Black History Month

The school closed after several groups threatened to protest and administrators worried things could get ugly.

“I was caught between these two worlds where the whites hated me, and the blacks disparaged me.”

Ginsburg named her as one of the co-authors in a career-defining legal brief, even though Pauli Murray had no hand in writing it.

Before RuPaul, there was Jackie Shane. Almost 50 years after she retired and faded from public view, she may be about to add a Grammy to her accolades.

In 1984, the Reverend Jesse Jackson brought gays and lesbians into the Democratic Party as part of the “Rainbow Coalition.”

You’ll learn something… and be entertained.

Glenn Burke (1952-95) was the first and only major league baseball player to come out as gay.

“All this new stuff they call rock ’n’ roll, why, I’ve been playing that for years now.”

Openly gay in an era far different from today, Rustin took his place among leaders of the 1963 March on Washington.

He was the first mayor to headline a gay-rights rally, and he established the city’s first office on gay and lesbian issues.