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...
Loyalty Day is a Cold War-era holiday made official by Congress in 1958. It was first observed in 1921 in opposition to International Workers’ Day, which commemorates the May 1886 bombing of a...
April 12, 1953: A well-planned raid early Sunday morning broke up a statewide “homosexual convention” while a mock wedding was in progress, police reported Monday. Detective Capt. Wiley Stem said 63 men, mostly...
ITV is a commercial TV network in the United Kingdom launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to the BBC. Coming Out” which screened on ITV as part of Southern Television’s “Southern...
Actor, comedian, and activist Taylor Negron has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 57. Negron who played Rodney Dangerfield’s future son-in-law Julio in “Easy Money”, the villainous Milo in “The...
