Queer Characters Feature in ‘Fat Ham’ and ‘Mercury;’ ‘The People’s Joker’ is a Trans Coming of Age Story
The Baron Who Was Mars Personified Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken October 6, 2022 0If grammar school coverage of the Revolutionary War was dull to you, clearly no one mentioned Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August...
Lesbians and the Third Reich Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken September 8, 2022 0Vergessen ermöglicht Wiederholung! Forgetting enables repetition! In a number of ways, Germany has come to terms with its Nazi...
He Has Gone Where No One Has Gone Before: George Takei (April 20, 1937–) Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken August 4, 2022 0No one could have predicted the lives (and yes, I mean lives — this man has crammed more into one...
That New Bridge … You Wanna Name It for a Queer? Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken July 21, 2022 0It’s 1951 and the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) authorizes the construction of a two-mile suspension bridge to connect Gloucester...
Why Stonewall? Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken June 16, 2022 0“You’ve been treating us like shit all these years? Uh uh. Now it’s our turn! … [Stonewall] was one of...
How the Supremes Have F***ed Up Pride 2022 Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken June 2, 2022 0It’s June! The month we celebrate queer rights, when the air gets heated and the blood does too. But...
Carolyn Mobley: How a Little Black Girl Grew into a Large Presence Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken May 5, 2022 0This is the story of a little Black girl born in the segregated South who becomes a large presence in...
The Account of Zheng He, Eunuch Admiral Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken April 21, 2022 0Does testosterone make the man? Certainly not in the case of Ma He, a ten-year-old Hui (Chinese Muslim) boy who...
Cha-U-Kao, La Clowness Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken March 17, 2022 0Henri Toulouse-Latrec found her fascinating, enigmatic and worthy of multiple renderings. Bourgeoise fin de siècle Paris found her “kind” shocking,...
Moll Cutpurse: ‘Bawd, Bully, Pick-purse, Receiver, Forger, Fortune Teller’ Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken February 17, 2022 0When you hear the term “militant bisexual woman,” a certain image may come to mind. That image is probably not...
Simon Nkoli, Queer South African Freedom Fighter Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken January 20, 2022 0Today, I celebrate South Africa’s epoch-making freedom fighter Simon Tseko Nkoli (1957–1998), who triumphed in struggles for queer rights, HIV/AIDS...