The Stonewall Inn located at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village in 1969 was owned by the infamous Mafia Genovese family. In 1966, three members of the famous Mafia family...
This video is treasure. It is the only existing footage of the original 1970 “Christopher Street Liberation Day,” the year after the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion erupted. It is archival footage of a long...
After decades of lobbying, victims and activists hailed a triumph in the struggle to clear the names of gay men who lived with a criminal record under article (Paragraph) 175 of the German penal...
On June 24th, 1973 the final day of Pride Weekend, thirty-two lives were lost when an arsonist set fire to the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans, Louisiana. The UpStairs Lounge fire is the...
A brutal murder that took place nearly four decades ago in San Francisco shocked and catalyzed that city’s gay community and resulted in exposing the mostly hidden to the public- eye violence against gay...
A week ahead of the Stonewall Riots’ 48th. anniversary, Google has announced a $1 million donation to the LGBT Community Center of New York to digitize the story of the Stonewall Riots. Google made...
June 20, 1975 Drummer Magazine the iconic granddaddy of gay leather magazines hits the streets on June 20th. 1975. Founding editors John H. Embry and Jeanne Barney shared a vision in its original format geared to leather stories but later the magazine became...
June 19, 1983 – In Lynchburg, Virginia, hate-monger Jerry Falwell told his followers that “AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals, it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.” Falwell founded...
