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First GLF Banner
The GLF Banner makes its first appearance at an action in Sheridan Square. December 1969. Copyright Ellen Shumsky. Courtesy of the photographer.
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Gay Liberation Meets the Shrinks
GLFers and other gay liberationists targeted psychiatry as a primary site of their oppression. Their efforts helped to push the American Psychiatric Association to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973. Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 6.…
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GLF at CSLD March
GLFers at the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March. June 28, 1970. Copyright Ellen Shumsky. Courtesy of the Photographer.
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God is Gay
A Gay Liberation Front demonstration at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Fall 1970. Photograph by Richard C. Wandel. Courtesy of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center National History Archive.
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Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1972
Christopher Street Liberation Day March. June 25, 1972. Copyright Ellen Shumsky. Courtesy of the photographer.
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First Christopher Street Liberation Day March
The first Christopher Street Liberation Day March. June 28, 1970. Copyright Ellen Shumsky. Courtesy of the photographer.
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
[Image description: A book cover of Lillian Faderman’s Surpassing the Love of Men that depicts white text on a black background in an hourglass shape with a black and white image in the center. Each line of text is separated by a white line. From top…
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. By Lillian Faderman.
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Esther Burr
Esther Burr (painting).
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Jean Bernard Bossu
Jean Bernard Bossu
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French Gay Activist Comes Out
An article titled “The Revolution of Homosexuals” appears in Le Nouvel Observateur, a widely read French weekly news magazine. The author, Guy Hocquenghem, was a student radical of the 1960s, and in the article he came out and described his life as…
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Deborah Sampson's Identity Revealed
The New York Gazette reveals that a woman named Deborah Sampson had successfully passed as a man named “Robert Shurtliff” and served in the American army for nearly three years. “She was a remarkably vigilant solider on her post,” it reported, and…
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Harry Benjamin
Harry Benjamin, Doctor and Sexologist
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David Bowie
David Bowie, Musician and Rock Star
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Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Arzner, Film Director
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Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey, choreographer and dancer
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Kinsey Sex Study Is Published
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, by Dr. Alfred Kinsey, is published in the United States. The 804-page scientific study quickly became a major best-seller and was widely discussed in the press. Kinsey became a well-known figure with almost…
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Law Reform in Switzerland
Switzerland adopts a uniform code of criminal law for the entire nation. As part of the revision of criminal law, homosexual acts between consenting adults in private were decriminalized throughout Switzerland for the first time.
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The film Philadelphia is released.
The film Philadelphia is released. It tells the story of a gay lawyer (Tom Hanks) who is fired by his firm because he has AIDS, and the lawyer (Denzel Washington) who defends him and, in the process, has to face and acknowledge his own homophobia. …
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Billy Tipton
Billy Tipton, Jazz Musician