Gay History
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Gay History – February 22: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Andy Warhol Dies, and Roy Cohn’s Birthday at Studio 54
February 22nd. 1892: Popular openly bisexual poet Edna St. Vincent Millay is born. Milay received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the…
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Gay History – February 20, 1927: Roy Cohn The Most Evil, Self Loathing Closet Case In History Born
Donald Trump prized Roy Cohn’s friendship and his reputation for aggression. According to a New York Times profile a quarter-century…
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Gay History – February 18, 1895: Oscar Wilde Is Accused of Being A “Sodomite”
On this day in 1895, British playwright Oscar Wilde was dining at the Albermarle Club in London when the Marquess of Queensbury…
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Gay History – February 14: Forgotten Gay Hero Don Slater and David Bowie Snubs The Gay Liberation Front
Gay History - February 14: Forgotten Gay Hero Don Slater. Frustrated and impatient with the way the Mattachine Society was getting…
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Gay History – February 12, 1976: Actor Sal Mineo Murdered In West Hollywood
On the night of February 12, 1976, actor Sal Mineo returned home following a rehearsal for the play P.S. Your Cat Is…
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Gay History – February 9: Irish Poet Brendan Behan, Archie Bunker’s Gay Bud, and Jerry Falwell Outs A Teletubby
February 9, 1999 - The leader of the "moral majority" and founder of the anti-gay hate bastion Liberty Universality the…
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Gay History – READ: The Gay Revolutionary a.k.a. The Gay Manifesto by Michael Swift – 1987
n February of 1987, a satirical article by Michael Swift appeared in New York City's Gay Community News titled "The…
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Gay History – February 1: Tom of Finland, Robert Opel and Tennessee Williams Terrorized in Key West
Tennessee Williams' life now on Key West in a way resembles the plot of one of his plays: an injured…
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Black History Month – Black Panthers Leader Huey Newton’s Pro-Gay Rights Letter
A little over a year after the Stonewall riots of 1969, Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton spoke these words on August…
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January 27 – Holocaust Remembrance Day: Nazi Germany, The Pink Triangle and Paragraph 175
January 27 - Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Pink Triangle and Paragraph 175. Survival in camps took on many forms. Some…
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