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Hosted by Kris with a K · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 108 episodes
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Every week, Kris Fitzgerald digs into the archives of LGBTQ+ history to uncover the moments, people, and movements that shaped queer life and culture. From landmark legal victories to unsung heroes, from underground parties to mass protests - This Week in Queer History celebrates the agency, resilience, and brilliance of queer communities across time. History isn't just what happened. It's who we are. Watch the video versions on YouTube: youtube.com/@thisweekinqueerhistory Join our community: thisweekinqueerhistory.circle.so
Kris with a K hosts This Week in Queer History, a history show with 108 episodes published.
During WWII, Coast Guard Beach Patrols walked the shores of Cape Cod watching for German U-boats. Their military perimeter faced outward, scanning the Atlantic. What nobody planned for: that same presence inadvertently c
Fire Island. Say those two words and most people picture circuit parties and share houses. But the real story of this thirty-two-mile barrier island is so much bigger than the parties. In this episode, we explore how Che
In 1986, over 3,400 queer athletes marched into Kezar Stadium while the AIDS crisis raged and the government looked away. Tom Waddell — doctor, Olympian, and man already diagnosed with AIDS — threw a javelin and won gold
In this episode, we meet Dr. James Miranda Steuart Barry, a brilliant British Army surgeon who rose to the second-highest medical rank in the Empire, performed one of the first successful Caesarean sections where both mo
Three years before Stonewall, a trans woman in San Francisco's Tenderloin threw a cup of coffee in a police officer's face. That moment ignited the Compton's Cafeteria Uprising, one of the earliest acts of collective que
On July 2, 1986, opponents of New Zealand's Homosexual Law Reform Bill moved to kill it entirely. The closure motion failed by one vote - 41 in favor of killing the bill, 42 against. One MP held strong. One week later, o
What if America's most patriotic song was a queer love story? On July 4, 1895, Katharine Lee Bates published a poem called "America" in a weekly newspaper. We know it today as "America the Beautiful." And the woman who w
On June 25, 1972, a schoolteacher from Queens named Jeanne Manford grabbed a piece of orange posterboard, wrote in marker that parents of gay children should unite in support of their kids, and stepped into the Christoph
At 5:01 PM on June 16, 2008, the doors of San Francisco City Hall swung open and two women walked in. Del Martin was 87 years old. Phyllis Lyon was 84. They had been together for fifty-six years. And they were about to b
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court told sixteen states they couldn't ban love anymore. When Richard and Mildred Loving won their case against Virginia, they didn't just win the right to stay married - they handed us a l
In June 1991, three thousand LGBTQ+ people wore red shirts to Walt Disney World. No sponsors. No corporate blessing. No permission. Just community - coordinated through word of mouth, built on trust, and showing up at th
On May 30, 1986, one of America's most influential fashion designers died at forty-six years old. His company said it was encephalitis. The newspapers printed it. And an entire industry exhaled - because nobody had to sa
What if a newspaper column could teach America that queer people deserve happy endings? On May 24, 1976, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City arrived in the San Francisco Chronicle - a serialized story about a boarding h
On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization endorsed the ICD-10 and quietly removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. It was, in the words of the activists who had fought for it, a seismic moment - the
On May 6, 1933, members of the German Student Union marched to the Institute of Sexual Research in Berlin - with a brass band. Like a parade. They stormed the building, seized tens of thousands of volumes, grabbed patien
On April 30, 1997, Ellen DeGeneres leaned into an airport PA microphone and said three words to 42 million people watching at home. In this episode, we go back to that night - the bomb threats, the pulled advertisers, th
What happens when the most famous man in England is told his love is a crime? In 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in a London courtroom and called love between men "beautiful" and "noble," refusing to apologize, recant, or run. T
In 1979, a group of queer activists in San Francisco put on nun habits as an Easter joke. Within a few years, they were saving lives. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence started as camp and irreverence, but when the AIDS
Ryan White never asked to be the face of AIDS in America. He was a teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion used to treat his hemophilia. He was thirteen years old. And when his schoo
In 1996, a new class of HIV drugs changed everything. The protease inhibitors, combined with existing antiretroviral treatments, turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable chronic condition for people who could
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