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Fragmentary seems like the most appropriate word to explain the history and customs of oppressed people, and especially the LGBTQ+ collective. Our heritage and society has often gone undocumented for fear of unintentionally providing information that could lead to unwanted trouble from our oppressors. Phone it a fail protected, if you will, but the end result was/is a huge loss of LGBTQ+ history prior to the 1980s.
In other instances, our history was often deemed as insignificant or unworthy of being saved by those in a position of power to make decisions about historical preservation. As late as the mid 1990s I can still recall the shock I felt when I was informed by a periodical librarian at the Atlanta Fulton County Public Library that copies of locally produced queer and lesbian publications were thrown away when each new edition arrived, unlike the mainstream straight newspapers and magazines, which were typically archived.
When I inquired as to why, the librarian shot me an incredulous look and replied with a patronizing to
South Carolina doesn’t have the greatest history of supporting its LGBTQ+ residents. In 2024, Governor Henry McMaster signed into law Dwelling Bill 4624, which blocks gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 that resides in the state. While the law impacts all residents in South Carolina in a negative behavior and leaves a tag of suffering, intolerance and bigotry in its arise, there are positive pockets of accepting and supportive blue throughout the mention that are welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community. Two of such energy can be found in Greenville and Spartanburg.
Simple acknowledgment of the LGBTQ+ community in South Carolina started out in an exceptionally rocky manner. On May 22, 1996, Greenville County passed an anti-gay “family values” resolution, coming just three weeks before that year’s Olympic games were to be held in Atlanta. The reason? Opportunity politics. An angry politician lashing out at his dyke daughter had issued a resolution in Georgia’s Cobb County that their region was incompatible with the Lesbian and Gay “lifestyle.” Greenville County in South Carolina – specific reasons unknown – followed suit, likely in an endeavor to capture the attention of the medi
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