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Anti-Gay Russian Gunmen Open Fire In Moscow Gay Night Club
Share this: Two armed anti-gay vigilantes opened fire at a gay club in Moscow over the weekend, releasing a string of bullets into the crowd and onto the building itself. Fortunately no one was hurt. Occurring at Central Station around 5 a.m. on Nov....
International Olympic Committee President REFUSES To Meet With Russian LGBT Activist
Share this: The new president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach has refused a request to meet with Russian LGBT activists during his tour of the country less this week but said he’s willing to host a conversation with them...
Today In Gay History October 23: 1766 Sodomy Ruling, Harry Hay, Montreal, Jerry Falwell and More
Share this: October 23 1766: Christoffel Bosch van Leeuwarden, a seventy year old porter in the Netherlands, was convicted of seduction to sodomy and sentenced to three years of prison labor. 1907: The Molte v. Harden trial began in Germany. Journalist...
Today In Gay History October 19: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIVINE! – Harris Glenn Milstead Born
Share this: October 19 Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine was born on to a rather well of socially conservative family on October 19, 1945, at the Women’s Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and would grow up to be the the most famous and fabulous...
Today in Gay History October 17: Montgomery Clift, Angela Davis, Pope John Paul III and Liberace.
Share this: October 17 1535: Pope John Paul III wrote a letter to his son, Duke Pier Luigi Farnese, on this day that scolded him for “having male lovers with him on an official mission to the court of the Emperor.” This LGBT history app cites...
Today In Gay History October 16: Oscar Wilde, Cleve Jones, The Boy From Oz and Another Weiner
Share this: Cleve Jones October 16th. 1856: Oscar Wilde born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, Oscar Wilde became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered...
Mikhail Baryshnikov Speaks Out Against Russia’s Treatment Of Its LGBT Citizens
Share this: “My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable. Equal treatment of people is a basic right and it is sad that we still have to even speak...
Today In Gay History October 10: Trans Union Soilder, Newsweek’s Queer People and OUTRAGE
Share this: 1915: Albert D. J. Cashier (born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish-born immigrant who served as a male soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cashier returned to Belvidere, Illinois for a time where he lived as a...
Moscow Citizens Stand Up To Police Over Protesters Arrest Until They Find Out He’s Gay – Video
Share this: Four days ago in Moscow gay rights protester carrying a banner which read: “Hitler also began with the gays. No to fascism in Russia.” were arrested for publicly protesting against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s draconian anti-gay...
