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 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 19, 1999: The Horrific Murder of Billy Jack Gaither And How It Changed A Small Alabama Town Forever
For the past 20 years there has been an annual vigil to celebrate Billy Jack Gaither's life, mourn his death,…
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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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200-Year-Old Diary Discovered in the UK Shows Surprising Acceptance of Homosexuality
The discovery of a 200 year old diary written by a Yorkshire farmer is surprising historians because of the tolerance…
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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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#FlashbackFriday – WATCH: Chicago Gay Pride Parade Video Footage Circa 1976
#FlashbackFriday PRIDE Edition - WATCH: Chicago Gay Pride Parade Video Footage Circa 1976
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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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