Of Interest
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Gay History – November 17, 1998: John Lawrence Arrested In His Home For Having Gay Sex. Lawrence vs. Texas Begins
In 1960 every state in America had an anti-sodomy law on its books. In 1961, the American Law Institute's Model…
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Gay History – November 11, 1950: The Mattachine Society Holds It’s First Meeting In Los Angeles
On November 11th. 1950, Harry Hay and a group of Los Angeles friends formed The Mattachine Society, a group to…
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Gay History – November 7, 1978: California’s Prop 6 aka The Briggs Initiative Against Gay Teachers Defeated
California’s Proposition 6 commonly known as The Briggs Initiative, would have banned gays and lesbians, and possibly anyone who supported gay rights,…
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Gay History Halloween Edition – October 31: Happy Birthday Baby Jane, Toronto’s Mass Gay Bashings, and Silent Film Star Ramon Novarro Murdered With A Lead Jeweled Dildo
LGBT History October 31: October 31,1968 : Silent film star Ramon Novarro's body was found after being brutally murdered. A…
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Happy HOMOween! – The Haunted Gay Carpe Diem Guesthouse in Provincetown, MA
Owned by partners Rainer Horn and Jürgen Herzog, the literary-themed bed & breakfast known as Carpe Diem in the past…
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Gay History Month – October 27: Sigmund Freud On Homosexuality, The GAA Invades Harper’s Magazine and the Tragic Murder of Gay Sailor Allen Schindler
n 1935, Freud wrote to a mother who had asked him to treat her son's homosexuality, a letter that would…
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PLAYGIRL Magazine to Relaunch Next Week After Years Absence.
PLAYGIRL magazine originally published for women but who also had a large gay fanbase will relaunch next month after a…
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Gay History Month – October 24: Cole Porter, Paul Lynde and TIME Magazine’s 1969 Article “The Homosexual in America.”
LGBT History - October 24, 1969 : Just a mere 4 months after the riots at the Stonewall Inn TIME Magazine's…
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Gay History Month- October 21, 1985: Dan White The Man Who Murdered Harvey Milk Commits Suicide – Read His Full Confession
October 21, 1985: Dan White, the man who murdered both Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, commits suicide. Harvey…
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Gay History Month – October 16: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde and Nazi Germany’s Paragraph 175
October 16, 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880's, Oscar Wilde became…
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