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 11th, 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…
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Gay History – November 7, 1978: Prop 6 aka The Briggs Initiative Against Gay Teachers Defeated
California’s Proposition 6 was an initiative on the California State ballot on November 7, 1978. More commonly known as The Briggs Initiative, sponsored by John…
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Gay History Halloween Edition – October 31: Happy Birthday Baby Jane and Actor Ramon Novarro Murdered With A Lead Jeweled Dildo
October 31st. 1962: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, opens in theaters. Happy Birthday Blanche…
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Today In Gay History – October 28th: Republican Senator Jesse Helms “Homosexuals and lesbians [are] disgusting”
1903: British writer Evelyn Waugh is born in London. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A…
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Today in Gay History – October 27th: Freud, The GAA Invades Harper’s Magazine and the Tragic Murder of Gay Sailor Allen Schindler
October 27th. 1903: “I am of the firm conviction,’ Sigmund Freud famously wrote to the newspaper Die Zeit in 1905,…
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A Day Late and 2 Balls Short: Caitlyn Jenner Finally Admits Trump Is Against the LGBT Community
From Jenner’s op-ed for the Washington Post: I believed I could work within the party and the Trump administration to shift…
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Gay History – October 24th: Paul Lynde, Cole Porter and Read TIME Magazine’s 1969 Article “The Homosexual in America.”
Today In Gay History: October 24th. 44 B.C.: Marcus Tullius Cicero; Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and…
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Gay History – October 21, 1985: Dan White The Man Who Murdered Harvey Milk Commits Suicide
October 21st, 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 – October 16th: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde and Germany’s Paragraph 175
October 16th. 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, Oscar Wilde became…
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