The Weekly Bulletin: January 20, 2022

—The remarkable, and oft invisible, influence of the LGBTQ+ community on the United States—

The Non-fiction Feature

A Queer History of the United States

Author: Michael Bronski
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages: 312 | 2012

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In addition, many heterosexual feminists and civil rights advocates held biases against homosexuals…The irony is that the feminist movement’s fundamental critique of sexual power differences, inequalities in the workplace, and the legal inequities and problems faced by women…were all first articulated by the Daughters of Bilitis [, a pro-lesbian group].

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The Memoir & Poetry Spot
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
by Ocean Vuong

To keep
& be kept.
The way a field turns
its secrets
into peonies.
The way light
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it.

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The Product Spot
Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index



HRC’s Index is the renown benchmarking tool on corporate policies, practices, and benefits for LGBTQ+ employees. That is, which employers treat their LGBTQ+ employees well?