Terror and Vice: Los Angeles’ Painful Gay History

Today LA is viewed as a sort of progressive paradise (it isn't)... but what was history really like for the LGBTQ community, and why? Come learn with me! Twitter:   / kazrowe   Sources: Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth by Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage Gay LA by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons Gay New York by George Chauncey Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman The Lesbian Herstory Archives “Character Assassins”: How the FBI Used the Issue of Homosexuality against the Black Freedom Struggle by Jared Leighton Women-Identified Women: Trans Women in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Organizing by Emma Heaney Unacceptable Mannerisms: Gender Anxieties, Homosexual Activism, and Swish in the United States, 1945-1965 by Craig M. Loftin From Subversion to Obscenity: The FBI's Investigations of the Early Homophile Movement in the United States, 1953-1958 by DOUGLAS M. CHARLES Containing "Perversion": African Americans and Same-Sex Desire in Cold War Los Angeles by KEVIN ALLEN LEONARD When Hollywood Studios Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexuality a Secret, THAD MORGAN https://www.history.com/news/hollywoo... Citizen Surveillance by SIMON J. JUDKINS The Los Angeles Times Archive 'The Beginning of a Conversation': What It Was Like to Be an LGBTQ Activist Before Stonewall By Jess McHugh https://time.com/longform/mattachine-... Images and Video: Martin Turnbull Los Angeles Public Library PBS KCET Getty Images The LA Times and The LA Herald ONE Archives