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Police and State Response to Cruising
65% of the 26 mass arrests are confirmed to involve undercover operations. It’s certainly like...
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The Weight of Expectation
Last we...
The emergence of the term ‘cruising’ in reference to anonymous gay sex in public and semi-public locations such as parks and public restrooms rose to prominence in the early 1960s (Dunbar, 2020). That isn’t to say cruising wasn’t happening...
This month I published ‘What Homosexual Mass Arrests at One Michigan Rest Stop Teach Us,’ a small snippet of my larger body of research on mass cruising arrests in the state of Michigan. This article focuses on a rest stop in my hometown du...
A glimpse pf the underground lesbian scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and WW2's impact
Tucked away in an alley in Paris’s bohemian, artsy neighborhood of Montmartre during the 1920s and 1930s was Le Monocle, a bustling lesbian nightc...
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Writing & researching about queer history, its lasting impacts, and parallels to the modern day♡
Gemma Ortwerth is an author, artist, and activist writing on queer life, disability, love, and survival. Her work blends poetic reflection with social critique, exploring grief and joy, chosen family, justice, and art as survival.
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