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LGBTQ HistoryDrag 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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LGBTQ HistoryTake a moment to remember these out LGBTQ veterans you may not know
We recognize these seven veterans from the American Revolution to the present who, while not having lost their lives in military action, sacrificed themselves in other ways.
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CommentaryLegendary gay rights pioneer Kay Lahusen passes at 91
The world’s first out gay photojournalist, she documented the birth of the LGBTQ movement.
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LifeThis ‘homo historian’ is uncovering LGBTQ history & educating followers on social media
Dr. Eric Cervini is an authority on 1960s gay activism that opened his ‘Magic Closet’ to showcase his knowledge alongside looks online.
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LGBTQ HistoryHow 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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LGBTQ HistoryHow 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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LGBTQ HistoryThe 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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LGBTQ HistoryThe 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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LGBTQ HistoryStop 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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LGBTQ HistoryBlack 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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LGBTQ HistoryFrank Kameny devoted his life to fighting for gay rights. He lived to see several victories.
Kameny replaced “Homosexuality is unfortunate” with “Gay is good” long before many LGBTQ historic figures were even out.
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LGBTQ HistoryIn 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.
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LGBTQ History3 years before Stonewall, gay activists protested all over the country on same day
All over the country, protests about the military’s ban on gay soldiers were organized. Liberals and conservatives alike hated it.
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LGBTQ HistoryIn 1976, the Supreme Court slapped down a sodomy law challenge with just four words
It all started with a Help Wanted ad.
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LGBTQ PridePride in Pictures before 1970: A radical message that eventually goes mainstream
Long before Stonewall, some brave people showed their Pride.
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CommentaryComing out from behind the lens: How one lesbian’s photos captured the rise of gay rights
Kay Lahusen was the first photojournalist of the LGBTQ movement and she helped to document the earliest protests for homosexual rights.
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CommentaryDid you know there is an outdoor museum of LGBTQ history?
Chicago’s Legacy Walk teaches our history in a unique and fascinating manner.
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LGBTQ History
Stonewall Strong: When ‘gay liberation’ was freedom from fear
The gay activists who converged on Washington on Dec. 15, 1973, were the first group of patients in history to insist that they were not sick.
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Health and Wellness
How homosexuality stopped being a disease
In 1971, activists stormed into the annual American Psychiatric Association conference and literally declared war. By 1973, the APA had surrendered.
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News (USA)
Library of Congress acquires activist’s vast collection of gay rights memorabilia
WASHINGTON — The Library of Congress has acquired the papers, photographs, films and memorabilia of gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, the nation’s largest library announced Thursday.
