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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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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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3 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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Pride in Pictures 1970: LA’s first parade, Christopher Street West, defied sodomy laws
LA’s police harassment preceded the Stonewall Riots.
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Pride in Pictures before 1970: A radical message that eventually goes mainstream
Long before Stonewall, some brave people showed their Pride.
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Commentary
What can the movement to defeat AIDS teach us about fighting for gun safety laws?
The parallels with organizing around HIV/AIDS could not be more striking.
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Commentary
What would happen if all the LGBTQ healthcare workers called in sick?
The reality is that we are holding up this culture. We take care of our own – and everyone else too.
