Michael Bedwell's Page

The history of LGBT people has included conscious attempts to erase that history; either by society at large or religious, state or academic thugs, or LGBTs themselves who've wanted to "protect" themselves posthumously, e.g., Walt Whitman's coded/altered diaries, or, even more often, the person's heirs who, when they have not succeeded in destroying records entirely, have sometimes legally blocked anyone from publishing them.

So, the passage in California of a law requiring that LGBT…

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