Gender & LGBTQ+ Histories

3+ hour, 32+ min ago   (338+ words) Beyond the Cities of the Plain: Settler Sexuality and Gender on Victoria's Goldfields is the theme of the next Weston Bate Memorial Lecture at Sovereign Hill. Image: Trove. Settler sexuality and gender on the Victorian Goldfields is about to form…...

10+ hour, 46+ min ago   (634+ words) Victoria Woodhull in 1870. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Victoria Woodhull was a “free lover,” a Wall Street broker, a news publisher and a clairvoyant. You won’t soon forget her story, says historian Victoria Flexner. Perhaps you have come across the name Victoria…...

20+ hour, 38+ min ago   (109+ words) Other items carry equally personal weight. A World War II-era journal kept by Robert Aycock, a veteran from Montgomery, Alabama, describes his experiences while stationed abroad. There's also a disco ball recovered from Tuscaloosa's longest-running gay bar, which closed in…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (682+ words) More than 5,000 years ago, a royal woman called Meretneith (also written as Merneith), lived in ancient Egypt. She was possibly the daughter of Djer, the third king of the First Dynasty, a period when the first kings ruled over a…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (641+ words) More than 5,000 years ago, a royal woman called Meretneith (also written as Merneith), lived in ancient Egypt. She was possibly the daughter of Djer, the third king of the First Dynasty, a period when the first kings ruled over a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (76+ words) 25 years ago September 11, 2001 Drive past the site of the new elementary school at 20th and Home Ave. in Pittsburg, and finally, finally, there is something to see. Masons started work this week on the foundation, which is now beginning to emerge…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (744+ words) AE2S, a civil and environmental engineering firm based in Maple Grove, earned re… The Rockford High School football team kicked off its season… Life stopped for what seemed like an eternity on Sept. 11, 2001, when the iconic Twin Towers became targets of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (792+ words) In 1961, Carrie Meek became the first Black educator at Miami Dade College, then called North Dade Junior College, working her way through the ranks to associate dean and eventually becoming a state legislator and congresswoman. So, it was only fitting…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (39+ words) News Scoop: Titanic Museum Planned For Halifax Waterfront The Macdonald Notebook The Macdonald Notebook is your source for exclusive Business & Inside Politics publishing every Saturday and Sunday. Please Login or Subscribe Existing users should login using the below form....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1382+ words) On a random Sunday night at his parents’ house, Kevin Allen asked a question that seemed simple enough — where did gay Calgarians hang out in the ’50s and ’60s? That small family conversation created an itch for history Allen has never been…...