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On May 13th at 6pm Queer Newark spotlights Kristyn Scorsone's wonderful work "Invisible Pathways: Entrepreneurship by Queer Women of Color in Newark"! Join us and then stay for the Newark LGBTQ Community Center's 4th Annual Dance-A-Thon Fundraiser with DJ Just Love!Â
A spate of aggressive anti-obscenity legislation is targeting the adult industry. Will the Trump administration escalate it?
“ Whitney Strub, a historian of the politics of pornography at Rutgers, told me he thought even Sessions—who floated the possibility of reviving a dedicated anti-obscenity task force within the Department of Justice during his confirmation hearings—wouldn't tackle porn until he's had a crack at "other major agenda items, such as reasserting racial profiling, hyper-criminalizing protest, and suppressing dissent."
*Your contribution makes a difference and changes the lives of the members of our community like the 13-year old who was born female but identifies as male but cannot share his story with his family or the married couple who live in a small commu...
May 13th Dance-A-Thon to raise money for the Newark LGBTQ Community Center in Newark, NJ! Click the link and help support the center, a much needed sanctuary for Newark’s LGBTQ community!Â
Check out this article for Out in Jersey on the Queer Newark Oral History Project at Rutgers, Newark and how it is working to preserve Newark's queer history!
The Annual Women's and Gender Studies Symposium is next week at RU-N! Save the date and don't miss it!
“Every place, every person, and every object has a history, but not all histories are told.”
The QNOHP is proud to be a sponsor of Telling Untold Histories – New Jersey’s annual unconference that looks for human stories yet to be told, explores these histories and asks why some stories remain untold. This inclusive experience will take place on May 11 at Rutgers University-Newark. We hope you will join us to share your history and engage with (other) museum professionals and public history practitioners from organizations of all sizes, librarians, public history educators, volunteers, students and emerging professionals.
For more information and to register visit https://untoldhistories.wordpress.com. Please share! All are welcome, but registration is required.
Save the date and spread the word! The 4th Annual Dance-A-Thon is coming! Please note: this event will make you smile and laugh continuously while you boogie down.
Marleny Franco has been a Horticulturist helping people grow food for over thirty-five years. She holds a Master’s degree in Plant Physiology from Rutgers University and worked as an Agricultural County Agent and professor at Rutgers University for eleven years before moving on to establish and run an environmental horticultural non-profit organization called: Greater Newark Conservancy.
Check out the latest Queer Newark oral history with Marleny Franco, founder of the Greater Newark Conservancy, an environmental horticultural non-profit organization.
As a horticulturist, Franco has been helping people grow food for over thirty-five years. Through her work with the Greater Newark Conservancy she was successful in encouraging thousands of individuals to garden in NJ and across the US. She views gardening as a true revolution that allows us to restore our soil and our health, while bringing us closer to nature. During the interview, she talks about growing up as a tomboy in Colombia, how she started the Greater Newark Conservancy, what it was like working with various members of the Newark community including school children and those who had been incarcerated, and why it is so crucial that we care where our food comes from.
Currently, Franco has an organic gardening blog to teach and empower people to start their own gardens. She also established her own landscaping design and installation business, Grace Enhancement & Landscaping (www.Gracelandscaping.com) with a focus on organic landscaping and the creation of natural landscapes.
Tom Hayden (1939-2016) was a major figure in the New Left of the 1960s. A young white man from Michigan, he was physically attacked by racist white Southerners when he accompanied the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on “freedom rides” in the South. He was also an early leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the flagship organization of the student left and anti-war movement.
While sitting in a weird hotel room in Culver City in 2014, Professor Whit Strub interviewed Tom Hayden about Carl Wittman and Newark.
"Tom Hayden (1939-2016) was a major figure in the New Left of the 1960s. A young white man from Michigan, he was physically attacked by racist white Southerners when he accompanied the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on “freedom rides” in the South. He was also an early leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the flagship organization of the student left and anti-war movement. As the author of the famous 1962 SDS Port Huron Statement, he spoke for white middle-class activists, with the opening line, “We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.”
Hayden was a straight man, but his importance to Queer Newark history stems from his fraught relationship with Carl Wittman, a gay man with whom Hayden co-authored the important 1963 SDS policy paper “An Interracial Movement of the Poor.”
“Outhistory asked four scholars to share their reflections on the series—how it frames (and distorts) the history of the LGBT movement, and what it means for academics, activists, and other TV watchers and creators today.”
A few aspiring iconic women to celebrate International Women's day:
Maya Angelou
,,Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all woman.’’
Michelle Obama
,,Time and time again history has shown us that there is nothing, nothing, more powerful than ordinary citizens coming together for a just cause.’’
Malala Yousafzai
,,So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.’’
Emma Watson
It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by who we are.Â
Since there are so many women inspiring other women all over the world, I only showed a few. Feel free to add anyone!
Save the Date for the Telling Untold Histories Conference at Rutgers-Newark!Â
Known for her work helping homeless LGBT youth in New Jersey, Elaine Helms came to our attention as a tomboy we wanted to salute. Elaine founded and now works as the executive director of the Essex County LGBT R.A.I.N (Reaching Adolescents In Need) Foundation. They work to provide safe and supportive emergency housing solutions to young adults (18-26) and adolescents who are homeless because of their sexual orientation. We caught up with Elaine and got the lowdown on her non-profit, surviving the World Trade Center 9/11 attacks and her work as a badass model. Your job working with LGBT young adults sounds fantastic. Where did you get the idea to help them? I used to work for the Port Authority at the World Trade Center and was injured during 9/11 attacks. I was disabled and spent a lot of time recovering from my physical and emotional injuries. I wanted to get back to work and I knew I wanted to do something in the medical field. I was hired by a lab in a clinic doing drug screening. Across the street, I noticed a lot of prostitution going on and I also noticed that many of them were trans-gender kids. I started talking to them and asking them why they didn’t get a regular job. They said they were discriminated against, thrown out of homes and that nobody seemed to understand them. Most of them were on drugs to get high to take their minds somewhere else while they did what they had to do to survive. They wouldn’t stay in the clinic because they were ridiculed by other people there. This experience gave me the idea to open a shelter to give them love and skills in a safe place where they would be accepted. It’s a newly renovated house that looks like a home. When they come in, they get comfortable and feel like they belong. There is a house mom who lives there and helps them. When they move out, they have cleaning, cooking, laundry and basic life skills. We also have someone coming in October to teach financial literacy so they can learn how not to live from paycheck to paycheck. What do the young adults need and how can people help support this cause?Glad you asked! Because our shelter is fairly new but very much so needed, we are always actively focusing on fundraising. It’s the only thing that keeps our doors open as we continue to provide services to help keep our homeless off the streets and in safe housing. We currently have an ongoing GOFUNDME campaign that just recently launched. Any and all money we collect there goes immediately to operational costs such as lights, phone, food, etc. Most of our funding comes from donations and fundraising and we appreciate every dime so much. People can also go to our website to find out how to donate to our shelter, sign up for our newsletter, learn more about the work we’re doing as well as see what some of our immediate needs are. We can always use volunteers, mentors, clothing, help with leadership on our board of directors. There is so much that people can choose from to do if they wanted to come along side and help. People can follow us at Facebook.com/EssexLGBThousing and on Twitter at @NJLGBTshelter. You were recently honored by North Jersey Pride. Tell us about that. Yes. They honored me for the work my team and I have done in providing a unique shelter that gives anyone that’s LGBT and homeless the opportunity to be safe and be who they are without judgment. Your passion to help young adults is inspiring. Where does the passion come from? I advocate for them because we still live in a world where being gay is considered wrong and although important milestones have been reached in the LGBTQ community such as Marriage Equality, we still have to fight for housing rights, acceptance and cultural competency within various support/service organizations. Unfortunately, our adolescents and young adults are still being thrown out of their homes for coming out of the closet and are still being mocked and mistreated in traditional shelters, especially for our transgender youth. Marriage Equality has gotten us victory and we’re proud of that but we’re also looking forward to the next national focus to address transgender equality as well as address the fact that 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ. Tell everyone the story about how you connected with TomboyX? My fiancé, Tamara Fleming, co-owner of FEMWORKS, is LGBTQ certified and attended the NGLCC International Business & Leadership conference in Fort Lauderdale. It was there during a networking event that I met Fran and Naomi and heard about TomboyX and that they were finalist for the Biz Pitch Content held during the conference. I’m also known in my community for modeling and have been doing so for over 15 years. Ironically, I go by the stage name of “Pretty Tomboy.” Tamara showed Fran and Naomi a few pictures of me from a few events I modeled and walked in for different local designers in NJ. They both asked if I would mind modeling their product for the pitch contest and of course, I said yes. I got to walk around 700+ people in my new TomboyX underwear. They won the contest and the rest is history! What is your favorite TomboyX product? The underwear! The boxer briefs and tank tops are my all-time favorite. The fact they are made for women is the greatest thing because up until now, I wore men briefs and the bands were always tight and created an undesired bulge around my sides. TomboyX doesn’t do that. Because the tank tops are made for women, I don’t have to worry about the opening to the arms being too wide or big. I give TomboyX an A+. Who is your favorite Tomboy? Besides myself, I would have to say Ellen DeGeneres.
The history of modern hardcore deserves to be studied, not end up in a dumpster.
Historian Whitney Strub on the importance of archiving pornography.
"Porno chic" culture of the 1970s provided an opportunity to embrace—or challenge—the sexual revolution.
"As the 1970s recede in public memory, something dire is happening to that decade’s sexual cultural products. The actual films are fading into oblivion, as victims of a chemical breakdown process that destroys images captured on celluloid film stock, and the magazines and other erotic ephemera are increasingly hidden away in archives, out of public view. As the contributors to this roundtable (and to the Porno Chic collection) discuss, this is a pivotal moment to document what 1970s pornography meant to its producers and consumers."
Happening Thursday March 30th! "LGBTQ Veterans and Active Military Service, The Courage to Be..." at Rutgers-Newark in Ackerson Hall, Dean's Lounge.
Join us from 6:00-6:45pm for Film Clips and then 7pm-9pm for a Panel Discussion + Q&A!
