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About Leo Valdes

Leo Valdes is a graduate student in the History Department at Rutgers University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Leo:

LGBTQ+ Studies July 14, 2022

The Women's House of Detention

A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan

Hosted by Leo Valdes
The Women’s House of Detention stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village from 1929 to 1974. Throughout its history, it was a nexus for tens of thousands of women, trans …
LGBTQ+ Studies June 29, 2021

The Shape of Sex

Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

Leah DeVun

Hosted by Leo Valdes
Leah DeVun is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Leah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, science, and medicine in pre-modern Europe and on contemporary queer …
LGBTQ+ Studies April 12, 2021

Welcome to Fairyland

Queer Miami before 1940

Julio Capó Jr.

Hosted by Leo Valdes
Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)highlights how transnational forces—including (im)migration, trade, and tourism—to and from the Caribbean shaped Miami’s queer past. The book …
LGBTQ+ Studies January 4, 2021

Female Husbands

A Trans History

Jen Manion

Hosted by Leo Valdes
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men …