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LGBT History: June 17th – Liberace Wins Gay Libel Lawsuit, The AIDS Years, Garbo, and More
Share this: Today in LGBT History: 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...
LGBT History: June 16th – King Gustav, Nureyev, Queer Nation and Mike Signorile
Share this: June 16th 1858 – King Gustav V of Sweden was born on this date. Reigning from the death of his father Oscar II in 1907 until his own death 43 years later, he holds the record of being the oldest monarch of Sweden and the second-longest...
Today In Gay History: June 14th – Plato Was A DILF, Gay Hostages and Bush Disses LGBT Pride
Share this: JUNE 14th 427 BC – Philosopher Plato was born on this day in Athens. Platonic love today means love without sex. For Plato it meant sex with young men. Plato was born with the name Aristocles. He was surnamed Plato because of his...
Today In Gay History: June 13th – Paul Lynde, The First Lesbian Mag, Janet Reno and MORE!
Share this: JUNE 13th 1574 – English poet Richard Barnfield was baptized on this date. No birth record exists. His “Affectionate Shepherd” (1594) scandalized Renaissance England by describing the love of Daphnis and Ganymede in florid...
Today In Gay History – June 8th: First Gay Clergy, Lambda Rising, Sinead O’Connor, and the DOD
Share this: JUNE 8 1860 – American author and art collector Edward Perry Warren was born on this date. Under the pseudonym Arthur Lyon Raile, he wrote a three-volume 60,000-word “Defence of Uranian Love.” He also wrote poetry and novels...
Today In Gay History – June 4th: Anti-Gay Insurance, Oprah, Martha, and Dubya and the Pope!
Share this: June 4 1906 – Dr. William Lee Howard presented a paper to the American Association of Medical Examiners in Boston warning of the dangers of providing life insurance to male or female homosexuals. He said they are prone to disease, abuse...
Today In Gay History – June 3nd: 18th Century Lesbians, Hollywood Gay Bashing, Ginsberg and MORE
Share this:June 3rd 1708 - Anne Horton and Alice Pickford were married in England. They were one of two female couples whose marriages were registered in the parish of Taxal, Except for the notation in the records no other information is available...
Today In Gay History – June 2nd: AIDS Tax, Bill Clinton, and Crimes Against Nature
Share this: June 2 - 1983 – US Congressman Larry McDonald (D-GA) proposed that a “user-tax” be imposed on people with AIDS to finance research, saying that since they caused the epidemic they shouldn’t expect others to pay for...
Harvey Milk Day 2013 – Watch “The Times of Harvey Milk” – Video
Share this: Without knowing, understanding and embracing our past. We can not move forward in the future…. Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public...