U.S. President Truman Creates Loyalty-Security Program

President Truman issues Executive Order 9835 and creates the Loyalty-Security Program. Under the order, officials were permitted to investigate any federal government employee suspected of disloyalty or engaging in subversive activities. This led to…

Nazis arrest Kurt Hiller

Kurt Hiller, a key leader in the movement for sex law reform in Germany, was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis. Hiller managed eventually to escape Germany and flee to Prague and then London, thus surviving the Holocaust.

Zachie Achmat

Zachie Achmat, Racial Justice and AIDS Activist

Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin, Peace and Racial Justice Activist

Baptist Minister blesses a gay relationship.

Reverend Mahan Siler, pastor of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, blesses the same-sex union of Kevin Turner and Steven Churchill. This action provoked a negative response from the Raleigh Baptist Association and the…

Larry Kramer's "1,112 and Counting" published

Larry Kramer publishes his essay, “1,112 and Counting,” in The New York Native. Writing about the AIDS epidemic while it was still in its early stages, he told readers: “If this article doesn’t rouse you to anger, fury, rage, and action, gay men…

Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan, Writer

John Rechy

John Rechy, Writer

CBS Television Airs "The Homosexuals"

CBS television airs The Homosexuals, the first network TV documentary in the U.S. on gay men. Narrated by Mike Wallace, a well-respected newscaster, it featured long segments with psychiatrists who considered homosexuals to be mentally ill, and an…

Nazis Attack Gay Activist

Just five weeks after Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, the SS invades the Berlin apartment of Kurt Hiller, a prominent German gay activist. Hiller is later arrested and sent to a German concentration camp.

Angela Davis 2

Angela Davis 1

Wanda Sykes

Wanda Sykes, Comedian

Jean O'Leary

Jean O'Leary, Activist

Gunn vigil

Booker raises Pride flag

Eyricka Morgan

Eyricka Morgan

Darnell Moore

Darnell Moore

Gays in Newark newspaper

Gays in Newark newspaper

Cory Booker

Cory Booker