LGBTQ+ Historians & Social Scientists
All practitioners of LGBTQ+ history, social science, political science, and more are welcome to join this starter pack!
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@heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social
@hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of French @ Harvard. c19-20; gender/sexuality; print culture; queer lit & reading. Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France coming soon from Cornell 🌈🌱 😷♾️
@jsfarr.bsky.social
Assoc prof of ENGL, Marquette U • writing about deafness, disability, queerness in the looong c18 • cat dad • running punk • KEXP listener • novel reader • 🏳️🌈🦻• 🏀🏈 U of U, MU, Bucks, Packers • he/him
@jonahgarde.bsky.social
trans* studies & histories, archives, cultural memory, colonialism and modernity. Banting Postdoctoral Fellow @UBC 2024-26. Falls in love with every dog. they/them. t4t always. "Trans* Geschichten der Moderne" forthcoming with transcript in 2025.
@heartsparks.bsky.social
Scholar, teacher, desert creature. Love the outdoors and animals. Pronouns: they/them
@hilmalatino.bsky.social
Woods Weirdo // Professor at Farmer’s High// Author of Side Affects, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment he/they if you insist
@sandyosullivan.bsky.social
Aboriginal trans/non-binary/queer/ND doing anti-colonial work on museums/art/gender/culture @IndigFutures. ARC Future Fellow. I mostly make jokes about museums. I'm 59! them/sib/kin
@alanlee99.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Roehampton, funded by Technē-DTP. Researching Symbols of Pride and the Politics of Queer Liberation https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/alan-lee
@nataliejester.bsky.social
Chickpea-lover and Kadis-Kot champion. Lecturer @ Uni of Gloucestershire. Security studies, digital things. Bring back old Twitter. She/her
@jameyj.bsky.social
PhD Candidate & Canada Vanier Scholar @ University of Victoria | 🏳️⚧️ Trans histories of Indigenous & colonial Western North America (pre-20th C) https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php
@tyleralbertario.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ historian | host "This Side of the Rainbow" podcast | 32 | bi (as in, attracted to more than one gender) | he/him | #BlackLivesMatter
@nickotawang.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 #Historian of US #History | Higher Ed Coach/Advisor/Mentor | Thrifting |Antiques | Bibliophile | Diecast Matchbox Cars Dual Masters of Arts in Higher Ed and US History
@queerasfact.bsky.social
Queer history podcast with over 150 episodes presenting stories from around the world and throughout time. https://www.queerasfact.com/ Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever good pods are found.
@adamegriff.bsky.social
- Curator, Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com) - Author, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) - Lecturer in WGSS @ Gonzaga University - Collects your old technology junk and cats.
@kothe.bsky.social
PhD Student, Cornell University. American Political Development, Comparative Political Economy, and Queer Politics. Writes About Catholicism Sometimes. Rhymes with Goethe. 🌱🏳️🌈 aekothe.com
@herstoryprof.bsky.social
Feminist historian, dog-mom, book-lover, queer academic. She/her. “Sex Matters: Katharine Bement Davis and the World's First Study of "Normal" Women’s Sexuality during America's First Sexual Revolution” f/c from NYU Press in 2026. More at anyajabour.com.
@carolinederry.bsky.social
Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history. Early women barristers. Agatha Christie. Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University. 📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025) 📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020) #ActuallyAutistic
@renfro.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. Wrote STRANGER DANGER (Oxford University Press, 2020) and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (UNC Press, 2024). Represented by the Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Father of H and G. He/him.
@martypadgett.bsky.social
THE MANY PASSIONS OF MICHAEL HARDWICK, W.W. Norton, 6/3/25 Pre-orders: https://tinyurl.com/mr3njp25 A NIGHT AT THE SWEET GUM HEAD, W.W. Norton, 2021 https://tinyurl.com/2txrjwb2. Musical adaptation TK PhD/MFA, FWIW I'm an OK baker
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
assistant prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
@milhistcurator.bsky.social
Curator @ National Museum of American History; National Historian Emeritus @ Civil Air Patrol; Secretary @ Air Force Historical Foundation; curator/historian, father/husband, lover of birds (pigeons especially).
@breefram.bsky.social
Rocket Scientist, Author, Leadership/Inclusion Speaker, Nerd, 🏳️⚧️ Opinions my own (Standard DoD Disclaimer) Colonel, United States Space Force Host, Forged in Fire LGBTQ+ Leadership Podcast
@drkarenlcox.bsky.social
Award-winning historian. Professor Emerita. Author of four books w/two more in the wings. My share of op-eds in NYT, WaPo, CNN, Time, & Smithsonian Magazine. #NC #WV
@echomikeromeo.bsky.social
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow
@karadixonvuic.bsky.social
Historian of war and society @TCU. Author of “The Girls Next Door” and “Officer Nurse Woman”. Working on “Drafting Women”
@womenknowlaw.bsky.social
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary
@lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social
The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
@heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social
historian | training for my first marathon (in 2026) | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone