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Early U.S. Queer History. We’Wha , Zuni. Gay Vatos in Love, by Ozomatli. VATO: spanish word for “dude” or “man” Nali and Mando walk into the park, looking for love in the protection of the dark Clyde and cobra assemble in the night
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Early U.S. Queer History We’Wha, Zuni
Gay Vatos in Love, by Ozomatli • VATO: spanish word for “dude” or “man” • Nali and Mando walk into the park, looking for love in the protection of the dark • Clyde and cobra assemble in the night • The more I hear morrissey the more I feel all right • Gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love • Harvey and …. , they’re girlfriends in the car • Fronting on crenshaw, loving who they are • … amor is amor, but angiezapata is lying on the dance floor • Gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love • If the world can understand, stand by your man • If the world can understand, stand by your man • Gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love, gay vatos in love…. • If the world can understand, stand by your man • Gay vatos in love….if the world can understand, stand by your man • Who was Angie Zapata? At the age of 18, angiezapata, a transgender teenager, was beaten to death in Greeley, Colorado. First case in the nation to get a conviction for a hate crime involving a transgender victim.
Books An American Obsession: Science, Medicine and Homosexuality in Modern Society, by Jennifer Terry Published, March 2011 Published May, 2011
Slavery & Religious Beliefs • Proponents of slavery did not consider slavery contradictory to Christian theology. Rather, they justified the practice by citing verses in the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, including Genesis 9:25-27, in which Noah’s grandson Canaan is condemned to slavery: “Cursed by Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.” • Bronksi writes, “the biblical justifications for slavery, not unlike the biblical justifications for the condemnation of same-sex sexual activity, were used to both enforce draconian Laws and justify extraordinarily harsh punishments” (p. 23)
Indigenous Queer History Queer Indigenous Studies, published March 2011 Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality The Zuni Man-Woman, by Will Roscoe
Anarchism, Socialism, and Queer History Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality In the United States, 1895-1917, by Terence Kissack
George Chauncey, Gay New York Driving directions from Greenwich Village to Harlem
Ma Rainey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjRn7_cC8N4 Ma Rainey: Prove It On Me Blues" Went out last night, had a great big fight Everything seemed to go on wrong I looked up, to my surprise The gal I was with was gone. Where she went, I don’t know I mean to follow everywhere she goes; Folks say I’m crooked. I didn’t know where she took it I want the whole world to know. They say I do it, ain’t nobody caught me Sure got to prove it on me; Went out last night with a crowd of my friends, They must’ve been women, ‘cause I don’t like no men. It’s true I wear a collar and a tie, Makes the wind blow all the while Ma Rainey
“Prove it on Me Blues,” continued Don’t you say I do it, ain’t nobody caught me You sure got to prove it on me. Say I do it, ain’t nobody caught me Sure got to prove it on me. I went out last night with a crowd of my friends, It must’ve been women, ‘cause I don’t like no men. Wear my clothes just like a fan Talk to the gals just like any old man Cause they say I do it, ain’t nobody caught me Sure got to prove it on me. Advertisement for the song. Notice the woman in a suit.