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Lorraine Hansberry: An Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain by Judith Smith
An interview with a documentary filmmaker who received a National Endowement for the Humanities grant in support of the first full-length documentary feature on Lorraine Hansberry. The interview was conducted by a consulting humanities scholar on the…
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Family Protection Act introduced in US Senate
Roger Jepsen, an Iowa Republican, introduces into the US Senate a bill titled The Family Protection Act. Among its provisions, the bill would have denied all federal funds, including Social Security and veteran benefits, to anyone who was gay,…
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First performance of the play Coming Out!
Coming Out!, a play by Jonathan Ned Katz, had its first performance at The Firehouse, the headquarters of the Gay Activists Alliance in Manhattan. With dialogue drawn entirely from historical documents, Coming Out! brought LGBT history alive in a…
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Protest March in Sao Paolo
After the police arrest over 1500 gay men, transwomen, and prostitutes in downtown Sao Paolo as part of a “clean up” effort, 500 people publicly demonstrate to protest the police action. Marching through the streets of the city, they chanted “Down…
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A member of President Reagan's cabinet speaks out on AIDS.
At the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Denver, Colorado, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler became the first member of Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet to deliver a speech on AIDS. In her speech, she acknowledged “the excellent work…
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Voters repeal gay rights law
Voters in Dade County, Florida overwhelmingly approve a ballot measure to repeal the county’s gay rights ordinance that prohibited discrimination. The campaign, led by former beauty queen and singer Anita Bryant, leads to similar successful…
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First report on AIDS in the United States
In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control in the United States describes five cases of gay men in Los Angeles suffering from “pneumocystis pneumonia.” This proved to be the first report on what would later be…
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Pippa Holloway MOW
Pippa Holloway and friend at the 1987 March on Washington
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film Director and Actor
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Christine Jorgensen
Christine Jorgensen, Transgender Pioneer
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First National Convention of Daughter of Bilitis
The first national convention of the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian rights organization, opens in San Francisco. Two hundred women attend from around the United States, making it the largest public gathering of lesbians in the U.S. up until that…
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk, Politician and Activist
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Peter Gomes
Peter Gomes, Theologian and Minister
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Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953, by Jonathan Ned Katz
A 1974 interview with Harry Hay about founding the Mattachine Society in California.
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Scientific-Humanitarian Committee Formed in Berlin
Magnus Hirschfeld and a small group of others in Berlin founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, which has been described as “the first homosexual emancipation organization.” Over the next generation, it became the most important gay and…
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Lesbian Activism in Paris
At the “Days of Denunciation of Crimes Committed Against Women,” a conference in Paris organized by the French women’s liberation movement, a group of lesbians seized the stage and chanted, “We are dykes, lesbians, depraved and foul. We love other…
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Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke, Poet and Educator.
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Nazi Book Burning in Berlin
In Berlin, Nazis seize over 10,000 books from the library of the Institute of Sexual Science and burn them publicly. They also throw into the fire a bust of Magnus Hirschfeld, one of the most public leaders of the gay movement in pre-Nazi Germany.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Intellectual
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Del Martin
Del Martin, Activist