Episode 306 - Barbara Gittings - The Librarian Who Shelved Shame
So, as June 2026 draws to a close, we present the life and times of Barbara Gittings, a woman who refused to let the world define her as insane or a degenerate just because she was a lesbian. She set out to change things, curating museum collections so not everything about the LGBT+ was written by doctors, moralists or police. She made libraries a safe space for queer people trying to discover who they were. She lobbied the American Psychiatric Association and the DSM to remove the mental health stigma from a judgement of homosexuality and to get homosexuality removed from the DSM. She, and…
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