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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 injuries, 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.
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Reed Erickson was a trans man who bankrolled early LGBT movements
Fundraising is central to the LGBTQ movement today. But decades ago, several organizations depended on one trans man.
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Black lesbian Ernestine Eckstein was protesting when most gays thought protests were crazy
Closeted gays and even many early gay organizations criticized her for being visible and active.
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Frank Kameny devoted his life to fighting for gay rights. He lived to see several victories.
Kameny replaced “Homosexuality is unfortunate” with “Gay is good” long before many LGBTQ historic figures were even out.
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In 1972, gay people spoke at the Democratic National Convention for the first time
They had to speak at 5 a.m. and were followed by a straight woman who accused them of pedophilia, but they spoke.