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The Borough
The Borough. Image from NewRaleigh.com.
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Tell Us Your Story: The 1987 March on Washington
This exhibit is a collection of stories contributed by OutHistory users. To be included in the exhibit, tell us your story of the 1987 March on Washington.
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Tell Us Your Story: My First Pride March
This exhibit is a collection of stories contributed by OutHistory users. To be included in the exhibit, tell us the story of your first Pride March.
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Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo, actress
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Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France
[ID: The cover for Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France. The subtitle is depicted at the top of the book in a black serif font. Below the subtitle is a black top hat. Underneath the top hat is the title, which is depicted…
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Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris
[ID: The cover for Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris by William A. Peniston, PhD. At the top of the cover is a transparent gray photograph of a building, which fades out as it travels down the cover.…
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Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women
[ID: The cover for Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp. The title and author’s name are depicted at the top of the cover atop an illustration of brown and dark red fabric above a pair of columns and an arch. Between…
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Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret
[ID: The cover for Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret by Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor. The title is depicted in a white, illuminated, italic serif font on an abstract black, swirling shape. Around the black abstract shape is a red background with…
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City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972
[ID: The cover of the second edition of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 by Marc Stein. On the left side of the cover, the title is depicted in a purple serif font on a cream background. Below it is a…
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Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement.
[ID: The cover for the second edition of Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Marc Stein. At the top of the cover is the name of the book series, American Social and Political Movements of the Twentieth Century, written in black all capital…
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And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida’s Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers
[Image description: a book cover of Karen L. Graves’s And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida’s Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers. The title is presented in a yellow font meant to resemble chalk or crayon writing, while the subtitle is presented in…
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San Francisco Clergy Release "A Brief of Injustices," Attacking Police Abuse of Gays and Lesbians.
The Council on Religion and the Homosexual, which was a group of clergy in San Francisco, releases a report, “A Brief of Injustices,” that condemns society’s treatment of homosexuals. The report detailed a range of police abuses toward the gay and…
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Dr. Howard Brown comes out as gay
Dr. Howard Brown, a former Commissioner of Health for New York City, comes out in a speech to several hundred doctors at a symposium in New Jersey. Such a revelation by a public figure was still very rare in 1973, and Brown’s coming out later…
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The Vatican Releases a Document on Homosexuality
The Vatican releases a document, “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,” prepared by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It described the inclination to homosexual activity as “an objective disorder” and…
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The Captive, a play, opens in New York City.
The Captive, by the French writer Edouard Bourdet, opens on Broadway in New York. This drama about a lesbian relationship, described by one reviewer as “twisted” and “loathsome,” leads to several months of public controversy and passage by the New…
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Daughters of Bilitis founded
A group of eight women, including Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, begin meeting in San Francisco, to form a lesbian social club. They name their organization the Daughters of Bilitis and it quickly evolves into a lesbian rights organization that…
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New York's 1973 Pride March
I had just graduated from college in June 1970 and was living in Manhattan. I knew about the Stonewall riots the year before, and I had heard that a march and demonstration were going to be held at the end of June, going from Christopher Street to…
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Ma Rainey's Music
The Chicago Defender, one of the major African-American newspapers in the U.S., runs a full-page ad for Ma Rainey’s recording of “Prove It On Me Blues,” a song that openly proclaims the love of women for other women. The ad portrays Ma Rainey…
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Legends
Legends Nightclub Complex
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Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Coca-Cola bottling company. Image from the Albert Barden Collection, North Carolina State Archives.