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Queer Disability Through History: The Queer and Disabled Movements Through Their Personalities

Queer Disability Through History: The Queer and Disabled Movements Through Their Personalities

Holder, Daisy

Hardcover

General SociologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1399050575
ISBN13: 9781399050579
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: Dec 19 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.14
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Explores the intersecting histories of the Disabled and LGBTQ+ movements, highlighting shared struggles and landmark figures.

Persecuted, outlawed, imprisoned, shunned. You might think this refers only to the LGBTQ+ community, but their experience is remarkably closely aligned to the experience of the Disabled community.

This book examines the histories of these two movements are they ran alongside each other often intersecting. Both the Disabled and the LGBTQ+ movements have rich and intriguing pasts that date back beyond recorded history. As Holder explores the journey of these movements the journey highlights their shared history through the stories of the people who brought both into modern consciousness. They represent vital landmarks in the little-explored intersections between the two groups' past and present.

Turn-of-the-century Mexican bisexual painter, Frida Kahlo, was Disabled by both polio and injury; Michelangelo turned his artistic talents toward homoerotic poetry to manage his arthritis. The iconic Marsha P Johnson lived with and cared for those with AIDs, and Dr Fryer, the psychiatrist with depression, has been credited with planting the seed that led to the removal of homosexuality from the American diagnostic manual of mental disorders. While many of these events seem small, they shape our Queer and Disability cultures and shared history, to show just how far we've come and how far we still have to go.

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