Gay History
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Gay History – 1974: The Equality Act Introduced to Congress and We Are Still Waiting
In 1974, gay activists in New York City were fighting to pass a city-wide gay rights ordinance. The late NY…
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Gay History – August 1970: The Gay Activist Alliance and Gay Liberation Front Battle the NYPD in the “Forgotten Riot”
If you think the Stonewall Riots was the only protest in New York City over police harassment in the…
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Gay History August 15th, 1972: Ohio Refuses To Incorporate Cincinnati Gay Organization
August 15, 1972 Republican Ohio Secretary of State Ted W. Brown (R) refused to accept the articles of incorporation for…
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On This Day – August 13, 1998: For The First Time In 10 Years The Bay Area Reporter Prints No Obituaries For AIDS Victims
Twenty-years ago this day August 13th, 1998 for the first time in over a decade The Bay Area Reporter printed…
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Gay History – August 7, 1931: Solider Found Guilty of Sodomy Sent To Alcatraz Prison
Clyde Findell Hicks was born in Oak Grove, Durham, North Carolina on September 5, 1910. On April 13, 1930 at…
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Gay History – August 6, 1673: Plymouth Colony Convicts Two Men Of “Spending their seed one upon another”
On this date August 6, 1673 Plymouth Colony convicted two men of “Lewd Behavior and Unclean Carriage”. While not directly labeled…
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Gay History – August 5, 1970: Charges Dropped Against The Gay Activists Alliance’s Rockefeller Five
One of our earliest activists groups was the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) which was founded in New York City on December 21, 1969, just…
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Gay History – August 4, 1956: NBC Airs “Introduction to the Problem of Homosexuality”
On this day in 1956, WRCA-TV (now WNBC) aired an award-winning weekly panel discussion program called “The Open Mind”. The…
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LGBT History – August 1966: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, San Francisco
On an warm summer August night in San Francisco in 1966 (no one knows the exact date since SFPD files…
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Gay History – August 1971: Newsweek Magazine Publishes “The Militant Homosexual” – READ THE FULL ARTICLE
August 1971 – Newsweek Magazine Publishes “The Militant Homosexual” A little over two years after the Stonewall riots in NYC’s Greenwich Village…
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