Gay History
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Coretta Scott King: “Make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”
Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many…
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Gay History – January 20; 1979: Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” Released. Five Facts You Didn’t Know
Now we all know that Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" has been the quintessential anthem for the gay community since…
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Gay History – January 19th: Alexander Woolcott, Janis Joplin, and Hubert Humphrey.
January 19, 1976 – Vice President Hubert Humphrey becomes one of the first nationally known politicians to endorse gay and…
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Gay History – January 18: The Gay King of America, Betty Berzon, An American Family, Anita Bryant, and The L Word
January 18, 1977 – In Miami, Florida: Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen, launches a nationwide crusade against gay and…
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Remembering Crisco Disco, NYC (Late 1970’s – Mid 1980’s)
Opened in the late 1970's. Crisco's as it was called was an after-hours, milti-floor club in an old converted warehouse…
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Gay History – January 7, 1949: 4 Men Plead Guilty To “Homosexual Offenses” After Gay Witch Hunt at University of Missouri
Via the Associated Press: Columbia, Mo., Jan 7. (AP). Four men pleaded guilty yesterday to statutory charges and were placed on…
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Fictional Gay History – January 6th, 1854: Happy Birthday Sherlock! – The Mysterious Gay Case of Sherlock Holmes & Watson
January 6, 1854 – On this is the date, Arthur Conan Doyle tells us his most famous character Sherlock Holmes was…
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Gay History: January 4th. – Marsden Hartley’s Cubism , Saskatchewan, and After Stonewall
January 4, 1877 – Marsden Hartley the American painter, poet, and essayist. is born in Lewiston, Maine. Hartley was in Paris…
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Gay History – January 3, 1752: Gay Swiss Historian Johannes von Müller Born
Johannes von Müller (1752-1809). Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Müller was the most important Swiss historian of the 18th century.
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Gay History – January 2, 1857: Martha Carey Thomas Feminist Lesbian Educator and Suffragist Born
Martha Carey Thomas was born in Baltimore, Maryland January 2, 1857. Thomas an American educator and suffragist went on to become…
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