Michael Bedwell
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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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Homophobia and homosexuality during World War I
Homosexuality was lobbed as an insult during the war while gay people hid it, but sometimes it would “hide in plain sight.”
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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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Surrender Dorothy! For more than a century the US Navy was the worst branch for LGB people
From hiring men to entrap civilians to imprisoning gay sailors for years, the Navy earned its reputation for homophobia.
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The ‘Imitation’ Alan Turing vs. the real Alan Turing: Victim vs. hero
“The Imitation Game” portrays Alan Turing as a weak whiny, and possibly a traitor to his country. But the real Alan Turing was a hero.
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2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the White Night Riot. “He got away with murder!”
The night the man who murdered Harvey Milk got away with murder, there were 12 incinerated police cars, 150 arrests, and dozens of arrests.
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Inconvenient truths: Potholes along the yellow brick road of LGBTQ history
The word “faggot” does not come from burning gays at the stake.
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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.
