Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens

Alexander Hamilton

John Laurens

Portrait of John Laurens

Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens, 1779-1782, by Jonathan Ned Katz

An exhibit on eighteenth century U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and his relationship with John Laurens. Multiple historians consider how to interpret the intimacy between Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens during the American Revolution.…

M. Carey Thomas

M. Carey Thomas, Feminist Educator

Dean Martin: "Pretty Baby." 1962

Composed by Tony Jackson, Dean Martin performs "Pretty Baby"

Edith Ellis in Chicago

In Chicago, Edith Ellis, the lesbian wife of the British sexologist Havelock Ellis, presents a public lecture at Orchestra Hall consisting of two essays, “Masculinism and Feminism” and “Sexuality and Eugenics.” Her lecture is among the earliest…

Police raid in South Africa

A headline in the Rand Daily Mail, a major South African newspaper, announces “350 in Mass Sex Orgy!” The article described a large gay party raided by the police in a suburb of Johannesburg. The incident led to proposals by the South African…

Alice Mitchell Murders Freda Ward in Memphis, 1892

On January 25, 1892, on a riverfront railroad track, in Memphis, Tennessee, Alice Mitchell slit the throat of Freda Ward. Mitchell explained: "I killed Freda because I loved her, and she refused to marry me." The murder and subsequent trial…

Williams murder, Charleston News, 2/25/1895

Charleston News & Courier (Charleston,SC), February 25, 1892, page 1.

Freda Ward picture 2

Freda Ward picture

Alice Mitchell picture

Picture that accompanies a newspaper article about Mitchell's murder of Ward.

Lindquist,_Images of Alice_[Mitchell].pdf

DugganMitchell

Lisa Duggan essay on Alice Mitchell murder of Freda Ward

Ada Bello (196?)

Homos in Revolt 2.200dpi,jpeg

Life magazine spread, second page, of Dec. 31, 1971

Homos in Revolt 1.200dpi

First page of Life magazine spread of Dec. 31, 1971.

annual reminder 1965 (4)

radnor raid detail