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Audre Lorde 2
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde 1
Audre Lorde
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Marlon Riggs
Marlon Riggs, Filmmaker
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Carl Schlegel
A photo of "Carl Schlegel. Pastor" is featured in a booklet issued on the opening of a new building of the German Reformed Church, in New York City, in 1898.[2]
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Carl Schlegel: Pioneering U.S. Gay Activist, 1906-1907, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The proselytizing of one of the earliest U.S. homosexual emancipation activists, the Rev. Carl Schlegel, was documented for the first time and published June 1, 2019, on OutHistory to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Last edit:…
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Gay Liberationists demonstrate in New Orleans
Members of the Gay Liberation Front march on City Hall in New Orleans to protest police entrapment and harassment, the first such public demonstration in the state of Louisiana. The GLF followed up on this action the next month when it held a…
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Marguerite Yourcenar named to the Academie Francaise.
Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman named to the Academie Francaise, the most prestigious literary society in France. Her writing, including the widely acclaimed novel, Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), often dealt with gay themes and characters.…
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Angela Davis
Angela Davis, Activist, Writer, Educator
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Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian, Actor, TV Host
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Susan Sontag
Writer and Cultural Critic
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Edmund White
Edmund White, Writer
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Anti-Discrimination Law Passed in Dade County, Florida
The Dade County Commission in South Florida passes a law banning discrimination in employment and in housing based on “sexual or affectional preference.” Singer-celebrity Anita Bryant, who attended the legislative session, told a reporter afterward…
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First Issue of Arcadie Published in France
Andre Baudry, a former seminarian living in Paris, publishes the first issue of Arcadie, a homophile magazine. Mailed to subscribers in a discreet covering, Arcadie will continue publication until 1982 and builds a mailing list of 30,000…
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US Supreme Court Rules Gay Publication Not Obscene
In the case of One, Inc. v. Otto K. Olesen, Postmaster of Los Angeles, the United States Supreme Court unanimously overturns a set of rulings by lower courts that had supported the Post Office seizure of the gay magazine ONE on charges it was…
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Horses
Arthur Evans and other members of the Gay Activists Alliance at a zap at City Hall. June 25, 1971. Photograph by Richard C. Wandel. Courtesy of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center National History Archive.
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Come Out Masthead
The masthead on the first issue of the paper, published November 14, 1969. Reprinted with the permission of Perry Brass.
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Naked CSLD
Marchers relax in Central Park. Photograph by Richard C. Wandel. Courtesy of the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center National History Archive.
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CSLD March, 1970
Image taken from Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 7. Courtesy of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
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Flaming Faggots
Dansky and Pitchford were originally part of a collective called The Flaming Faggots. The group dedicated itself to combating sexism, and criticized the machismo, misogyny, and anti-gay attitudes of some straight male activists. The Flaming Faggots…
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Hey Man
An early call to action: Steven Dansky's "Hey Man," first published in Come Out! in the summer of 1970, urged gay men to confront their sexism and reconceive of their masculinity. Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 8. Image courtesy of the…