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Author: Dorian Alexander

Dorian Alexander teaches history at Seattle Central College, specializing in queer history and representations of the past in popular culture. They are one of the editors for Drawing the Past: Comics and the Historical Imagination, an upcoming book series exploring how comics shape our understanding of history.

Stealing Rainbows

by Dorian Alexander

Posted on March 22, 2021February 4, 2022

How North Americans’ lust for tropical pets drives a tragic trade in smuggled birds.

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The Mystique of Mystique

by Dorian Alexander

Posted on January 21, 2021July 21, 2021

From our POWER issue – “Fluid.”

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More Fraudulent Than a Speeding Locomotive

by Dorian Alexander

Posted on May 19, 2020July 28, 2021

How the transcontinental railroad’s construction was the biggest scam of the gilded age.

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The Homophobic Hysteria of the Lavender Scare

by Dorian Alexander

Posted on May 31, 2019May 27, 2022

Despite a thriving queer community in Washington, the 1950s State Department fired gay and lesbian workers en masse.

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The Life of Gad Beck: Gay. Jewish. Nazi Fighter.

by Dorian Alexander

Posted on January 25, 2019March 5, 2021

Gad was just ten when the Nazis seized power, and spent the war providing for Jews living underground in Berlin.

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Drag Balls of the Civil War

by Dorian Alexander

Posted on October 5, 2018July 22, 2022

Queerness has always existed—even on the Civil War battlefield.

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