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Marie Osmond Poses with Anita Bryant – Paper Roses and Arsenic & Old Lace
Share this:The good died young and it seems that Anita Bryant will live forever. Marie Osmond the mother of a lesbian daughter and a a professed equality ally posed for a picture of famed anti-gay spokesbitch Anita Bryant after a recent concert. Bryant...
New Radio Documentary Explores The Gay History of Fire Island: “The Ghosts of Fire Island”
Share this: This weekend a new radio documentary will debut, that will tell the very gay history of Fire Island and its rise to the heights of being the best known mecca in the world.to the devestation that it suffered during the AIDS epidemic. The documentary...
November 27th, 1978 – 35 Years Ago Today Harvey Milk Was Assassinated. Light A Candle for Harvey
Share this: 35 years ago today Harvey Milk, the greatest gay activist of our time was murdered along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. The shooter was Supervisor Dan White, a conservative board member who had campaigned on a platform of law and...
Gay Pilgrims In 1600′s Plymouth MA? The Turkeys Weren’t The Only Ones Getting Stuffed.
Share this: In the summer of 1637, two working men at the English colony at Plymouth faced the possibility of execution, convicted of what was said to be a grave moral crime. John Alexander and Thomas Roberts had been caught in a homosexual relationship. Plimoth Plantation...
The Very Gay History of the Almost Lost Tradition of the Sunday Tea Dance
Share this: Many gay men under the age of 30 are totally clueless of almost lost tradition of the Sunday Tea Dance. (A tradition that really must be brought back.) So here’s a little history primer on the tradition of the “Sunday T-dance”...
Today In Gay History October 31: Happy Birthday Baby Jane and Ramon Novarro Killed With A Dildo
Share this: October 31 ( A VERY freaky Halloween Edition) 1962: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, opens in theaters. Happy Birthday Blanche and Jane! 1968 : Silent film star Ramon Novarro‘s...
Today In Gay History October 27: Freud, CHER, The GAA and the Murder of Sailor Allen Schindler
Share this: 1903: “I am of the firm conviction,’ Sigmund Freud famously wrote to the newspaper Die Zeit in 1905, `that homosexuals must not be treated as sick people.”’ 1951: The French Postal Service issued stamps with the pictures...
Cory Booker Takes On Religious Extremist Heckler At NJ Gay Marriage Ceremony – VIDEO
Share this: The current Mayor of Newark N.J. before he moves to Washington, D.C. to join Congress, Cory (Superman) Booker last night. married Orville Bell and Joseph Panessidi, Booker and asked, “I must ask if there’s anyone present here today...
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...
