[NEWS] Four queer links: trans IDs in Weimar Germany, Pride, Kevin Spacey, queer history

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• Atlas Obscura notes that remarkably forward-thinking IDs for trans people produced in Germany during the late Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.


• Daily Xtra notes how Pride, in different Canadian cities, has (or has not been) corporatized in different ways.


• This powerful essay by Alexander Chee at them.us asking what role Kevin Spacey can play, despite everything, in the gay community is a must-read.


• VICE takes a look at some of the reasons queer history is finally getting mainstream attention, in pop culture and elsewhere.