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LGBTQ history museum finds silver lining in pandemic pivot to virtual exhibits
When visitors stopped walking in the doors due to the pandemic, this enterprising museum decided to take their exhibits to people’s homes.
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Snapshots discovered in historical society archives showcase queer life in 1970s San Francisco
Hundreds of photos have been discovered – and digitizing them is a priority.
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The “most obscure famous artist” was a photographer of lesbian sexuality
One of her books was denounced on the floor of Congress, but in the queer community Tee Corinne was a master of her craft. Now the wider world is starting to celebrate her too.
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Why don’t more people know about Alice Austen?
It’s been a long time coming, but officials at the Alice Austen House have thrown open the closet door, now fully embracing the lesbian photographer who lived in the house with her longtime partner, Gertrude Tate.
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Angela Davis is America’s most famous living revolutionary. She’s also a lesbian.
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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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.