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History has overlooked the Gay Liberation Front’s role in Stonewall … until now
The group was at Stonewall and planted the seeds that started a revolution for years afterwards.
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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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The ballroom scene has been a place for LGBTQ people of color to grow for decades
“Just seeing the joy and excitement of people when they hit the back of that runway, their talents come to life. It’s overjoying for me.”
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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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The first St. Patrick’s Day parade to allow LGBTQ marchers didn’t happen where you’d imagine
Long before gays and lesbians were fighting for the right to participate in cities like Boston, New York City and Chicago, an unlikely state capital welcomed LGBTQ marchers with open arms.
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LGBTQ celebrities spent years journeying off-screen to achieve equality on-screen
Long before “Brokeback Mountain,” “Ellen” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a handful of queer characters and comedians helped paved the way for #LGBT representation onscreen.
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Frank Kameny devoted his life to fighting for gay rights. He lived to see the end of DADT.
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.
