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Polish Activist Publishes Manifesto
Polish gay activist Krzysztof Darski publishes a page-long article in the national weekly magazine, Polityka. Writing frankly about the situation faced by gays in Poland, he described them as “ridiculed and pushed to the edge of society,…
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British film, Victim, denied Hollywood approval.
The British film, Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde, is denied a seal of approval from Hollywood’s Motion Picture Production Code Administration. The film, which openly advocated the repeal of laws criminalizing homosexual behavior between consenting…
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Elaine Noble Elected in Massachusetts
Elaine Noble is elected to the state legislature in Massachusetts as a representative from a district in Boston. Noble was the first openly LGBT candidate elected to a state legislative position. Her election encouraged other candidates to run for…
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Protest Against Media Bias
Several dozen activists from the Gay Activists Alliance in New York City conduct a sit-in at the offices of Harper’s, a prominent nationally circulated monthly magazine. The previous month, Harper’s had run a cover story by Joseph Epstein who wrote,…
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Cheryl Clarke 2
Poet and scholar Cheryl Clarke
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Rustin at Podium
Bayard Rustin at the podium during the March on Washington
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Rustin in Office
Bayard Rustin in his office, showing a map of the March on Washington.
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Harper's and the Calamus Poems
Harper's Weekly newspaper, May 5, 1860, for the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass debuting the Calamus poems
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Walt Whitman, 1871
Carte de visite photograph of Walt Whitman, 1871
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Berdache
Print of “Dance to the Berdashe” by George Catlin from the 1903 edition of his North American Indians. Written 1832-1839.
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A.E. Dickinson
Advertisement showing Anna Dickinson
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Anthony and Stanton, circa 1871
Photograph, circa 1871, of suffrage-leaders Susan B. Anthony and white-haired Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Riding for Life
Illustration from Sarah Emma Edmonds' Civil War memoirs, 1865
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Sarah Edmonds, 1965
Illustration from Sarah Emma Edmonds' Civil War memoirs, 1865
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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
Title page from Sarah Emma Edmonds' Civil War memoirs, 1865
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California Miners, 1891
Print from the article “Pioneer Mining in California” in The Century Magazine, May 1891
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Civil War Soldier
Civil War soldier carte de visite photograph, taken during 1861-1865
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Fredrick Douglass, 1855
Frontis portrait of Frederick Douglass from his autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855
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Rose Cleveland, 1885
Frontis portrait of Rose Elizabeth Cleveland from George Eliot's Poetry and Other Studies by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland; New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885
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The Port Folio
A copy of the journal, The Port Folio, 1803, edited by Joseph Dennie.