AFA’s Bryan Fischer: I Want Gays Outlawed “Because I Love Black Males”! – Video

Share this: “Let me put it bluntly: If you are for the legalization of homosexuality, you are for the acceptability of homosexuality, you are for the normalization of homosexuality, you do not care about black males. You have no compassion in your...

Tea Party Loon James Corsi Claims Obama Will Use Gays and AIDS To Bring In Socialism

Share this: Tea party activist, author, and right-wing extremist lunatic James Corsi is claiming that gay people with AIDS are being enlisted by the Obama administration to destroy the health insurance system and usher in socialized medicine. Corsi whi...

Today In Gay History: Dec 9th, 1985 – N.Y.C. Department of Health Closes the St. Marks Baths

Share this:The New St. Marks Baths was the premiere gay bathhouse in NYC located at 6 St. Marks Place in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City from 1979 to 1985.  It claimed to be the largest gay bathhouse in the world with with 230...

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...