Yellow leaflet titled Provisional Platform of the Free Speech Movement
A dark blue circular button with white text that reads “FREE SPEECH” on the top part of the button. The acronym “F.S.M.” (presumably for Free Speech Movement) appears on the bottom of the button. Button actual size is 1".
Photo of Bettina Aptheker receiving cake with a saw in it
Worth's U.S. Naturalization Document Using Name "Ruth Peter Worth"
Inside page of Reno v. ACLU Brief of Appellees
Cover of the Brief of Appellees from the US Supreme Court ACLU case involving Kuromiya, 1996
High school photo (#2) of Kiyoshi Kuromiya
The inaugural conference of the Gay Academic Union opens at John Jay College in New York City. It was the first national gathering in the U.S. of a broad range of LGBT professors, graduate students, writers, and independent researchers, with over…
Craig Rodwell opens the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the nation’s first gay and lesbian bookstore, on Mercer Street in NYC, declaring it “a book shop for the homophile movement.” Rodwell later moved the store to Christopher Street, just a block…
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