Jonathan Schmitz was 24-years-old when his acquaintance Scott Amedure revealed he was romantically interested in him during a taping of the ‘Jenny Jones Show,’ on “secret admirers”. Schmitz, who said he wasn’t gay, fatally...
On an warm summer August night in San Francisco in 1966 (No one knows the exact date since SFPD files have been lost) at Compton’s Cafeteria, in the seedy Tenderloin district, it is hopping with...
August 15th, 1972 Republican Ohio Secretary of State Ted W. Brown (R) refused to accept the articles of incorporation for the Greater Cincinnati Gay Society. The organization’s proposed articles of incorporation said the...
On this day August 13th, 1998 for the first time in over a decade The Bay Area Reporter printed no obituaries. Every week BAR reported dozens fo deaths for gay men who succumbed...
Clyde Findell Hicks was born in Oak Grove, Durham, North Carolina on September 5, 1910. On April 13, 1930 at the age of 20 he is listed as a soldier residing in Barracks...
On this date August 6, 1673 Plymouth Colony convicted two men of “Lewd Behavior and Unclean Carriage”. While not directly labeled in the records as a case of sodomy, it is clearly an act of...
One of our earliest activists groups was the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) which was founded in New York City on December 21, 1969, 5 months after the Stonewall riots, by dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front( GLF). Instead...
On this day in 1956, WRCA-TV (now WNBC) aired an award-winning weekly panel discussion program called “The Open Mind”. The program, hosted by Richard Heffner, was not only well ahead of its time when...
