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    Out and About

    Out and About was a monthly paper through 2008. Credit ML

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    Labrys Books

    Poster for the opening of Labrys Books. Credit ML

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    Gayzette

    The Virginia Gayzette began publishing in 2009. Credit ML

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    Rev. Robin Gorsline

    Rev. Robin Gorlsine pastors MCC-Richmond today. Credit JS

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    Carl Archaki

    Carl Archaki served on the Virginia Sexual Minorities Commission and was a leader in Dignity. Credit ML

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    ERA March

    March in support of the Equal Rights Amendment, Richmond, January, 1979. Credit ML

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    DC March October 1979

    Richmond Lesbian Feminists members march in the first National March for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Wasgington, DC, October, 1979. Credit ML

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    Women'sBooks

    Women'sBooks display at the 1981 Richmond Lesbian Feminists Women's Festival. Credit ML

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    Judge Robert Merhige

    Judge Robert Merhige (right) meets US Senate candidate John Warner and his wife, Elizabeth Taylor. Credit ML

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    Mulberry House Residents

    Mulberry House residents, 1975. Credit ML

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    Stephen Lenten

    Virginia Commonwealth University Dean Stephen Lenten battled in court for university recognition of the Gay Alliance of Students. Credit ML

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    Aunt Bee

    Members of GAP attended New York's 1975 Gay Pride Parade and Festival. Drag entertainer Stanley Kelsey appeared as Aunt Bee. Kelsey later served on the GAP board, and as Dora Lee Lewis remains a fixture of the Richmond scene. Credit ML

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    Patch Adams

    Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams in 1973

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    Dora Lee Lewis

    Stanley Kelsey performed as DoraLee Lewis. This picture is circa 1980. Credit ML

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    Tony Segura

    In the 1950s, Gonzalo "Tony" Segura co-founded the Mattachine Society, commonly considered the first national LGBT organization. Segura's moved to Richmond in 1959, but his efforts to start a Mattachine chapter in Richmond were…

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    Broadway Cafe

    The Broadway Cafe was originally Benny Sepul's, a 1950s-era restaurant with a private back area for gay men. Credit ML

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    Hunter Stagg

    Avante garde writer Hunter Stagg hosted gay and lesbian authors. Credit ML

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    Ellen Glasgow

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ellen Glasgow was a suffrage activist and a prominent member of Richmond's literary circle. Credit ML

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    Lewis Ginter

    Lewis Ginter was a Civil War veteran, who with his longtime companion John Pope was a leader of Richmond society in the late 19th Century. Credit ML

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    Mary Walker

    Civil War veteran Mary Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor. Washington's Whitman-Walker Clinic is named in her honor. Credit ML