Over the last thirty years in the United States our culture became more open and accepting of expressions of sexuality and gender identity. We also know as genealogy researchers, our attitudes and norms now, were not our ancestors’ attitudes and norms. Despite these challenges, our ancestors’ still left clues to their LGBTQ life.
In this episode Stewart shares:
Stewart Blandón Traiman blogs monthly at his website sixgen.org on LGBTQ genealogy and is serializing his presentation to help genealogists. He also offers his LGBTQ presentation live and does workshops on a variety of other topics, including spreadsheets for genealogy.
Links
Stewart Blandón Traiman, Six Generations - www.sixgen.org
Vintage Photograph Collection of LBGTQ Life: www.homohistory.com
William Way LGBT Community Center, John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives - waygay.org/archives
Books mentioned by Stewart:
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