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Three films, three protests
I’m currently working on synthesizing a number of existing accounts of minority protests against films of the silent and early sound eras, of the first social scientific accounts of the influence of...
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Some Image Awards ephemera
Program cover, 1972 NAACP Image Awards. (Papers of the NAACP, microfilm, Part 29, Series A, Reel 12)If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I’ve plunged back into the voluminous microfilmed...
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On air
Screenshots from Oxygen.com in December 2000 (left, courtesy Archive.org) and today (right). Note: Addendum added below. For a side project (but ultimately also as background for the dissertation),...
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“The civil rights push deserves much of the credit”
Charlton Heston, James Baldwin, and Marlon Brando at the March on Washington in 1963. Sidney Poitier is in the background, and Harry Belafonte is standing behind Brando (USIA photo, via Wikimedia...
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Rapid response
Add-a-gay Tim Bagley (cc photo by NoHoDamon) Last week, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) released its 2009-2010 Network Responsibility Index, “an evaluation of the quantity,...
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Whither the academic’s office in the digital age?
(cc photo by vikasiamoto) In this video from Book TV, Brown University historian Gordon Wood discusses his research and writing practices while offering a tour of his home office… and his campus...
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Back into the archives
After a stop in Vermont over the weekend, I’m about to embark on two dissertation research trips, first to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, and then to Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell. This...
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Archives and online collections in U.S. LGBT history
(cc photo by library riot) This post accompanies a talk I’m giving today about my current research at Cornell’s Human Sexuality Collection. I’ll be speaking about my dissertation, with a focus on its...
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Equality Matters and the new gay activism
Yesterday came news of Equality Matters, a new creation of Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog founded by gay conservative-turned-liberal journalist David Brock in 2004. Equality...
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A quick queer history pilgrimage
I’ve been submerged lately in the records of the Gay Activists Alliance, the most prominent gay activist organization in New York City during the early 1970s. From 1971 until the building was heavily...
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