LGBTQ

June 1, 2023

An Island in a Rural Sea: Palmer-Warner House as Queer Sanctuary

c) Connecticut Explored, Summer, 2023 ​​​By ​​Andy King​     ​​ Subscribe/Buy the Issue!   In the mid-​20​th century many members of what now is known as the LGBTQ+ community chose to live in urban areas such as […]
June 13, 2021

Grating the Nutmeg: Uncovering Connecticut’s LGBTQ History

EPISODE 119. Uncovering Connecticut’s LGBTQ History In this episode, Mary Donohue, Asst. Publisher of Connecticut Explored, interviews CCSU Assistant Professor of History William J. Mann about when and how the LGBTQ movement started in Connecticut, […]
November 23, 2020

A Brief History of Connecticut Gay Media

By William J. Mann (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2020-2021 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! My very first byline was in Metroline, Connecticut’s gay community newspaper, in 1987. Just out of college, I was excited to see […]
September 16, 2020

Site Lines: Bloodroot — A Place Where Feminism is Served Up — Deliciously

By Ilene Frank (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! You’ll never just pass by Bloodroot. But you should make a point to travel there. Tucked away in a residential neighborhood that sits […]
August 14, 2020

An Early Advocate for Connecticut’s Gay Community

By Emily E. Gifford (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A PDF For decades during the mid-20th century, working out of his offices at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford and […]
March 17, 2020

Philip Johnson’s 50-Year Experiment in Architecture and Landscape

By Gwen North Reiss (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Architect Philip Johnson first saw the five-acre piece of land where he would build his Glass House in the winter of 1945-1946, […]
December 26, 2019

Site Lines: A Love Story at the Palmer-Warner House

By Erin Farley   (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019   Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As the 50th anniversaries of the Stonewall Uprising and the first Pride rally are commemorated this year, one museum is preparing to […]
April 27, 2018

Philip Johnson In His Own Words

By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2009-2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern (The Monacelli Press, 2008) offers architect Philip Johnson’s candid take on his life and […]
May 2, 2017

Women Who Changed the World

By Barbara Sicherman Summer 2011 (c) Connecticut Explored Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin out of a burning need to “do something” about the infamous Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that […]
August 31, 2016

Stonington: Poet James Merrill’s House

by Charles T. Clark (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Hear a reading by the James Merrill House’s poet-in-residence with Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history: Poetry and Patriots in Stonington! […]
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