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Today in Gay History – December 1: World AIDS Day, Alvin Ailey and the Lesbians Started It.
Share this: December 1st: 1642 – The General Court of Connecticut adopted a list of 12 capital crimes, including “man lying with man.” The law was based on the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Liberties of 1641. 1901 –...
New Radio Documentary Explores The Gay History of Fire Island: “The Ghosts of Fire Island”
Share this: This weekend a new radio documentary will debut, that will tell the very gay history of Fire Island and its rise to the heights of being the best known mecca in the world.to the devestation that it suffered during the AIDS epidemic. The documentary...
Today In Gay History October 21: The NYPD, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dan White and 9 Other LGBT Moments
Share this: October 21 1797: Reinder Pieters van Workum of Frisia Netherlands was convicted of seduction to sodomy and sentenced to flogging, ten years in prison, and banishment for life. 1893: Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward make the cover of...
Today In Gay History October 14: National March on Washington, GMHC, and Anita Bryant Gets Pied
Share this: 1930: 21-year-old Ethel Merman makes a name for herself after belting out I’ve Got Rhythm in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. 1977: In one of the most iconic visual moments in LGBT history “Christian” anti-gay bigot Anita...
Today In Gay History October 9: Johnny Mathis, Billy Graham, Aileen Wournos & The Lesbian Avengers
Share this: 1957: 22-year-old Johnny Mathis sings Chances Are on American Bandstand. To this date the openly gay Mathis has sold over 350 Million records worldwide. 1993: Following his retirement in 1993, Episcopal Bishop E. Otis Charles became...
Today In Gay History October 2: Rock Hudson. Taxi zum Clo (Taxi to the Toilet) and High Five
Share this: 1977: Glenn Burke, the first openly gay man to play in Major League Baseball invented the high five in front of 46,000 fans at Dodger Stadium. Despite misconceptions that Jason Collins was the first openly gay player in a major pro sport,...
This Day In Gay History September 24, 1982: The CDC Uses The Term “AIDS” For The First Time
Share this: Up until late in in 1982 the devastating disease that would become known as AIDS and which wiped out almost an entire generation of gay men was known by a number of names – GRID5 (gay-related immune deficiency), ‘gay cancer’, ‘community-acquired...
FIRST LOOK: Watch The HD Trailer for The “Dallas Buyers Club” – Video
Share this: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto star in director Jean-Marc Vallée’s (The Young Victoria, C.R.A.Z.Y.) take on the true story of accidental AIDS activist Ron Woodruff, whose cross-border smuggling network brought much-needed...
This Day In Gay History: August 28, 1981 – The Day The AIDS Epidemic Officially Began
Share this: On June 5, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publish a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), describing cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), in five young, previously healthy,...
