E se Donald Trump stesse sbagliando i propri conti? Sono molte le voci di osservatori e analisti di primo piano che negli ultimi giorni hanno iniziato a descrivere con scetticismo il caos sconclusionato e privo di strategia delineato dalle controverse scelte del neo-Presidente USA. Dalla riabilitazione di Putin alla deportazione di migranti americani e dei palestinesi da Gaza, alla sottovalutazione di potenze non democratiche come la stessa Russia, l’Iran e la Cina, il leader dell’ultra-destra mondiale sembra guidato da un cieco delirio di odio, e traballa l’ipotesi di una precisa idea e visione del mondo. Non sono da meno le sue scelte anti-LGBTIAQ+: la cancellazione del terzo genere, la raffica di revisioni che configurano una sorta di biopolitica reazionaria, il divieto di accesso all’esercito per le persone trans, i tagli ad USAID, lo stop alle cure per le giovani persone gender non conforming, la guerra alle politiche DEI, il banning alle donne trans dallo sport, il revisionsimo anti-scientifico su documenti accademici di ricerca, il blocco alle sovvenzioni per le cure anti-hiv nel mondo. Fino all’ultimo, simbolico atto di odio, vergato il 13 febbraio 2025 con il preciso intento di lacerare una comunità e il suo spirito unitario: la cancellazione delle persone trans dallo Stonewall National Monument del Greenwich a Manhattan (NYC).
Ma può la comunità LGBTIAQ+ essere divisa dalla tecnica da mercante imperialista messa in campo da Donald Trump? Sono già molte le manifestazioni di protesta. Ora una lettera firmata da decine di storici e studiosi spiega perché la decisione (come del resto quasi tutte le altre) del presidente americano, di eliminare le lettere T e Q dal monumento di Stonewall sia basata su evidenze anti-storiche che ne mettono in discussione la solidità politica, fino alla soglia del ridicolo. Negare la centralità della questione di genere dalla storia del movimento di liberazione delle persone lesbiche, gay, bi, trans, intersex, asessuali e queer equivale a un falso storico. Volendo rispondere con una provocazione, è come se dagli ultimi mesi del 1945 cancellassimo gli Americani e decidessimo di riscrivere la storia, millantando d’ora in poi che soltanto Gran Bretagna e Russia liberarono l’Europa e il mondo dall’ascesa del nazifascismo italo-tedesco.
Storicamente, la rivolta di Stonewall del 1969 vide protagonisti giovani LGBTQ+ che sfidavano gli stereotipi su orientamento sessuale e genere. Alcun* si definivano “drag queen” o “transessuali”, e figure come Marsha P. Johnson e Sylvia Rivera furono centrali. Ignorare le persone trans, affermano gli studiosi, falsifica i fatti storici: la lotta non riguardò solo l’orientamento sessuale, ma anche la libera espressione dell’identità di genere. Rimuovere i riferimenti trans significa dunque distorcere la memoria e la verità storica.
Di seguito la lettera integrale, con le firme raccolte alle ore 5 pm (EST) del 19 Febbraio 2025
Lettera sulle modifiche apportate dal National Park Service alle pagine web del National Stonewall Monument
Il 13 febbraio 2025, il National Park Service, in seguito a un ordine esecutivo emesso dall’amministrazione Trump il 20 gennaio 2025, “per riconoscere [solo] due sessi, maschile e femminile [che] non sono modificabili”, ha rimosso i riferimenti alle persone transgender dalle pagine web del National Stonewall Monument a Manhattan. Successivamente, sono state rimosse anche la parola “queer” e la lettera “Q”. In quanto studiosi che studiano la storia e la politica della sessualità e del genere, scriviamo per testimoniare che questi cambiamenti non sono supportati dalla documentazione storica relativa agli eventi commemorati dal monumento.
Il National Stonewall Monument commemora un evento importante nella storia dell’attivismo LGBTQ+. Durante un conflitto di sei giorni iniziato in una taverna di New York City chiamata Stonewall Inn nell’estate del 1969, comunemente noto come le rivolte di Stonewall, i newyorkesi LGBTQ+ hanno resistito alle molestie e ai maltrattamenti sistematici da parte della polizia in una serie di scontri che sono continuati nel Greenwich Village per diversi giorni. I clienti dello Stonewall Inn e i partecipanti alla rivolta successiva erano prevalentemente giovani newyorkesi che sfidavano le norme sessuali e di genere dominanti. Alcuni si consideravano gay, lesbiche o queer, e alcuni vivevano parte o tutto il tempo come membri di un sesso diverso da quello assegnato loro alla nascita. Alcuni si definivano “drag queen” e “crossdresser”, altri “travestiti” o “transessuali”, e altri ancora usavano termini ambigui che potevano descrivere sia la sessualità che la variazione nell’espressione di genere. I rivoltosi dello Stonewall variavano per background di classe, identità razziale ed etnica e parole che usavano per descrivere se stessi. Questa gamma e complessità di variazione nell’espressione di genere e nella sessualità erano comuni nei movimenti di liberazione gay, femminista lesbica e trans del periodo, che erano caratterizzati (come tutti i movimenti sociali) da alcuni disaccordi e dibattiti sul linguaggio e da visioni condivise di liberazione. La diversità sia nella sessualità sia nell’espressione di genere, forme di variazione umana spesso inestricabilmente correlate tra loro, sono parti empiricamente verificabili della documentazione storica, anche se i termini usati dalle diverse società e i significati particolari di quei termini cambiano nel tempo. Né “transgender” né “queer” erano comunemente usati come termini di identità nel 1969, ma “travestito”, “transessuale” e altri termini lo erano, anche dalle persone allo Stonewall Inn e dalle proteste che seguirono. Figure degne di nota includono Marsha P. Johnson e Sylvia Rivera, attiviste influenti a cui era stato assegnato il genere maschile alla nascita ma che vissero per periodi della loro vita adulta come donne.
I partecipanti alle rivolte di Stonewall hanno contestato sia i maltrattamenti basati sui tipi di partner sessuali che cercavano sia i maltrattamenti basati sul modo in cui rappresentavano il genere nella vita di tutti i giorni. Gli sforzi per affrontare entrambe le forme di oppressione facevano parte delle rivolte del 1969 e della lotta per i diritti civili che ne seguì. Ogni resoconto accurato delle rivolte di Stonewall e della successiva lotta per i diritti civili LGBTQ+ deve riconoscere l’intera gamma di persone che si unirono alla battaglia e l’intera portata dell’oppressione che affrontarono. Le azioni del National Park Service riducono questi eventi a una storia che riguarda solo l’orientamento sessuale, ma questa interpretazione non ha fondamento nei fatti storici e distorce l’eredità di questo importante evento nella storia americana.
FIRME alle ore 5 pm (US EAST) del 19 Febbraio 2025:
Gabriel N. Rosenberg, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and History, Duke University
Emily Hobson, Associate Professor of History and of Gender, Race, and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark
Marc Stein, Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History, San Francisco State University
Margot Canaday, Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University
Julio Capó, Jr., Associate Professor of History and Public Humanities, Florida International University
Susan Stryker, Distinguished Visitor, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, and Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona
John D’Emilio, Emeritus Professor of History and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Joanne Meyerowitz, Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and Professor of American Studies, Yale University
Jennifer Nash, Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Estelle B. Freedman, Robinson Professor in U.S. History, Emerit, Stanford University
Jennifer Brier, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and History, University of Illinois Chicago
David K. Johnson, Professor of History, University of South Florida
Kwame Holmes, Scholar in Residence, Human Rights Program, Bard College
George Chauncey, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
Beans Velocci, Assistant Professor in History and Sociology of Science and Core Faculty in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Andrea Friedman, Emeritx, History and WGSS, Washington University in St Louis
C. Riley Snorton, Mary R. Morton Professor of English, Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity, and Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Chicago
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Associate Professor of History, African and African American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Salonee Bhaman, Faculty Fellow, NYU
Anthony Petro, Associate Professor of Religion and WGSS, Boston University
Amanda Littauer, Associate Professor of History and in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Northern Illinois University
Christina Hanhardt, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Wendy Rouse, Professor, San Jose State University
Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies and History, University of Southern California
Nicholas L. Syrett, Associate Dean and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas
Whitney Cox, Assistant Teaching Professor in World Religions, Rowan University
Greta LaFleur, Associate Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Stephen Vider, Associate Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College
Roderick A. Ferguson, William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies, Yale University
Jason Ruiz, Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Myra Billund-Phibbs, PhD student, History, University of Minnesota
Jake Newsome, Ph.D., Director, The Pink Triangle Legacies Project
Leisa D. Meyer, Professor, American Studies Program, GSWS Program, and History Department, The College of William & Mary
Lisa Duggan, Professor of American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
John F. Anderies, Director, John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives and Library, William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia
Laurie Marhoefer, Professor of History, University of Washington
Lisa Arellano, Associate Director of Research, The Mills Institute at Northeastern University and Co-editor of Queer Pasts
Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University
Rachel Hope Cleves, Professor of History, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Emory Ogaard, Independent Scholar of Trans* History, Gender and Sexuality
La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Channing Gerard Joseph, Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University
Grace Lavery, Associate Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley, and Former General Editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly
Rebecca Davis, Miller Family Endowed Early Career Professor of History, University of Delaware
Judith M. Bennett, Hardy Professor Emerita of History, UNC-Chapel Hill and Hubbard Professor Emerita of History, University of Southern California
Zavier Nunn, Mellon Fellow, Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center of the Humanities, Columbia University
Dan Royles, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University
Jack Halberstam, David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University
Molly Tambor, Associate Professor of History, Long Island University Post
Marie-Amélie George, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
Nick Ota-Wang, MA, Independent Historian & Scholar of LGBTQ US History, Board Member – LGBTQ+ History Association
Eric Gonzaba, Assistant Professor of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Katelyn Spencer, History Ph.D. Candidate, Louisiana State University
Paul Renfro, Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Florida State University
Jennifer Dominique Jones, Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
John Howard, Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London
Gayle Rubin, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Regina Kunzel, Larned Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Aaron Lecklider, Professor of American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Adrienne D. Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
G. Samantha Rosenthal, Associate Professor of History, Roanoke College
Clayton Howard, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University
William Kuby, UC Foundation Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Honors College, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Kevin P. Murphy, Northrop Professor and Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Keara Sebold, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Boston University
Felicia Kornbluh, Professor of History, Director, Jewish Studies, University of Vermont
Charlie Wang, PhD student, Department of History, Cornell University
April R. Haynes, Professor and Director of Inclusive Excellence, Department of History, UW-Madison
Emily Owens, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Kirstin Ringelberg, Professor of Art History and WGSS-affiliated faculty member, Department of History & Geography, Elon University
Alex Melody Burnett, PhD candidate in History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Board Member of the LGBTQ+ History Association
Stathis G. Yeros, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, University of New Mexico
Susan S. Lanser, Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, English, and Women and Gender Studies, Brandeis University
Emily Skidmore, Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Anne M. Valk, Professor of History, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Katie Batza, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas
Natalie L. Kimball, Associate Professor of History, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Lauren Gutterman, Associate Professor, Departments of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Don Romesburg, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Sonoma State University
David A. Reichard, Professor Emeritus of History and Legal Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay
Daniel Rivers, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Rebecca Wanzo, Chair and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Henry E. Chen, PhD candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan
Samuel Wood, PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Myrl Beam, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Macalester College
Leila J. Rupp, Interim Anne and Michael Towbes Graduate Dean, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Briand (Brinni) Gentry, PhD candidate in Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan
Hooper Schultz, PhD Candidate in History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Associate Professor of American Culture and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Pete Sigal, Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Donald W. McLeod, FRHistS, Librarian Emeritus, University of Toronto Libraries
Chelsea Del Rio, Associate Professor of History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Emily Diamond, PhD Candidate in Social Psychology, University of Michigan
Heart Gardener, MSW Candidate, Columbia University
Ben Miller, Writer & Historian; Board, Schwules Museum Berlin
M. Candace Christensen, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work
Hannah Leffingwell, Part-time faculty at The New School and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Brooke Merritt, Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso
Max Osborn, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Villanova University
Shayda Kafai, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
Lexi Almy, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Oklahoma State University
Emily Lenning, Professor of Criminal Justice, Fayetteville State University
Ying-Chao Kao, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Rachael Barrett, PhD student in History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Meredith G. F. Worthen, Professor of Sociology, University of Oklahoma
Melinda Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oklahoma
C. McGhee, PhD Candidate, Psychology and Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Wells Lucas Santo, PhD Candidate, Trans Technologies, University of Michigan
Katherine Lorenz, Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, California State University-Northridge
Margaret McFadden, Professor Emerita, Women’s Studies, Appalachian State University
Matt Brim, Professor of Queer Studies, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City University of New York
Gaby Kubi, PhD Candidate, Education & Psychology, University of Michigan
Batool Makki, MIRS Candidate, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan
Jeremiah Jurkiewicz, Assistant Director of Social Justice, LGBTQ Resource Center, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Erin Mayo-Adam, Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, CUNY
Anick S. Rolland, Associate Registrar, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jan Oosting, Associate Professor of Nursing, The City University of New York
Frank Plunkett, Associate Professor, Legal Studies, Pierce College
Erin O’Callaghan, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University
Whitney Strub, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark
Brume Dezembro Iazzetti, Public Historian & PhD student in Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Jake Nill, Associate Director, LGBTQ+ Student Center at the CUNY City College of New York
Michael Ivany, Admissions Advisor, CUNY
Jama Shelton, Associate Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College
Dan Erdman, senior video archivist, Media Burn Archive
Lucas Hilderbrand, Chair and Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine
Greg Youmans, Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, Western Washington University
Jamey Jesperson, PhD Candidate & Vanier Scholar, University of Victoria
Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW, Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work
day parker, Phd Student, Marsal School, University of Michigan
Carla Silva, PhD Candidate in Social Welfare, City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center
Ilyssa Silfen, Higher Education Assistant, College of Staten Island
David A Gerstner, Ph.D., CUNY
Olivia Fleming, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Transylvania University
Lisa Brundage, Director of Academic Affairs, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY
Ben Strassfeld, PhD, Independent scholar
Keira Mac Neill, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Ph.D. Student
Mireille Miller-Young, Associate Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Maria Laura Martinelli, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Elizabeth Reis, Distinguished Lecturer, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY
Xavier Guadalupe-Díaz, Professor, Framingham State University
Alexis Kuerbis, Professor, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY
Hannah Roussel, PhD, University of Michigan
Kaitlin P. Ward, PhD, LCSW, Research Affiliate, University of Michigan
Jane Ward, Professor and Chair, Feminist Studies, UCSB
Michael P. Dentato, PhD, Associate Dean for Research & Professor, School of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago
Nadine Hubbs, Professor, University of Michigan
Finley Freibert, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University
Sam Harrell, Assistant Professor, Seattle University Department of Social Work
Edward Alessi, Professor, Rutgers University
Dr. Brian J Frederick, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, SUNY Empire State University
Brian L. Kelly, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work
Brayden A. Misiolek, Co-founder & Research Director, Transcend the Binary
Shane Butler, Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
Nguyen Tan Hoang, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, San Diego
Stephanie Clare, University of Washington, Seattle, Associate Professor
Leah DeVun, Professor of History, Rutgers University
Jonathan Ned Katz, Founder, OutHistory.org, Independent Scholar
Yaari Felber-Seligman, PhD, assistant professor, City College of New York & co-chair LGBTQ+ History Association
Jay Watkins, PhD, teaching professor & co-chair LGBTQ+ History Association
Kate Redburn, Academic Fellow and Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School
Paul R. Deslandes, Professor of History, University of Vermont
Jennifer Holland, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma
Blake Gutt, Assistant Professor of French, University of Utah
Haleigh Marcello, History Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Jaden Janak, Assistant Professor of History, St. Olaf College
Mir Yarfitz, Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wake Forest University
Catherine Gudis, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
Jennifer Moorman, Assistant Professor, Fordham University
Joe Wilson, Director, Lei Pua ʻAla Queer Histories of Hawaiʻi project
Rosanne Sia, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Sarah Ernst, Ph.D. Candidate, USC Van Hunnick History Department
Karen Miller, History Professor, LaGuardia Community College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Emanuela Bianchi, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Heather Panter, Senior Lecturer in Policing Studies, Liverpool John Moores University (UK)
Soheil Asefi, PhD candidate in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Wendy Mallette, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oklahoma
Samuel Rutherford, Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow
Kara A. Peruccio, Assistant Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maine
Keona Katrice Ervin, Associate Professor and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College
Corey D Clawson, PhD Student in American Studies & Administrative Coordinator for the Global Urban Studies Joint PhD Program in Urban Systems, Rutgers University—Newark
Nic John Ramos, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Drexel University
Bethany Moreton, Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Jennifer Evans, Professor of History, Carleton University
Peter Boag, Professor, Washington Statesman University
Hugh Ryan, Independent Scholar
Julia Smoot, Graduate Student, Departments of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies
Nic John Ramos, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Drexel University
Monica L. Mercado, Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University
Alix Genter, Independent scholar of LGBTQ+ history
Doris A. Santoro, Professor, Bowdoin College
Deirdre Shires, Associate Professor, Michigan State University School of Social Work
Simon Fisher, Assistant Professor of United States History, Dalhousie University (Canada)
Theodore Greene, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Bowdoin College
Matt Houlbrook, Professor of Cultural History, University of Birmingham, UK
Brandon Craig, PhD Candidate, Northeastern University School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Elspeth Brown, Professor, University of Toronto
Colin R. Johnson, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and American Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Patricio Simonetto, Lecturer in Gender and Social Policy, University of Leeds
Cassandra Grondin, Lecturer of Queer, Race, and Women’s History., N/A
Ervin Malakaj, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of British Columbia
Steven Maynard, Associate Professor, Queen’s University
Beth Bailey, Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of History, University of Kansas
Max Gaida, PhD Candidate, University of Cologne
Jill Suzanne Smith, Associate Professor and Chair of German, Bowdoin College
Alison Lefkovitz, Associate Professor, Rutgers-Newark/NJIT
Samia W Cohen, Adjunct Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College and Brown University
Tiffany N. Florvil, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Chris Aino Pihlak, Doctoral Student in History, University of Toronto
Avery J McGraw, PhD student, History, University of Connecticut
Kristina Gupta, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University
Tamar W. Carroll, Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Hubble, Director, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Montana
Anna Hájková, Reader in modern European continental history, Warwick University
Craig Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Manchester Metropolitan University
Matthew Kateb Goldman, PhD Candidate, Brown University
Shay Ryan Olmstead, Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rebecca M. Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Brenna Helm, PhD Candidate, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
Brodie J. Lobb, Clinical Therapist, Queering The Pathways, Southfield Mental Health Associates
Valerio Baćak, Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Newark
Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History, University of Iowa
Noah Barth, Public Historian, Experience Developer, Science Museum of Minnesota
Dr. Lisa Todd, Professor of Modern European History, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Keara A Werth, PhD Student, Michigan State University
Keara A Werth, PhD Student, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
Kate Davison, Lecturer in the History of Sexuality, University of Edinburgh
Allison Walker, Director of Community Partnerships and Experiential Learning, Wake Forest University
Julia Friedman, MA, independent scholar
Susanne M. Klausen, Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
Tamar W. Carroll, Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
Gail Ehrlich, Independent Researcher
Judith Casselberry, Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Bowdoin College
Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Wake Forest University
Danielle M. DeMuth, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Grand Valley State University
April Carrillo, Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
Peter Edelberg, Teaching Associate Professor, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Tyler Albertario, Independent Scholar of LGBTQ+ History
Devin McGeehan Muchmore, Managing Reference Archivist, GLBT Historical Society
Isabel Machado, Lecturer, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia
Alicia C. Decker, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and History, Penn State
Oliver Haimson, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information
Roberto Ordenana, Executive Director, GLBT Historical Society
Scott Burnett, Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
Simone M. Caron, Professor of History, Wake Forest University
Anna Danziger Halperin, Director, Center for Women’s History, The New York Historical
Cecilia Márquez, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
Frances S. Hasso, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, Duke University
Sharon Ullman, Professor Emerita of History, Bryn Mawr College
Cris Culton, PhD Candidate, History, Duke University
Tania Rispoli, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
James Chappel, Associate Professor of History, Duke University
Jake La Fronz, PhD Student, Temple University
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University
Thomas Foster, Professor of History, Howard University
Monena Hall, Administrative Support Manager, Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University
Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Associate Professor of Education, Winston-Salem State University
Justin Bengry, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
Sumathi Ramaswamy, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History, Duke University
Kelly Bennett, Faculty Coordinator, African American Studies, African Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
Lisa Levenstein, Professor of History and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, UNC Greensboro
Mo Moulton, Professor of Modern British & Irish History, University of Birmingham (UK)
La Shonda Mims, History Faculty at University of Birmingham, UK
Robert Self, Professor of History, Brown University
John Jeffries Martin, Professor of History, Duke University
Tiffany Judy, Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Wake Forest University
Anne Parsons, Associate Professor, UNC Greensboro
Randolph W. Baxter, Adjunct Professor of American Studies, CSU-Fullerton
Eshe Sherley, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Wake Forest University
Kelly Wooten, Librarian, Duke University
Justina Licata, Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University East
Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Laura Micham, Director, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture and Curator, Gender and Sexuality History Collections, Duke University
Annalise Elizabeth Glauz-Todrank, Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religions, Wake Forest University
Evan Hepler-Smith, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
Hannah Conway, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
Lynn Comella, Professor and Chair, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Julian Carter, Associate Professor of Critical Studies, California College of the Arts
Jennifer Mittelstadt, Professor of History, Rutgers University
Nora Kassner, Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University
Alessio Ponzio, Visiting Professor of Modern European History, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dr. Mellissa Wright, Assistant Professor of Sociology
William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History emeritus, Duke University, Duke University
Dane Eissler, Adjunct, Rowan University & Temple University; PhD Student, Transart Institute/LJMU (UK)
Chiara Beccalossi, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary European History, University of Lincoln, UK
Annette Timm, Professor of History, University of Calgary
Alona Whitebird Medina, PhD Student, Duke University, Department of History
Edward Kazarian, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Rowan University
Caroline T. Schroeder, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and of Data Scholarship, University of Oklahoma
Justin Leroy, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
Honor Sachs, Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder
Katie Sutton, Associate Professor, Gender and German Studies, Australian National University
Jill Wood, PhD, Teaching Professor, Dept. of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University
Gabeba Baderoon, Associate Professor, Penn State University
Vasant Kaiwar, Research Lecturing Fellow, Duke University
Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Lecturer, University of Stirling
Rebecca Pattillo, Assistant University Archivist, Duke University
Samuel Clowes Huneke, Associate Professor of History, George Mason University
David Churchill, Professor, University of Manitoba
Erin Binkley, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University
Katharine Scott, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wake Forest University
Tracy Rutler, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and French and Francophone Studies, Penn State University
Joseph Fischel, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Heike Bauer, Professor of Modern Literature & Cultural History, Birkbeck, University of London
Colette Harley, Graduate Student, University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science
Breonte Guy, Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences, Winston-Salem State University
Alexander Borsa, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Benjamin Bernard, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia
Celia Roberts, Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
Laura Briggs, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ina Linge, Senior Lecturer in German, University of Exeter
Graham Willett, Dr, University of Melbourne
Mordecai Jackson, Associates; Music Production, Los Angeles Film School
Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Family Distinguished Professor, Duke University
Jacquelyn Hall, Spruill Professor of History, Emerita, UNC-Chapel Hill
Che Gossett, Associate Director, Center for Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington
Mary Lou Rasmussen, Professor, Australian National University
Miguel Wilson, PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jamie-Lukas Campbell, PhD Candidate, The Queen’s University Belfast
Lindsay Zafir, Distinguished Lecturer and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, The City College of New York
Erin Farrell Rosenberg, Adjunct Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor, Department of History, New York University
George Aumoithe, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Joseph Jay Sosa. Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College
Jackie Stacey, Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, The University of Manchester
Susan Lee Johnson, Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Courtney E. Thompson, Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
Wesley Hogan, Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute and History, Duke University
Emmanuel David, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Director, LGBT Studies Certificate Program, University of Colorado Boulder
David Church, Ph.D., Adjunct Instructor, Seattle University
Daniela Valdes, PhD candidate, Rutgers University
