The Stonewall Inn located at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village in 1969 was owned by the infamous Mafia Genovese family. In 1966, three members of the famous Mafia family...
In doing so, Canada will join countries like the UK, AustraliaLater this year, the Canadian government is expected to apologize to all those in the federal civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
After decades of lobbying, victims and activists hailed a triumph in the struggle to clear the names of gay men who lived with a criminal record under article (Paragraph) 175 of the German penal...
On June 24th, 1973 the final day of Pride Weekend, thirty-two lives were lost when an arsonist set fire to the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans, Louisiana. The UpStairs Lounge fire is the...
A brutal murder that took place nearly four decades ago in San Francisco shocked and catalyzed that city’s gay community and resulted in exposing the mostly hidden to the public- eye violence against gay...
Life was so much simpler and fun before intersectionality we were a REAL community.
June 17th: 1883 – Birth date of Mauritz Stiller, the Finnish film director. Stiller was Greta Garbo’s discoverer, mentor, and friend. Tall, lean, gay, with a shock of hair and long expressive hands, Stiller...
June 16th. 1990 Queer Nation holds a Take Back the Night march in New York, protesting hate crimes against gays. Over 1,000 people attend. Via the NY Times, June 18, 1990: What began as a...
