Dave White

When it comes to LGBT civil rights, the popular narrative often promotes the notion that, in the decades before Stonewall, queer people existed only in the shadows, communicating in subtle glances and hushed tones about a “love that dare not speak its name.” Quite simply, until there was something, there was nothing. In reality, however, openly gay men and lesbians have been active members of societies for well over a century, though frequently as persona non grata whose contributions and stories have been assimilated into larger histories or forgotten altogether. In Homintern, British poet and scholar Gregory Woods has gathered […]