LGBTQ
October 15, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
September 1, 2025
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August 15, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
July 1, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
June 10, 2025
NEW BRITAIN, Conn., June 9, 2025 — Connecticut Explored magazine’s award-winning podcast Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history, has been awarded a $2,450 Connecticut Humanities Quick Grant to support production and promotion of […]
June 1, 2025
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June 1, 2023
c) Connecticut Explored, Summer, 2023 By Andy King Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the mid-20th century many members of what now is known as the LGBTQ+ community chose to live in urban areas such as […]
June 13, 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]