FROM BOSTON MARRIAGES TO THE LAVENDER MENACE: QUEER WOMEN AND THE FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE

Date: 

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Zoom meeting

If we learned about the battle for women’s suffrage in history class, we likely didn’t learn that the fight went well beyond the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. And we definitely didn’t learn that many of the people fighting for voting rights were different from their peers in ways that we might now think of as queer. But LGBTQ+ history IS American history. Join us as we meet some of the folks who were key to winning and protecting women’s suffrage from the 19th century through the Civil Rights Era, who were gender variant or in same-sex relationships. As we meet them, we’ll talk about how we know what we know (or don’t) about their private lives and whether it matters.

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