Gay History
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Gay History – January 20, 1979: Gloria Gaynor’s Gay Anthem “I Will Survive” Released – Five Facts You Didn’t Know
Gay History January 20, 1979: Gloria Gaynor's Gay Anthem "I Will Survive" Released - Five Facts You Didn't Know: On…
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Gay History – January 19: Alexander Woolcott, Janis Joplin, and Hubert Humphrey
January 19, 1976 – Vice President Hubert Humphrey becomes one of the first nationally known politicians to endorse gay and…
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Gay History – January 18: The Gay King of America, Anita Bryant Wants to “Save The Children” and An American Family
January 18, 1977 – In Miami, Florida: Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen, launches a nationwide crusade against gay and…
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Gay History – SEX in the 1970’s: NYC’s Christopher Street, the Trucks, and the West Side Highway Piers
Greenwich Village in New York City was a a newly sexually liberated homosexual’s dream come true in the 1970's and…
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BLAST FROM THE PAST: NYC Gay Bar Guide 1978
Metropolitan Bar Guide from Where It's At Magazine March 6, 1978. This is just the first page of many. Those…
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Gay History – January 8, 1962: Two Men Arrested for “Abominable Act and Detestable Crime Against Nature” In North Carolina Under 429-Year-Old Law
Max Perkins and Robert McCorkle were arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the charge that they “did unlawfully, willfully, maliciously and…
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Gay History – January 7, 1949: 4 Men Plead Guilty To “Homosexual Offenses” After Gay Witch Hunt at University of Missouri
In the late 1940's, Missouri law classified homosexual acts as felony crimes against nature. The University of Missouri in Columbia…
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Fictional Gay History – January 6, 1854: Happy Birthday Sherlock! – The Mysterious Gay (Closet) Case of Sherlock Holmes & Watson
January 6, 1854 - On this is the date, Arthur Conan Doyle tells us his most famous character Sherlock Holmes was…
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Gay History – January 4, 1982: NYC’s Gay Men’s Health Crisis Founded in Response to AIDS Epidemic
Six months after the New York Times reported on a "gay cancer" that was showing up in gay men. The…
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Gay History – January 3, 1752: Gay Swiss Historian Johannes von Müller Born
Johannes von Müller (1752-1809). Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Müller was the most important Swiss historian of the 18th century.
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