Gay History
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Gay History – October 20: ACT-UP Protests the UN, Dr. Evelyn Hooker, and the First Gay Wedding On TV May Surprise You
October 20th. 1958: Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s is published in the November issue of Esquire Magazine. Gay men everywhere…
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Gay History – October 19: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIVINE! (aka Harris Glenn Milstead)
Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine was born to a rather well off socially conservative family on October 19, 1945, at…
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GAY HISTORY – October 18: KKK Foiled In Gay Bar Bombing Plan, Georgia’s Sodomy Apology, and the US Navy’s Explosive Gay Frame-Up
LGBT HISTORY: October 18, 1990: Three white supremacists: are convicted of conspiring to blow up Neighbours Disco a gay bar…
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Gay History – October 17: Montgomery Clift, The Black Lesbian Conference and Liberace
On October 17th. 1920: Actor Montgomery Clift is born in Omaha Nebraska. Clift's performance in 1951's A Place in the Sun is…
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Gay History – October 16: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde and Nazi Germany’s Paragraph 175
October 16, 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880's, Oscar Wilde became…
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Gay History – October 15: Virgil, Foucault, Cole Porter, and Lucille Ball – Lucy, Honey I’m HOMO!
October 15, Luuuuuucy! Honey! I'm HOMO! 1952: Members of the Mattachine Society form One, Inc. to promote gay education and…
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Gay History – October 14, 1977: Anita Bryant Hit In The Face With A “Fruit Pie” And 42 Years Later It’s Still Delicious! [Video]
Today marks one of the most iconic moments in gay history when a gay male activist threw a pie in…
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Gay History – October 13, 1950: Fasten Your Seatbelts “All About Eve” Opened In Theaters
If a singular aspect alone can propel a film to greatness, than perhaps writer-director Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1950 black and white Oscar…
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Gay History – October 11: The Life and Death of Heroic Gay Rights Activist Frank Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011)
In 1957, Frank Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C.…
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October 11 – National Coming Out Day: Learn Its History
National Coming Out Day was founded in 1988 by Robert Eichberg, a psychologist from New Mexico and founder of the personal…
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