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How instant photography changed the stakes for LGBTQ people
With the advent of the Polaroid, LGBTQ people were free to be themselves and have a lasting memory without having to drop off films to be developed by a third party.
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How the number 41 became an anti-gay slur in Mexico
It became such an unlucky and unwanted number that they have skipped it for hotel rooms, house numbers, building floors, and even battalion numbers.
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Pauli Murray is the most important queer American activist you probably haven’t heard about
Pauli Murray is, in many respects, the one-name answer to why we need LGBTQ History Month.
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Pro baseball player Glenn Burke refused to live a lie & came out in 1982
His coach introduced him to the team, saying ‘Oh, by the way, this is Glenn Burke. And he’s a faggot.’” Now the team hosts an LGBTQ Pride night in his honor.
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How a psychologist & an activist created Coming Out Day decades ago
The Supreme Court just ruled that people could be thrown in jail for being gay while the HIV epidemic ravaged the community, and two people knew that LGBTQ identity itself needed to be celebrated.
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PBS’s new film “Cured” tells the story of how LGBTQ people stopped being sick
A small group of thoughtful, committed citizens force psychiatrists to reexamine their homophobia and transphobia. This is how it happened.
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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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A New York Times article proclaiming “Homosexuals Proud of Deviancy” is resurfacing online
“Homosexuals have gone beyond the plane of defensiveness and now argue that their deviancy is ‘a desirable, noble, preferable way of life.'” How dare they!
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Meet the Dutch gay man who defied the Nazis & saved thousands of lives
Before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazi party, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer to spread a message after he was gone. “Let it be known,” he said. “Homosexuals are not cowards.”
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Disneyland wouldn’t let same-sex couples dance together until a gay teen sued in the 80’s
A behemoth in the entertainment industry and the largest private employer in Orange County, Disneyland had never lost a legal battle in court. Until this one.