{"id":8150,"date":"2016-05-24T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T10:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2016-07-18T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:53:14","slug":"2016-06-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-06-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Journey to Stonewall: An Illustrated History of LGBTQ America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Prof. Nancy C. Unger<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>June 12, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tremendous gains are being made in revealing the long, rich, colorful, heartbreaking, and inspiring history of LGBTQ people in the United States. Too often, however, that history is reduced to the Stonewall Riots of 1969 or (especially here in California) the life and martyrdom of Harvey Milk. This illustrated presentation highlights the documented presence of people acting on same-sex desires as early as the 1600s, actions surprisingly tolerated within their communities. We\u2019ll follow the transformation of women\u2019s \u201cromantic friendships\u201d into \u201cBoston Marriages,\u201d the roles of President Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. military, and McCarthism in promoting homophobia. The presentation concludes with the pre-Stonewall movements to eradicate internalized homophobia, and to remove the medical, legal, and social stigmas attached to same-sex love. Prof. Nancy C. Unger is a Professor of History at Santa Clara University, where her regular course offerings include &#8220;Lesbians and Gay Men in U.S. History.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"pp-slideshow-1450778090\" class=\"pp-slideshow-placeholder pp-gallery-placeholder slideshow-1450778090 mceItem alignleft\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/p4\/placeholders\/slideshow-placeholder-1450778090.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/175189669\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/175189669\">Humanist Community Forum (2016-06-12): Long Journey to Stonewall: An Illustrated History of LGBTQ America (Nancy C. Unger)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Nancy C. Unger June 12, 2016 Tremendous gains are being made in revealing the long, rich, colorful, heartbreaking, and inspiring history of LGBTQ people in the United States. Too often, however, that history is reduced to the Stonewall Riots of 1969 or (especially here in California) the life and martyrdom of Harvey Milk. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-06-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Long Journey to Stonewall: An Illustrated History of LGBTQ America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8214,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions\/8214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}