The final Pride playlist drop is here, 20 essential bangers that brought the fight, the glitter, and the feels. 
Hit play on the music that moved us through the 80s.
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The first volume of @cjdebarra's oral history of queer Nottingham will be out ahead of Notts Pride https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/queer-nottingham-1960-1990/
fiveleavesbookshop.co.ukQueer Nottingham 1960-1990 – Five Leaves Bookshop
"T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness excavates the hidden sexualities of Black female entertainers who reigned over the nascent blues recording industry of the 1920s. Unlike the male-dominated jazz scene, early blues provided a space for women to take the lead and model an autonomy that was remarkable for women of any color or sexual orientation."
Free at Kanopy with your library card!
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Queer Appalachian Authors Are Challenging J.D. Vance’s False Narratives
Storytelling is pushing back against the dominant idea that queerness and rural life are incompatible.
voices.murica.websiteQueer Appalachian Authors Are Challenging J.D. Vance’s False Narratives – The USA Potato
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This is a pretty decent summary from @TheJournal of the history of queer liberation movement and Pride in Ireland:
"From less than a dozen marchers to tens of thousands: A history of Dublin Pride"
https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-pride-history-how-it-started-and-evolved-6742433-Jun2025/
TheJournal.ie · From less than a dozen marchers to tens of thousands: A history of Dublin PrideThe celebration of Pride in Ireland today has its roots in the boots-on-the-ground activism of the 1970s and 1980s.
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 
"The Sacred Band [of Thebes], we are told, was first formed by Gorgidas, of 300 chosen men, to whom the city furnished exercise and maintenance and who encamped in the Kadmeia. But some say that this band was composed of lovers and beloved." 
Plutarch, The Parallel Lives
Kylix, ca. 500 BCE, Antikensammlung #Berlin
@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory
Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed Gender
https://digpodcast.org/2025/06/23/female-husbands-or-people-have-always-transed-gender/
#AverillsBookLoveInTheLav #BritishHistory #LGBTQHistory #SocialHistory #TransHistory #USHistory #WomensHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons
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Also check out our first author interview with Chiang about his 2019 work, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China.
Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3Cl
In 1958, KPFA’s Elsa Knight Thompson interviewed Hal Call of the Mattachine Society and psychologist Dr. Blanche Baker, who challenged the idea that homosexuality was an illness or an abnormality.
Today, the conversation is believed to be the earliest known radio broadcast to openly discuss homosexuality.
Listen to the full program in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting courtesy of KPFA: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_28-3n20c4st80
This #ThrowbackThursday we’re zooming our #transhistory lens onto the topic of female husbands and people assigned female at birth who dressed in male attire, lived as men, and loved women.
First, let’s turn to Jen Manion’s Female Husbands, focused on 18th and 19th century couples in which the husbands were assigned female at birth.
Read our interview with Manion here: https://wp.me/p6JJ6S-4uX
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NOTCHES · Female Husbands: A Trans HistoryLong before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them.
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@christineburns Did you see the Pride flags all along the Liffey?
An annual tradition, and continued by Dublin City Council partly in tribute to their late colleague, Ed Bowden, who began the initiative some years ago, and who sadly passed away in April 2021.
Dublin InQuirer · It was 100 years ago that the Tricolour was first raised over City Hall - Dublin InquirerThese days it’s Ed Bowden, a member of Vexillology Ireland, who’s in charge of the city’s flags, including the tricolour fluttering over Dame Street.
**Test Your Pride Knowledge 
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Think you know LGBTQ+ history? Put your knowledge to the test with this fun Pride Month quiz! 
#PrideMonth #LGBTQHistory #TriviaTime 
[7 Questions: Pride Month Edition](https://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_scene/trivia/7-questions-pride-month-edition/article_752a3666-795b-471c-a703-dd8a7391e623.html)
A global whirlwind of queer joy, protest, flags, and deeply chaotic traditions.
From yodeling to goat-dressing, from Stonewall to rainbow boats in Amsterdam—we’re talking all things Pride, everywhere.
The U.S. Navy is considering renaming naval ships named after civil rights leaders including Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, and Lucy Stone, the abolitionist and suffragist. Here's more from @CBSNews.
#UnitedStates #USMilitary #HarveyMilk #ThurgoodMarshall #LucyStone #USHistory @histodons #Pride #LGBTQHistory #TrumpAdministration
**Queer History Preserved Globally 
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Discover five incredible museums dedicated to LGBTQ+ heritage, keeping queer stories alive for future generations. Dive into the past and celebrate resilience!
[outlooktraveller.com](https://www.outlooktraveller.com/amp/story/experiences/heritage/5-lgbtq-museums-across-the-world-preserving-queer-history)
#LGBTQHistory #QueerCulture #MuseumLove #VisibilityMatters
Pride Month 2026: A Reflection on Resistance and Resilience
https://gallivanting-rainbows.com/read/2025-06-03/pride-month-2026-a-reflection-on-resistance-and-resilience #LGBTQHistory #Resistance #Resilience #PrideMonth2026 #Activism
Gallivanting RainbowsPride Month 2026: A Reflection on Resistance and Resilience
New Episode: Pride Across Borders A global whirlwind of queer joy, protest, flags, and deeply chaotic traditions. From yodeling to goat-dressing, from Stonewall to rainbow boats in Amsterdam—we’re talking all things Pride, everywhere. https://apocalypseandavocados.transistor.fm/s1/18
June is here — and so is Pride Month, a time to honor the LGBTQ+ community’s history, resilience, and ongoing fight for equality.
To our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and community: You deserve safety, rights, and to be fully seen — in policy, in history books, and in everyday life.
Let’s celebrate Pride and keep fighting for true equality — not just in June, but always.
