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QT Deep Dive

QT Deep Dive explores queer and trans histories and herstories, both at the University of Texas and beyond. Do you have a queer/trans historical topic you’d like us to research for you? Send your queries to lgbtq@austin.utexas.edu.

November 28, 2022, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

“We Didn’t Have to Ask Permission”: UT’s 1960s Hidden Gay Oasis

Hartlyn Haynes on the secret history of UT’s gay “Chateau”.

July 7, 2022, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

Looking Back at Barbara Jordan

Lisa L. Moore discusses the political and queer legacies of Barbara Jordan.

July 7, 2022, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

Fighting Discrimination in the AIDS Era

Hartlyn Haynes dives into the history of queer organizing at UT Austin.

February 13, 2022, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

Deep Dive: Going to the Mattresses for Gender-Inclusive Housing

Jester West student dorm located in UT Austin

Adrienne Hunter describes activist efforts going back to 2006 on the UT campus.

November 18, 2021, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

Jabs in the Dark: Speculations on the Affective Politics of Pandemics

Neville Hoad considers the HIV/AIDS pandemics in conversation with each other.

July 20, 2021, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

Trans Queer Migrations and Border-Making: Central American LGBTQ+ Caravans as Life-Making Projects

Group of transgender and gay asylum seekers marching down the street holding a large banner that reads "1ra Caravana Trans Gay Migrante...".

Dr. Nakay Flotte discusses her research on recent collectivized migrations.

March 8, 2021, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

Unfinished Progress: The 2006 “State of LGBTQ Affairs at UT” Report

photo of author smiling at camera partly lit by pink light wearing turtle neck and cardigan

Adrienne Hunter, co-director of The Queer & Trans Student Alliance, reviews the 2006 “State of LGBTQ Affairs at UT” Report, and and explains why a new report is being written.

September 21, 2020, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

“We Don’t Have to Boo It:” UT’s Black Lesbian Student Government President

Newspaper clipping with title reads "Luckett scores sound victory" referring to Toni Luckett, a black feminist lesbian woman who became student president at UT in 1990.

Brynna Boyd looks at the election of Toni Luckett, UT’s first Black Lesbian, student-body president in 1990.

April 17, 2020, Filed Under: QT Deep Dive

“Nest of Homosexuals” Leads to 1944 Firing of UT President

Newspaper clipping from The Capital Times, Wisconsin, November 18, 1944

“My criticism is letting that kind get on the faculty in the first place.”
— Orville Bullington, a University of Texas Regent in 1944 during the nationwide targeting of queer faculty and students that came to be known as the “Gay Purges.”

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