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Dr. Jim Downs
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Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; Editor of Civil War History; Partenr at History Studio.
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Thanks for posting this!
August 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Thank you!!!!
August 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Congrats
August 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Excellent—me too, let me know what they say
July 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Thanks for teaching my book on Jan 6 in your course @ugapress.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Out of the Bathhouse and Into the Bookstore
How the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop created a new space for gay New Yorkers.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Uncovering a Queer Renaissance, Fifty Years Later | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jim Downs commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with a recovery of LGBT figures of the past.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Before Stonewall, There Was a Bookstore
Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Writing Gay History
Though sometimes forgotten, the history of gay liberation was written with the history of African Americans in mind.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The Gay Marriages of a Nineteenth-Century Prison Ship
What seemed to enrage a former inmate most was the mutual consent of the men he lived with.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM