Gay History
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Gay History – February 22: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Andy Warhol Dies, and Roy Cohn’s Birthday at Studio 54
February 22nd. 1892: Popular openly bisexual poet Edna St. Vincent Millay is born. Milay received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the…
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Gay History – February 20, 1927: Roy Cohn The Most Evil, Self Loathing Closet Case In History Born
Donald Trump prized Roy Cohn’s friendship and his reputation for aggression. According to a New York Times profile a quarter-century…
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Gay History – February 18, 1895: Oscar Wilde Is Accused of Being A “Sodomite”
On this day in 1895, British playwright Oscar Wilde was dining at the Albermarle Club in London when the Marquess of Queensbury…
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Gay History – February 14: Forgotten Gay Hero Don Slater and David Bowie Snubs The Gay Liberation Front
Gay History - February 14: Forgotten Gay Hero Don Slater. Frustrated and impatient with the way the Mattachine Society was getting…
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Gay History – February 12, 1976: Actor Sal Mineo Murdered In West Hollywood
On the night of February 12, 1976, actor Sal Mineo returned home following a rehearsal for the play P.S. Your Cat Is…
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Gay History – February 9: Irish Poet Brendan Behan, Archie Bunker’s Gay Bud, and Jerry Falwell Outs A Teletubby
February 9, 1999 - The leader of the "moral majority" and founder of the anti-gay hate bastion Liberty Universality the…
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It’s Ronald Reagan’s Birthday: The Hateful Legacy of Ronald Reagan Who Let Gay Men Die In The Name Of “God”
As Republicans and Tea Party members remember and celebrate the revisionist life history of Ronald Reagan on what would be his 107th birthday…
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Gay History – READ: The Gay Revolutionary a.k.a. The Gay Manifesto by Michael Swift – 1987
n February of 1987, a satirical article by Michael Swift appeared in New York City's Gay Community News titled "The…
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Canada’s Stonewall – February 5, 1981: Toronto’s Brutal “Operation Soap” Bathhouse Raids, Over 300 Gay Men Arrested
“We ended up in the shower room and we were all told to strip… But I think one of the…
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Gay History – February 1: Tom of Finland, Robert Opel and Tennessee Williams Terrorized in Key West
Tennessee Williams' life now on Key West in a way resembles the plot of one of his plays: an injured…
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