Gay History
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Gay History – June 20, 1951: Mattachine Society Officially Adopts It’s “Missions and Purposes”
On July 20, 1951 The Mattachine Society wrote and adopted it's “Missions and Purposes,” and marked it “confidential” out of…
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Gay History – July 19, 1993: President Bill Clinton Unveils Disastrous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy
July 19, 1993 -President Bill Clinton Unveils “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy: This new policy according to Clinton was as…
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Forgotten Gay History – July 1943: Gay Resistance Fighters Executed By The Nazis “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!”
Dutch painter and writer Willem Arondeus during World War II hatched a plan to burn the Bevolkingsregister which housed the citizen registration…
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Gay History – July 15, 1962: New York’s WBAI Radio Broadcasts Talk Show Featuring Eight Gay Men
Early in 1962, WBAI New York’s listener-supported "progressive radio station"which still exists today, aired an hour-long special, “The Homosexual In America.”
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Gay WWII Codebreaker Alan Turing to Be On UK £50 Note
Alan Turing, the scientist known for helping crack the Enigma code during the second world war and pioneering the modern…
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Gay History: Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954)
Bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become not only an international icon for the power and intensity of her art,…
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – Man’s Country Bathhouse NYC (1970’s) – Video
Man's Country was a wildly popular bathhouse chain that had branches in New York City and Chicago in the 1970's…
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Gay History – July 12, 1972: First Gay Delegates Speak at the Democratic National Convention. Sort Of….
On July 12, 1972 gay rights and political activist James Foster was added to the list of speakers at the 1972…
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Happy Birthday Vito Russo – Vito Remembered: “Why We Fight.”
Vito Russo (July 11, 1946 – November 7, 1990),was a gay activist, film historian, author, and the co-founder of the…
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Gay History – July 11, 1966: Twenty-Six Oklahoma City Teachers Forced to Resign For Being Gay
On July 11th, 1966, Oklahoma County Attorney Curtis Harris revealed that 26 teachers and school administrators in Oklahoma City had…
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