Dewey Decimal Classification
Dewey decimal classification (DDC) itself would assign lesbians, gay men, bisexual people and transgender people (LGBTI people) to a call number, , as a kind of ‘abnormal sexual relations’ (modified fourteenth edition of the DDC). Season 11 is now underway! To see the standings and schedule, please go to "League Play" at the top menu.
Deep Dickollective
Deep Dickollective (D/DC) was an LGBT hip hop group based in Oakland, California that were active in the homo hop scene of openly queer/ LGBT artists during the s. They were regular performers at the PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival curated by group co-founder Juba Kalamka. View the full Sunday game schedule. Since its early beginnings, the league has grown to over players and has fielded as many as 20 teams in a season! Lesbianism in DCC
By the time DDC 20 was published ten years later in , we can see that gays and lesbians had indeed come a long way. Out of the civil rights movement of the sixties was born the gay rights movement. Leading up to the LGBT community faced a number of discriminatory acts from federal and local government. Congress passed a law outlawing sodomy in D. 
A brief history of homophobia in Dewey decimal classification
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) (pronounced / ˈduː.iː / DOO-ee) colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. This paper was originally submitted to Prof. It is generally understood that the structure and content of the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme reflect and reveal the deep biases and prejudices held not only by Melvil Dewey himself, but by the society in which he lived and thought.
Rainbow History Project
Hi! I have watched a few seasons of MTT a while ago, and recently watched the Netflix docuseries thing. I've noticed the complete lack of lgbt+ people involved in the organisation: specifically, the lack of lesbians. While you see a few (who I assume to be) gay men working as hairstylists/makeup artists/etc in affilliation with DCC, I have never seen or heard of a lesbian DCC except Leslie. In the DC Universe, several characters identify as queer. Unfortunately explicit queer representation is relatively new to comics due to homophobic censorship--Until the s, the Comics Code Authority explicitly forbade the appearances of comic characters being depicted as queer. Naming the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Prior to the s, all comic book characters were assumed to be, and presented as, "straight" heterosexual people. But people are complicated and societies evolve, so since that time it has come to be acknowledged that some characters are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. The Comics Code Authority explicitly forbade depiction of homosexuality until , influenced by Fredric Wertham's. . LGBT
Nellie's, one of the few notable gay bars to open since , are attended by straight people and many bars without the intention of being a gay bar welcome and celebrate their LGBT community. Created by Kate Rabinowitz / DataLensDC for D.C. Policy Center Sources: Rainbow History Project, Metro Weekly, Washington City Paper, The Blade. . 
DataLensDC
Rainbow History Project’s mission is to collect, preserve and promote the history and culture of the LGBTQ community of metropolitan Washington, D.C. We are an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization and membership is free. .