Pippa Holloway and friend at the 1987 March on Washington
Film Director and Actor
Christine Jorgensen, Transgender Pioneer
The first national convention of the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian rights organization, opens in San Francisco. Two hundred women attend from around the United States, making it the largest public gathering of lesbians in the U.S. up until that…
Harvey Milk, Politician and Activist
Peter Gomes, Theologian and Minister
A 1974 interview with Harry Hay about founding the Mattachine Society in California.
Magnus Hirschfeld and a small group of others in Berlin founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, which has been described as “the first homosexual emancipation organization.” Over the next generation, it became the most important gay and…
At the “Days of Denunciation of Crimes Committed Against Women,” a conference in Paris organized by the French women’s liberation movement, a group of lesbians seized the stage and chanted, “We are dykes, lesbians, depraved and foul. We love other…
Cheryl Clarke, Poet and Educator.
In Berlin, Nazis seize over 10,000 books from the library of the Institute of Sexual Science and burn them publicly. They also throw into the fire a bust of Magnus Hirschfeld, one of the most public leaders of the gay movement in pre-Nazi Germany.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Intellectual
Del Martin, Activist
Audio recording of Kenny Kerr
Las Vegas Sun, September 27, 1985, 1C
Letter from Assemblyman John Bonaventura expressing his views on gay rights, 06/05/1993
This is a digital representation of a 11/07/2002 Dennis McBride journal entry on amending the Nevada Constitution
This is a digital representation of the 10/08/2000 Dennis McBride journal entry on stealing CPM signs in Reno and the first CPM radio spot.
This is a digital representation of a 09/11/2000 Dennis McBride journal entry about Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference.
This is a digital representation of a 08/29/2000 Denis McBride journal entry on the first Equal Rights Nevada house party fundraiser at the home of Paul and Lori Brown