Of Interest
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Gay History – 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 – 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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HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN 2019 – WATCH: Sleepaway Camp (1983) Remastered HD – FULL Movie
Sleepaway Camp also marketed on VHS (remember those?) as Nightmare Vacation, is a 1983 low budget exploitation slasher film written and directed…
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Britain Chokes Its Chick-Fil-A: Britain’s Only Store To Close After Massive Protests
In 2010 this website broke the first story about Chick-Fil-A's involvement with hate groups when we exposed the fact that…
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Gay History – 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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Gay History – October 11: The Life and Death of Heroic Gay Rights Activist Frank Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011)
In 1957, Frank Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C.…
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Gay History – October 10, 1949: Newsweek Magazine Publishes Homophobic Article “Queer People” (Are Evil)
October 10, 1949: The periodical Newsweek published a story titled "Queer People" calling out "gay perverts" and comparing them to…
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Gay History – October 6: Judy & Barbara, The MCC, Brokeback Mountain and The Castro Sweep [Rare Video]
October 6, 1989: 1989: In the annals of bloody misconduct by members of the San Francisco Police Department, the events…
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Gay History – October 4: Female Trouble Opens, E.M. Forster, and the Shocking Abuse of AIDS Patient Morgan MacDonald
October 4th: 1913 - E.M. Forster finished writing his novel "Maurice. 1974: John Waters' follow-up to Pink Flamingos, 1983: In a…
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Gay History Month – October 3: Roddy McDowell, GOP Gay Sex Scandals Ain’t Nothing New, and the Infamous Bloomingdale’s Tearoom
October 3, 1980: Conservative Republican U.S. Representative Robert Bauman was arrested for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute. The arrest came…
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