LGBTimeMachine

Theo Adelberg•www.theorangegroves.com

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LGBTimeMachine is a brand new podcast dedicated to exploring and discussing LGBTQ+ history.

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Episodes

Episode 6 - SPOTLIGHT on Charlotte Cushman

In this episode, I'm joined by my friend Smith, who tells us all about Charlotte Cushman! Useful Links: The Orange Groves Network Join Our New Discord! [Charlotte Cushman Letters (Brought to us by Smith!)] ( https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bXRV4MXJ7xepjcfuJ6KiumUe8AnMuKvR?usp=sharing ) Contact Us: LGBTimeMachine's Twitter Theo's Twitter [Smith's Twitter] ( https://twitter.com/smithillustrate ) Sources Used in this Episode Lisa Merrill. When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Ci...

Mar 01, 2020•1 hr 13 min

Episode 5 - SPOTLIGHT on Lili Elbe

In this episode, I chat about Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender woman to undergo gender affirmation surgery in the 20th century, as well as the movie made about her. Useful Links: The Orange Groves Network Join Our New Discord! Contact Us: LGBTimeMachine's Twitter Theo's Twitter Sources Used in this Episode https://www.thoughtco.com/lili-elbe-biography-4176321 Alice Domurat Dreger. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. (Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 1998),...

Feb 01, 2020•50 min

Episode 4 - Organizations & Protests & Zaps, Oh My!

In this episode I focus on five important LGBTQ+ organizations that formed post-stonewall! Useful Links: The Orange Groves Network Life Magainze 12/31/1971 Pages 62-73 Join Our New Discord! Contact Us: LGBTimeMachine's Twitter Theo's Twitter Sources Used In this Episode: Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Bronski, Michael. A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History). Boston, MA: Beacon Press Books, 2011. GLF’s Statement of Pur...

Oct 23, 2019•57 min

Episode 3 - A Riotus Decade

In this Episode, I focus on various smaller riots and actions of the LGBTQ+ community that took place in the 1960s prior to Stonewall, as well as covering the Stonewall Riots. Sources Used in this Episode Sides, Josh. Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. The Council of Religion and the Homosexual. The LGBT Religious Archives Network. Online Exhibit. Accessed November 12, 2016. Vicki L. Eaklor. “Gay Rights Movement, US.” So...

Jun 28, 2019•41 min

Episode 2 - Homo-File this Away

Welcome back to LGBTimeMachine! In this episode we take a closer look at the 1950s, specifically the Lavendar Scare, the Homophile Movement, and the LGBTQ+ Bar Scene. Sources Used in this Episode 1. Naoko Shibusawa. “The Lavender Scare and the Empire: Rethinking Cold War Antigay 2. Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1991. 3. Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution. New York, NY: Simon &a...

May 14, 2019•38 min

Episode 1 - Be Gay, Do Crimes

LGBTimeMachine is a brand new LGBTQ+ History Podcast! In this episode we focus on the criminalization and persecution of homosexuality to try and shed some light on what it was like to be in the LGBTQ+ community in the 20th Century. Sources Used In Research for This Episode Trans: J. S. Arkenberg. “The Code of the Assura, c. 1075 BCE.” Ancient History Sourcebook. July 1998. Belonsky, Andrew. “Remembering The Ariston Baths, New York’s First Anti-Gay Raid.” Towleroad. October 08, 2010. Chauncey, G...

May 14, 2019•50 min

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