“ That’s my perception of what dance should be—a popular form, wrenched from the hands of the elite” (Ailey, 101).
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
E. Lynn Harris
E. Lynn Harris
Beauford Delaney self portrait
Beauford Delaney
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
Marlon Riggs, Filmmaker
A photo of "Carl Schlegel. Pastor" is featured in a booklet issued on the opening of a new building of the German Reformed Church, in New York City, in 1898.[2]
The proselytizing of one of the earliest U.S. homosexual emancipation activists, the Rev. Carl Schlegel, was documented for the first time and published June 1, 2019, on OutHistory to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Last edit:…
Members of the Gay Liberation Front march on City Hall in New Orleans to protest police entrapment and harassment, the first such public demonstration in the state of Louisiana. The GLF followed up on this action the next month when it held a…
Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman named to the Academie Francaise, the most prestigious literary society in France. Her writing, including the widely acclaimed novel, Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), often dealt with gay themes and characters.…
Angela Davis, Activist, Writer, Educator
Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian, Actor, TV Host
Writer and Cultural Critic
Edmund White, Writer