Of Interest
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Gay History – May 14, 1883: Julian Eltinge The World’s Greatest Forgotten Female Impersonator – RARE 1929 Video
After appearing in the Boston Cadets Revue at the age of ten in feminine garb, Julian Eltinge garnered notice from…
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Gay History – May 11: The 1st. Gay Marriage Takes Place in 54 AD, The Ladies of Llangollen and Billy Bean
Gay History - May 11: The 1st. Gay Marriage Takes Place in 54 AD, The Ladies of Llangollen and Billy…
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Gay History – May 6 – 10, 1933: Nazi Youth Attack Magnus Hirschfeld’s Berlin Institute for Sexual Research and the “Säuberung” Book Burnings [RARE VIDEO]
On May 6, 1933, less than six months after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had come to power, Nazi Youth…
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Gay History – May 7, 1365: 15 Year Old Giovanni di Giovanni Tortured and Killed for the Crime of Sodomy
Giovanni di Giovanni (1350 – 1365) is one of the youngest victims of the campaign against sodomy waged in 14th-century Florence.,…
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Gay History – May 4: Sir Francis Bacon Was A Total Top and Roaring 20’s Power Bottom Therapy
May 3, 1621 - Sir Simonds D’Ewes published his political biography of Sir Francis Bacon, in which he accuses the…
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REMEMBER! – May Is National Masturbation Month! + Bernadette Peters Sings “Making Love Alone” [VIDEO]
U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders made a speech at the United Nations World AIDS Day in 1994. After her speech…
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Today In Gay History – April 30th, 1877: Happy Birthday Alice B. Toklas!
April 30, 1877 – Alice B. Toklas (above pictured left) is born in San Francisco. Toklas will become a lover…
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Gay History- April 28, 1990: Bomb Explodes At Uncle Charlie’s Downtown NYC, Later Found To Be Terrorist Attack
On April 28th, 1990 a homemade pipe-bomb exploded in a popular gay bar in the West Village of New York City…
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Gay History – April 21, 1966: NYC Gay Rights Activist Stage “Sip-In” Protesting Refusal To Serve Homosexuals
On this date a little-known but very important milestone in gay history took place at Julius' bar on West 10th…
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Gay History – April 15, 1979: Happy 40th. Anniversary to San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
40 years ago on April 15, 1979 the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence founded a “convent” in San Francisco when three men, dressed…
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