James Baldwin

James Baldwin, Writer

Barbara Deming

Barbara Deming, Writer and Activist

Samuel Steward

Samuel Steward, Writer and Tattoo Artist

Gay Liberation Front protest in Bloomington Indiana

Members of the Gay Liberation Front of Bloomington Indiana picket and distribute flyers outside a popular bar and restaurant, Nick’s English Hut, that was near the Indiana University campus. GLF was protesting a sign that the owner had posted in the…

Frank Kameny speech in New York City

Militant activist Franklin Kameny delivers the 100th monthly lecture to the New York Mattachine Society and urges the audience to take a firm stand against the claim that homosexuality is an illness. It is “neither a sickness, a defect, a…

Japanese internment camp poster

Martina Navratilova becomes a U.S. citizen

Czechoslovakian-born tennis champion Martina Navratilova is granted U.S. citizenship. A few days later, the New York Daily News reports that she is a lesbian.

Gerry Studds censured by U.S. House of Representatives

Gerry Studds, a Democrat from Massachusetts, is censured by the House of Representatives because of a consensual sexual relationship with a House page. Studds, who was the first member of Congress to openly acknowledge being gay, was re-elected by…

Reinaldo Arenas

Reinaldo Arenas, Writer

AQE Karl Heinrich Ulrichs pamphlet Vindicta

AQE Karl Heinrich Ulrichs pamphlet Gladius Forens

AQE Karl Heinrich Ulrichs pamphlet Inclusa

AQE Karl Heinrich Ulrichs pamphlet Formatrix

RVPM Augustus Granville Dill Common School and the Negro American

RVPM Edna St. Vincent Millay NBC photo

RVPM Nkoli in doorway photo

The above snapshot of anti-Apartheid activist Simon Tseko Nkoli was taken on August 30, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois.

1972 Democratic Party convention

Jim Foster of California and Madeline Davis of New York become the first openly gay and lesbian delegates to address a national convention of the Democratic Party, which was meeting in Miami. “We come to you affirming our pride,” Foster declared in…

Canadian Prime Minister acknowledges employment ban against homosexuals.

In a speech before the House of Commons, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau publicly acknowledges that homosexuality has in fact prevented federal employees from receiving security clearances to handle classified documents and information and…

Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig, Writer and Feminist Theorist

Joan Biren