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Dorian Alexander

Author: Dorian Alexander

Dorian Alexander teaches history at Seattle Central College, specializing in queer history and representations of the past in popular culture. He is 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.

More Fraudulent Than a Speeding Locomotive

by Dorian Alexander

Posted on May 19, 2020May 21, 2020

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, 2019

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, 2019

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

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