only supports part of the LGBTQ+ community and not the whole thing.

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Pyroemperor6

yeah and also a lot of young people compete hive who think it’s funny and if it says, “Gay” they’re gonna be like “AAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA” bec

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by Steve Desroches

In this LGBT Identity festival Month and with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, it’s an appropriate time to reflect on the remarkable progress made toward equality and also on the work still left to perform. In order to know where we’re going we have to know where we’ve been. History is all about the future. One of the most brutal tools of oppression is denying a people the knowledge and the truth about their possess history via censorship, lack of inclusion, and academic denial. Many complain that the culture at large is ignorant of LGBT history, and at times that lack of information is display within said community. But where are people to go to learn about LGBT history?

While not new, the area of scholarship around LGBT history has been small and often relegated to elective status. But at the moment, the study and documentation of LGBT history is expanding at an unprecedented rate. Museums, archives, and libraries of all kinds across the country (indeed the world) are racing to bring their collections u