The Satyrs Motorcycle Club was founded in 1954 at the home of Chapin “Smitty” Smith along with seven founding members. The club’s incarnation began around a pool-party a few weeks before after a night...
In 1899 and 1900, a New York state special legislative committee was formed to investigate the corruption of Tammany Hall. The city’s Democratic bosses’ corruption notwithstanding, the Republican-led state investigation took on a decidedly...
Giovanni di Giovanni (1350 – 1365) is one of the youngest victims of the campaign against sodomy waged in 14th-century Florence., Italy. The prosecution came on the heels of the Black Death, the bubonic plague...
April 30, 1877 – Alice B. Toklas (above pictured left) is born in San Francisco. Toklas will become a lover of Gertrude Stein and they will become one of history’s most legendary lesbian couples....
On September 25. 1985 an ACLU lawsuit filed on behalf of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives (now the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives) for an important cache of J. Edgar Hoovers’s personal...
45 years ago on June 4, 1971. Less than two years after the Stonewall uprising, a group of men and women from the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) walked into the New York City...
Deadline reports that ABC has greenlit an upcoming miniseries about the history of the gay rights movement from its “turbulent infancy” to the present. ABC is reassembling the team of the 2008 movie Milk for...
In 1974 Scott Forbes took over the building in West Hollywood that would become the epicenter for gay nightlife and activism for the next few decades. It’s name was Studio One which we now...
