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tarastarr1:

thecoggs:

So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

This is really great??

• Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke
• Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate
• Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk

• Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich
• Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow
• Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate

• Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate
• Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins
• Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe
• Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker
• Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi
• Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez
• Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris

• Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking
• Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt
• Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson
• Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim
• Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate
• Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein
• Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes
• Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn
• Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza
• Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk
• Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer

• Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson
• Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley
• Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.
• Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV
• Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

• Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega
• Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos
• Chapter 32: Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage by Leila J. Rupp

sonnetscrewdriver:

aliceinpunderland:

marjchaos:

themyskira:

A while ago, for fun, I started doing some reading on some of the stranger naming choices made by the Puritans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. (Yes, for fun. I am a dork.) Here are a few of my favourites:

A Sussex jury roll from the 1600s includes the names Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Fly-Fornication Richardson, Search-The-Scriptures Moreton, The-Peace-Of-God Knight, Stand-Fast-On-High Stringer, The-Gift-of-God Stringer, and Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith White, Obediencia Cruttenden, Called Lower, Hope-For Bending, More-Fruit Flower and Meek Brewer. Some other wonderful Sussex names around this time include Safely-on-High Snat, Mortifie Hicks and the marvellously-named Humiliation Scratcher. And let’s not forget Be-Stedfast Elyarde, Faint-not Dighurst, Hew-Agag-in-pieces Robinson, Swear-not-at-all Ireton and Obadiah-bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-in-irons Needham.

Here’s another good naming method: There was a tradition among some Puritan villagers of opening the Bible and selecting the first name their eyes landed upon, which led to some interesting christenings. One poor child was landed with the name Ramoth-Gilead as a result of this method, reportedly leading a rather bemused parson to ask, “Boy or girl, eh?” There’s some evidence that certain parents, whose reading was perhaps not the best, would simply open the Bible and choose a word at random - hence the existence in Connecticut of Maybe Barnes and a girl by the rather unfortunate name of Notwithstanding Griswold. One child in England was christened Sirs, the parents insisting that it was a Scripture name and citing as proof the passage “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Another Puritan named his dog Moreover after the Gospel passage “Moreover the dog came and licked his sores.”

Yet another story tells of a priest who was befuddled when a woman informed him that her child was to be name “Axe-her”. “What name?” he spluttered. “Axe-her,” repeated another woman. After much discussion he discovered that the women were referred to Achsah, the daughter of Caleb. This may also explain the existence of an Axar Starrs in Stockport - the daughter, appropriately, of one Caleb Starrs. The name Axar remained popular in Devonshire for some time.

A little boy called John wound up with an unfortunate bonus name due to his godparent’s strong accent and a misunderstanding at the baptismal font. “What name?” the priest asked, to which the godparent replied, “John honly.” The priest dutifully went on to declare, “John Honly, I baptise thee…”

Thomas and Elizabeth Pegden, residents of Kent during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, named their first four sons after the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. When Elizabeth gave birth to a fifth son in 1795, they decided to continue this theme by naming him after the next book of the New Testament, and thus he was christened Acts-of-the-Apostles Pegden. According to one source, his nickname was Actsy, “for the Vicar of Boughton has heard a parishioner speak of her uncle Actsy Pegden.” An older relative bore the name Pontius Pilate Pegden.

In the late 1800s, a Thurstonville man named his four sons Love-well, Do-well,Die-well and Fare-well Sykes. Around the same time, another boy, being the younger sibling of sisters Faith and Hope, was given the name And Charity.

Another fellow, rather bemusingly, named his son Judas-not-Iscariot.

Zachary Crofton, died 1672, clearly scoured the Scriptures in order to find names for his children. His five sons were called Zachary, Zareton, Zephaniah,Zelophehad and - presumably after all alliterative possibilities had been exhausted - John.

The Presbyterian clergy were fond of foisting on illegitimate children names reflective of the sins of their parents - names like Helpless, Repent, Repentance,Forsaken, Fly-fornication.

Among many other excellent Puritan names, there was also:

• Abstinence
• Abuse-not
• Continent
• Creature (a unisex name, apparently!)
• Do-good
• Experience
• Fear-not
• God-helpe
• Hate-evil
• Increased
• Job-rakt-out-of-the-asshes
• Joye-in-sorrow
• Lament
• Learn-wysdome
• Magnify
• More-fruit
• More-triale
• Muche-merceye
• No-merit
• Obey
• Original
• Preserved
• Refrayne
• Renewed
• Safe-on-Highe
• Silence
• Sin-deny
• Sorry-for-sin
• Thanks
• The-Lord-is-near
• Unfeigned
• What-God-will

All of these are trumped, however, by a Puritan girl who, when asked for her Christian name, replied, “Through-Much-Tribulation-We-Enter-The-Kingdom-Of-Heaven, but for short they call me Tribby.”

Awesome Puritan names

“no-merit” oh my god why

This is great and I’d just like to add that a member of Oliver Cromwell’s government was named Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damnéd Barbon.

princeof-gore:

141-point-12:

Look guys, I don’t want to name names or cause any unnecessary drama, but you know when you see some fanart and you can tell the artist really loves the characters and some deep part of them connects emotionally with their story and it shows in their treatment of the material? I love that. 

@riplae

babylonian:

babylonian:

i’m turning on anon for the next hour… here we go

This Was A Mistake

slimetony:

slimetony:

markrial:

slimetony:

fat-kitty:

slimetony:

I sincerely cant remember the last time that staff rolled out a feature that improved this website in any way

When they moved the reblog button to the bottom of posts

Where was it before?

at the top
we had to scroll all the way back up in order to reblog

Wh

What the fuck

jadedfalling:

unfriendlyindigenoushottie:

my grandfather is a residential school survivor. he literally has a BRAND of a number on his shoulder. he was a 6 year old child who was branded like a cow. he was given a new last name (he doesn’t even know his real last name) and was essentially brain washed into being white. the man, a full oglala lakota, doesn’t even call himself native anymore because he was beaten into being ashamed of it.  

do yall wanna tell me why it’s okay for you to dress up and play “indian” whenever less than 70 years ago, we were literally beaten and killed for being indian?

Be aware of this