High School class photo (#1) of Kiyoshi Kuromiya with name "Steven Kuromiya" printed next to it
Color photo of Kiyoshi Kuromiya standing next to a tall Caucasian male
The French publication, Gai Pied, includes a condom with its issue for this date, despite a law prohibiting the distribution of condoms in the mail. The action signaled a rising awareness of the growing AIDS epidemic in France, and showed the…
Harry Hay, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, Dale Jennings, and Rudi Gernreich meet at Hay’s home in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles to discuss the formation of an organization to liberate “the homosexual minority.” Most had connections to the…
Rock Hudson, actor
RuPaul, entertainer/performer.
After leaving a Catholic seminary in Southern California in 1970, I moved to San Francisco. I had gay friends from the Order who'd already moved to the City; they introduced me to gay San Francisco, Roy Neuner and Michael Alpert. Roy was a…
The magazine, RFD, with the article "Shit" by Carl Wittman
The text of Gay Manifesto by Carl Wittman in the Chicago Seed
The stapled handout, In White America: SDS & Radical Consciousness by Greg Calvert and Carl Davidson
Booklet co-authored by Wittman, called Where It's At: A Research Guide for Community Organizing
The publication, Seminar on Marxism, by Carl Wittman
This is the stapled publication, An Interracial Movement of the Poor? by tom Hayden and Carl Whittman
Photo of Carl Wittman appearing in the Halcyon, the Swarthmore College yearbook, from 1963
An exhibit on the history of The Flame, a gay bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Published originally on OutHistory in 2013.
Photo of Henry walking with Martin Luther King, Jr. after disappointing Convention compromise.
Photograph of Aaron Henry being stopped from entering the Democratic National Convention, 1964
Photo of MFDP delegates occupying seats of the Mississippi Democratic Party at convention, 1964
Photo of an African American civil rights activist being attacked by a police dog
In the election for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Jose Sarria, who worked as a waiter at the Black Cat, a well-known gay bar in San Francisco, and was a much beloved drag entertainer in the city, comes in 9th. Although not enough to get…