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15 history-making LGBTQ+ veterans who fought for equality
For many years, LGBTQ+ servicemembers couldn’t serve openly. These courageous individuals served their country anyway.
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Drag queens stormed a psychiatric convention to demand they stop saying gays are sick. I was there.
“You may take this as a declaration of war against you!” Frank Kameny declared.
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Take a moment to remember these out LGBTQ veterans you may not know
We recognize these seven veterans from the American Revolution to the present who, while not having lost their lives in military action, sacrificed themselves in other ways.
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Legendary gay rights pioneer Kay Lahusen passes at 91
The world’s first out gay photojournalist, she documented the birth of the LGBTQ movement.
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This ‘homo historian’ is uncovering LGBTQ history & educating followers on social media
Dr. Eric Cervini is an authority on 1960s gay activism that opened his ‘Magic Closet’ to showcase his knowledge alongside looks online.
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How gay Halloween became a major event in one small Indiana town in 1975
Some people were deeply closeted and used the Halloween dance’s popularity to be around out LGBs while pretending to be straight.
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How Alfred Kinsey armed the early gay rights movement with research
Even early gay rights activists wouldn’t have known just how many people they were fighting for without him.
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The history of same-sex relationships is the history of marriage
Unions between people of the same-sex are hardly new phenomena. Love is eternal.
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The secret lesbian couple behind a historic meeting at the White House
They got LGBTQ leaders from around the country into Jimmy Carter’s White House.
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Stop saying Harvey Milk was the first out gay person elected to public office
He wasn’t even second. Here are the women who were first.