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RVPM Dill Cover Morals and Manners
Cover of Morals and manners among Negro Americans by WEB Dubois and Augustus Granville Dill
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Ruth Peter Worth, 1915 -1997, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Ruth Peter Worth, originally Ruth Wertheimer, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor, a U.S. immigrant, a lesbian, and a long-time home owner in Cherry Grove, Fire Island, New York. Published originally on OutHistory in 2011.
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American Psychiatric Association Victory!
The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association votes to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. This action, which eliminated the classification of homosexuality as a disease, followed several years of…
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Gay Raider Disrupts the CBS Evening News
Mark Segal, a member of the Gay Raiders, a Philadelphia gay liberation group, disrupts Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening News and forces the nationally televised show to black out for a few seconds. Segal was protesting CBS censorship of gay-related…
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Willa Cather
Willa Cather, Writer.
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Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho, Comedian
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Allan Berube
Allan Berube, Historian
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first protease inhibitor to treat people infected with HIV
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first protease inhibitor drug for the treatment of HIV infection. Approval of other protease inhibitors quickly followed. The drugs proved to be a milestone in the history of the AIDS epidemic…
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The first domestic partnership law in the U.S. is adopted in Berkeley California.
The city of Berkeley California extends spousal benefits to the same-sex partners of city employees. It is the first city or county in the U.S. to establish “domestic partnership” benefits, as they came to be called. Two years earlier, Mayor Diane…
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Dr. Joycelyn Elders speaks at UN Conference on AIDS
Attending a UN Conference on AIDS, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders is asked whether more explicit discussion of masturbation as a way to reduce the spread of the HIV-virus might slow the epidemic. Masturbation is “a part of human sexuality”…
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Christine Jorgensen makes headlines in New York City
The New York Daily News breaks the story of Christine Jorgensen’s sex change (from male to female) on their front page with the headline “Ex-GI becomes blonde bombshell.” This was the first highly publicized case in the United States of a gender…
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Gay Liberation Protest in London
London’s Gay Liberation Front holds its first public demonstration to protest police harassment and arresting of gay men on public indecency charges. Holding hands and chanting gay power slogans, the demonstrators marched to Highbury Fields where…
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Jack, Gore, and Tennessee
John F. Kennedy skeet shooting with Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams, Palm Beach, 1958.
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Jack and Lem
John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings, horsing around in the snow at Choate.
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Looking Out of the Frame: Camelot’s Gay Court, 1933-1963, by Claire Bond Potter
President John F. Kennedy was famous for his vivid, and some might say almost compulsive, heterosexuality. But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men. First published on OutHistory in 2013.
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Photo of Peter Worth by Betsy Haight
Photo of Peter Worth by Betsy Haight.
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Worth's Passport Photo
Worth's Passport Photo
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Billy Strayhorn
Billy Strayhorn Birthday Bio
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Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown, Writer
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Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King, Athlete