Excerpt of FBI file.
Excerpt of FBI file.
Excerpt of FBI file.
Excerpt of FBI file.
Excerpt of FBI file.
Excerpt of FBI file.
Excerpt of FBI file.
The Fifth Annual Lesbian Writers Conference convenes in Chicago. The opening keynote address was delivered by Paula Christian, a popular “pulp novelist” of the 1950s and 1960s known for novels such as The Edge of Twilight and This Side of Love. …
Police in Houston Texas arrest John Lawrence and Tyrone Garner on charges of having sex in violation of the state’s Homosexual Conduct law. The case eventually led in 2003 to a Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v.Texas, that declared all state sodomy…
Police in San Francisco raid the Alamo Club, a popular lesbian bar, and arrest 36 women on charges of frequenting a house of ill repute. Most of the women arrested pleaded guilty. The police action and the women’s response led the year-old…
In a U.S. federal prison in Kentucky because of his refusal as a pacifist to join the military in World War II, Bayard Rustin is placed in isolation by prison officials who accuse him of sexual misconduct. Rustin was preparing to launch a strike of…
Time magazine features on its cover a picture of Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, with the caption “I Am a Homosexual: The Gay Drive for Acceptance.” Matlovich was challenging the military’s longstanding policy of excluding gays, lesbians, and…
David Wojnarowicz, Artist and AIDS Activist
Bettina Aptheker, Activist, Writer, Teacher
Alison Bechdel, Writer and Cartoonist
Jane Addams, Social Justice Activist
Sylvester, Singer and Performer
Edward Carpenter, Writer and Activist
Christopher Isherwood, Writer
The Wolfenden Report is released in Great Britain. Named after Sir John Wolfenden, who chaired the committee appointed by the British Home Secretary, the Report recommended that laws criminalizing consensual sex in private between adults be…