This Month in Queer History

TMQH Rerun: The Lavender Panthers

Our host, Julian, is sick this month, so we're bringing back a fan favorite episode from our first season - enjoy the story of gay vigilantes from the 1970's! Armed with guns and bats, the Lavender Panthers patrolled the streets of San Francisco to protect LGBTQ+ people from homophobic hate crimes from 1973-74.  Check out our show notes, linked below, for our sources, as well as articles, books, and documentaries in which you can learn more about the Lavender Panthers and other topics discussed in this episode. Thank you for listening! (Content notes: homophobic slurs used in quotations within their historical context.)  Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16x_Ah46VIOT6asoc3CWeJwoccLcABEoa4siRJ1SxO0M/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16x_Ah46VIOT6asoc3CWeJwoccLcABEoa4siRJ1SxO0M/edit?usp=sharing] Follow CAMP Rehoboth: fb.com/camprehobothcommunitycenter [https://www.facebook.com/camprehoboth.communitycenter/] camprehoboth.org [https://www.camprehoboth.org/] instagram.com/camprehoboth [https://www.instagram.com/camprehoboth/]

Polari: The Secret Gay Language

Dive into the secret slang language of queer Londoners - including the history of words like drag and camp! Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pds7R2x0ew84cGk42800R7B0W9pYRPk4r_lZZD2KDJI/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pds7R2x0ew84cGk42800R7B0W9pYRPk4r_lZZD2KDJI/edit?usp=sharing] Follow CAMP Rehoboth: fb.com/camprehobothcommunitycenter [https://www.facebook.com/camprehoboth.communitycenter/] camprehoboth.org [https://www.camprehoboth.org/] instagram.com/camprehoboth [https://www.instagram.com/camprehoboth/]

Bathhouses: Good, Clean Fun?

The first ever explicitly anti-gay raid on a business in the US was in 1903 on... a bathhouse? Dive into the private world of public sauna cruising on this episode of TMQH! Sources/Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xJmNLCnsFaUcpmMrToFKjGEefazG9XQ9mXvhv3z_8Bc/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xJmNLCnsFaUcpmMrToFKjGEefazG9XQ9mXvhv3z_8Bc/edit?usp=sharing] Follow CAMP Rehoboth: fb.com/camprehobothcommunitycenter [https://www.facebook.com/camprehoboth.communitycenter/] camprehoboth.org [https://www.camprehoboth.org/] instagram.com/camprehoboth [https://www.instagram.com/camprehoboth/]

Is Disco Gay?

They say that disco died in 1979... but did the "Disco Sucks" crowd actually succeed in killing disco? Learn about the life, love, death, and rebirth of disco in this month's episode of This Month in Queer History! Show Notes/Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IK32XFguaE5s1eG2kX98x9r-ba5HdZBUgID0Ig9i-dg/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IK32XFguaE5s1eG2kX98x9r-ba5HdZBUgID0Ig9i-dg/edit?usp=sharing] Follow CAMP Rehoboth: fb.com/camprehobothcommunitycenter [https://www.facebook.com/camprehoboth.communitycenter/] camprehoboth.org [https://www.camprehoboth.org/] instagram.com/camprehoboth [https://www.instagram.com/camprehoboth/]

Christine Jorgensen: The First Transgender Celebrity

In 1953, Christine Jorgensen became a household name when her story was plastered on the front page of the New York Daily News under the headline, "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty," catapulting her into a sudden, unexpected fame. Show Notes/Works Cited: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16BZY0z3lsguQOGXxgLgiwR-UdRfSgiQRrb5SW7fdWL8/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16BZY0z3lsguQOGXxgLgiwR-UdRfSgiQRrb5SW7fdWL8/edit?usp=sharing] Follow CAMP Rehoboth: fb.com/camprehobothcommunitycenter [https://www.facebook.com/camprehoboth.communitycenter/] camprehoboth.org [https://www.camprehoboth.org/] instagram.com/camprehoboth [https://www.instagram.com/camprehoboth/]