Gay History
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August 8, 1983: The Legacy of Gay AIDS Activist and “KS Poster Boy” Bobbi Campbell
On this day, August 8, 1983 Bobbi Campbell, and his partner Bobby Hilliard, became the faces of the deadly plague…
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Gay History – August 7, 1931: American Solider Found Guilty of Sodomy Sent To Alcatraz Prison
Clyde Findell Hicks was born in Oak Grove, Durham, North Carolina on September 5, 1910. On April 13, 1930 at…
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Gay History – August, 1673: Plymouth Colony Convicts Two Men Of “Spending their seed one upon another”
On August 6, 1673 Plymouth Colony convicted two men of “Lewd Behavior and Unclean Carriage”.
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Gay History – August 5, 1970: NYC Drops Charges Against The Gay Activists Alliance “Rockefeller Five”.
The Gay Activists Alliance was most active from 1970 to 1974. One of their most well known protests was a…
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Gay History – 1962: The Shocking Mansfield, Ohio Gay Sex Sting – Rare NSWF Video
In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department set up a sex sting by filming men having sex…
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Gay History – August 1970: The Gay Activist Alliance and Gay Liberation Front Battle the NYPD in the “Forgotten Riot”
If you think the Stonewall Riots was the only protest in New York City over police harassment in the gay…
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Gay History – August 2, 1988: Ronald Reagan Orders Ban on Discrimination Against People With AIDS. But Only For A Certain Few
On August 2nd, 1988 on a recommendation from a 13-member President’s Commission On the HIV Epidemic, President Ronald Reagan ordered a…
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Gay History – August 1971: Newsweek Magazine Publishes “The Militant Homosexual” – READ THE FULL ARTICLE
A little over two years after the Stonewall riots in NYC's Greenwich Village on August 23rd, 1971, Newsweek’magazine published an article titled “The Militant…
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Gay History – July 29: The Village People, Jerome Robbins, and the Murder of John O’Connell in San Francisco
July 29, 1905: Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-1961), in Jonkoping, Sweden. He died in a…
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Gay History – July 27, 1967: Queen Elizabeth II Formally Decriminalizes Homosexuality in the United Kingdom
On this day in July 1967, just under 2 years before the Stonewall Riots in the United States – The Sexual Offences…
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