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Today In Gay History: Dec 9th, 1985 – N.Y.C. Department of Health Closes the St. Marks Baths
Share this:The New St. Marks Baths was the premiere gay bathhouse in NYC located at 6 St. Marks Place in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City from 1979 to 1985. It claimed to be the largest gay bathhouse in the world with with 230...
Classic Gay Cinema: “OUTRAGEOUS” (1977) Starring: Craig Russell – Watch the FULL Movie – Video
Share this: Outrageous! released on 1977 was one of the first gay-themed films ever to get a widespread theatrical release in North America. It was written and directed by Richard Benner, based on a short story by Margaret Gibson. Outrageous...
Today In Gay History Dec 5, 1640 – 1642: The Bishop Gets Busted and Lesbians In The New World
Share this: 1640 – Bishop John Atherton Hanged for Buggery: The good bishop of Waterford and Lismore in the Church of Ireland was one of the loudest proponents for a new law making homosexuality a capital crime. He then became the second...
1982: While Gay Men Lay Dying The Reagan White House Laughed At AIDS
Share this: David Mixner posted a transcript today of the first time that AIDS was mentioned in the White House during a press briefing. If you want to know the barriers people with HIV/AIDS faced in the early 1980′s just read this transcript...
Today in Gay History – December 1: World AIDS Day, Alvin Ailey and the Lesbians Started It.
Share this: December 1st: 1642 – The General Court of Connecticut adopted a list of 12 capital crimes, including “man lying with man.” The law was based on the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Liberties of 1641. 1901 –...
New Radio Documentary Explores The Gay History of Fire Island: “The Ghosts of Fire Island”
Share this: This weekend a new radio documentary will debut, that will tell the very gay history of Fire Island and its rise to the heights of being the best known mecca in the world.to the devestation that it suffered during the AIDS epidemic. The documentary...
November 27th, 1978 – 35 Years Ago Today Harvey Milk Was Assassinated. Light A Candle for Harvey
Share this: 35 years ago today Harvey Milk, the greatest gay activist of our time was murdered along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. The shooter was Supervisor Dan White, a conservative board member who had campaigned on a platform of law and...
Gay Pilgrims In 1600′s Plymouth MA? The Turkeys Weren’t The Only Ones Getting Stuffed.
Share this: In the summer of 1637, two working men at the English colony at Plymouth faced the possibility of execution, convicted of what was said to be a grave moral crime. John Alexander and Thomas Roberts had been caught in a homosexual relationship. Plimoth Plantation...
The Very Gay History of the Almost Lost Tradition of the Sunday Tea Dance
Share this: Many gay men under the age of 30 are totally clueless of almost lost tradition of the Sunday Tea Dance. (A tradition that really must be brought back.) So here’s a little history primer on the tradition of the “Sunday T-dance”...
