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

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

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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.

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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.
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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)

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.

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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.
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8. “Ariston Baths.” Gay History Wiki.
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17. Welles, Benjamin. “The Strange Life of Sumner Welles.”