Gay History
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Gay History – October 19: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIVINE! (aka Harris Glenn Milstead)
Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine was born to a rather well off socially conservative family on October 19, 1945, at…
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Gay History – October 16: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde and Nazi Germany’s Paragraph 175
October 16, 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880's, Oscar Wilde became…
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Gay History – October 14, 1977: Anita Bryant Hit In The Face With A “Fruit Pie” And 42 Years Later It’s Still Delicious! [Video]
Today marks one of the most iconic moments in gay history when a gay male activist threw a pie in…
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Gay History – October 11: The Life and Death of Heroic Gay Rights Activist Frank Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011)
In 1957, Frank Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C.…
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October 11 – National Coming Out Day: Learn Its History
National Coming Out Day was founded in 1988 by Robert Eichberg, a psychologist from New Mexico and founder of the personal…
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Gay History – October 10, 1949: Newsweek Magazine Publishes Homophobic Article “Queer People” (Are Evil)
October 10, 1949: The periodical Newsweek published a story titled "Queer People" calling out "gay perverts" and comparing them to…
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Gay History – October 8: Remember Marcus Welby M.D. Was A Homophobe, Ellen DeGeneres, and Mister Marcus
Gay History: October 8th: 1904: Anna Ruhling became one of the first feminists to publicly speak out in favor of rights for same-sex…
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Gay History – October 5: Truman Capote, Peggy Lee and Robert Mapplethorpe Banned In Cincinnati
Gay History - October 5: 1990 - Dennis Barrie, director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, was acquitted of obscenity…
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Gay History – October 4: Female Trouble Opens, E.M. Forster, and the Shocking Abuse of AIDS Patient Morgan MacDonald
October 4th: 1913 - E.M. Forster finished writing his novel "Maurice. 1974: John Waters' follow-up to Pink Flamingos, 1983: In a…
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