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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 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.
