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The Unknown Librarian Who Saved Queer History

July 15, 2023

You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana. But the librarian was instrumental in preserving hundreds of thousands of artifacts of queer history.

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In Harper's Bazaar Tags LGBTQ, history, essay, Social Justice, Books, museums, Politics
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The Last Free Woman

August 23, 2022

The first words Nan McTeer ever said to me were, “I’m currently in hospice care. I have lung cancer, it has metastasized to my brain, but my mind is still okay! You’ve got a while to pump me for information.”

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In Harper's Bazaar Tags LGBTQ, Feminism, history
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