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Le Bistro Ad
Le Bistro ad in Panorama Magazine 08/02/1969
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Boys in the Band
Cast members from Boys in the Band at Le Bistro, from Panorama Magazine 08/29/1969
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John Waters
John Waters, Filmmaker
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Gay Liberation Dance in Chicago
Chicago Gay Liberation holds a dance at the Chicago Coliseum, a huge public space that was once the site of professional hockey and basketball games as well as political conventions. Activists were challenging the police practice of arresting on…
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Bayard Rustin testifies for a gay rights bill in NYC
Bayard Rustin, the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and an internationally known peace activist, testifies before the General Welfare Committee of the New York City Council in favor of a bill that would ban discrimination based on sexual…
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Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill, Poet
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Howard Brown
Howard Brown, Doctor and Public Health Activist
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Charles Ludlam
Charles Ludlam, Actor, Playwright, Director
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Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison, Writer
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First Public Meeting of Gays and Lesbians in South Africa
The Homosexual Law Reform Fund convenes the first public meeting in South Africa of gays and lesbians. The group was formed, and the meeting in a Johannesburg suburb was called, in response to a legislative proposal to make being gay or lesbian in…
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U.S. Psychiatrists Confirm End of Sickness Classification
The American Psychiatric Association announces the results of a referendum of its members about whether or not to endorse the decision of its Board of Trustees to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The referendum had been pushed…
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Gay Academic Union forms in New York City
The first meeting of what becomes the Gay Academic Union takes place in New York City when a few faculty, graduate students, and writers meet to discuss how history and other kinds of research could benefit the gay liberation movement. Over the next…
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Gay History in Nevada and Las Vegas, 1969-2009, by Dennis McBride, Crystal Van Dee, and Paul Ershler
The Las Vegas OutHistory project. This exhibit was a winner of OutHistory's 2010 Since Stonewall community history contest!
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Colorado's first openly gay publication
As a college student Phil Price publishes out of his parents’ basement the inaugural issue of Out Front, Colorado's first openly gay publication. He adopts the slogan "There's no turning back!" Out Front continues to publish in…
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ACT UP demonstrates on Wall Street
ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) converges on Wall Street in New York City to stage its first major demonstration. Exposing the ties between the corporate pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, demonstrators blocked…
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Anti-discrimination bill introduced into U.S. Congress
At a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Representative Bella Abzug, along with other members of Congress and gay and lesbian activists, announces that HR 5452 has been introduced in Congress with 24 sponsors. The bill proposed to outlaw…
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Barney Frank
Barney Frank, Elected Official
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Alberta Hunter
Alberta Hunter, Singer and Performer
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Jane Rule
Jane Rule, Novelist
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Margarethe Cammermeyer
Margarethe Cammermeyer, Military Officer and Activist