Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Thomas Morton and Merrymount
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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Thomas Morton and Merrymount

Morton was a much more liberal leader than his contemporaries. In addition to making anyone who resided there free men he also maintained close relationships with the surrounding indigenous communities. In 1627, Morton made the decision to commemorate the renaming of the colony by holding a May Day celebration and erecting an 80-foot high pole, covered in garlands and ribbon, and topped with deer antlers. During the several days of celebration men and women from the local indigenous communities were invited to join. Some accounts claim the residents danced in a manner evocative of Ganymede and Zeus, figures that were often used to represent same-sex coupling.


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The Ritual of Pride
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The Ritual of Pride

Instead of making offers to the land to ensure an abundance of grain we are instead planting seeds of hope to sustain us through the next year. We celebrate our continued survival in the face of systems and ideologies that would seek to erase and destroy us, and mourn those we have lost to violence and oppression. We lift up our dead in prayer, song, dance, sex, and celebration to ensure their stories carry on.

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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Leonard Matlovich
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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Leonard Matlovich

Leonard Matlovich was an American Vietnam War veteran, recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star, and was the first openly gay service member to purposely out himself to the military in order to fight their ban on gay men serving in the armed forces. He is also the first named openly gay person to appear on the cover of a U.S. news magazine.

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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Federico García Lorca
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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theater director. He is considered one of the most important Spanish poets of the 20th century. He was a member of the Generation of ‘27, which was a group of poets who brought modern European artistic movements into Spanish literature. During the Spanish Civil War in the 1930’s he toured rural Spain and put on free theatrical shows of classical Spanish theatre before being arrested by Nationalist militias and assassinated.

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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Tryals of Thomas Vaughan and Thomas Davis
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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Tryals of Thomas Vaughan and Thomas Davis

Glory holes. Arguably one of the most recognizable cultural artifacts of contemporary gay culture due to it's relationship to cruising and anonymous sex, something that marked the reality of the gay male experience in the Western world for centuries. When loving the person you want, either romantically or physically, is against the law and can land you in prison, an asylum, or worse, you find ways to satisfy your needs as safely and discreetly as possible.

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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kuromiya
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Queer Ancestor Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kuromiya

Kiyoshi Kuromiya was a Japanese-American author, advocate, and activist who was involved in the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War protests, gay liberation, and HIV/AIDS activism. He worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and was one of the founders of the the first medical treatment and competency guidelines produced by people living with HIV/AIDS for their community.

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