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GLF and BPP
GLFers Bob Kohler and Billy take part in a Black Panther rally. November 1, 1969. Copyright Ellen Shumsky. Courtesy of the photographer.
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Pig in Queens Clothing
Putting a campy spin on New Left rhetoric, the cartoon also points to a very real fear among GLFers--and many activists of the period--that FBI informants had infiltrated their group. Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 4. Courtesy of the Lesbian Herstory…
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GLF Dance
A flier for a GLF dance. Courtesy of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
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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…