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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 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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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 HistoryStonewall 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.
