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Not really the thread for this, I don't think? Maybe this thread instead: https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/transgender-rights.379/page-66 The goal of this thread was for me to try to write a summary of the LGBT movement in the US (that I've since left to languish, sadly) and...

Oh, I've always agreed that the Greeks were not really much of a gay paradise (same thing with Feudal Japan, and other cultures). Instead it was a pederast's paradise (though it's nice to learn that some of the relationships weren't sexual). It checks out when you consider that many of the...

This post is clearly out of chronological order, but let's look at how gay rights was won. CAPITALISM: First, capitalism was integral to victory throughout. Anyone who says that capitalism is heterocentrist or whatever is an idiot, a liar, or both. In the beginning, when they were most...

Also, if people have questions about gay history or parts they'd like me to focus on first, I'd be happy todo so, as this only somewhat a chronological history (I'll fix that by ordering the threadmarks).

I think it's also important to look at how gay people interacted while it was largely illegal. First, there are basically two reasons one would want to meet up with other gays then: allowing you to be fully yourself, and sex/romance (though few felt hope for the later at that time, it was...

Prior to Stonewall, few Americans knew much about gays. It was considered a mental illness by psychologists, and some treatments included lobotomy, sterilization, and electroshock therapy. Walter Freeman, the 'Father of Lobotomy' who traveled around the country performing lobotomy with an...

So this is me deciding to finally start a long term writing project. Basically, a history of the Gay Liberation movement (as it was first called), what started it, and what it became. Some warnings: This will be done piecemeal as I get to parts of history that I know, and some things in this...