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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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For museum curators, garments offer stylish storytelling
The GLBT Historical Society is generously loaning several articles of clothing from its archive to be displayed in a Bay Area museum.
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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 injuries, and dozens of arrests.
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A transgender man’s diaries can help us learn what San Francisco was like decades ago
“Damn I’m going to be a gorgeous man,” Lou Sullivan wrote 40 years ago in one of his personal diaries. Sullivan, who died in 1991 at the age of 39 due to complications from AIDS, was a pioneering transgender activist in the 1970s and 1980s. His book Information for the Female to Male Cross Dresser […]
