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Happy Big Gay 4th Of July from Back2Stonewall.com! – Did You Know……..
Share this: We’re here, we’re queer, and we always have been! Did you know…….. * Benjamin Franklin was the first U.S. military recruiter who enlisted a gay man into the Revolutionary Army. * George Washington in all...
LGBT History July 3rd, 1981 – The New York Times “Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals”
Share this: On July 3, 1981, The New York Times’s wrote it’sfirst article about AIDS, headlined “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” (“Gay” had yet to be accepted by The Times’s style manual.) The cancer was Kaposi’s sarcoma,...
MUST WATCH – Stonewall Veterans Talk About the Night That Changed The World: “It was Fag-ulous!” – Video
Share this: Veterans of the Stonewall riots, along with author David Carter, recount the largest gay rebellion happened and will stands as the most historical moment in LGBT history. Included is a rare video clip of the actual riots which show...
The True History of the Stonewall Riots: June 28 – June 30, 1969 – Stonewall 45
Share this: The Stonewall Inn, in 1969 was located at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village and what many don;t know was owned by the infamous Mafia Genovese family. In 1966, three members of the Mafia invested $3,500...
Gay History: June 24th, 1973 – Remembering The UpStairs Lounge Arson Attack And Mass Murder In New Orleans – Video
Share this: On June 24th, 1973 the final day of Pride Weekend, thirty-two lives were lost when an arsonist set fire to the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans, Louisiana and is the deadliest fire in New Orleans history and the largest massacre of...
Today In Gay History: June 22, 1977 – The Brutal Murder Of Robert Hillsborough Rocks San Francisco and the Nation
Share this: June 22, 1977 A brutal murder that took place nearly four decades ago in San Francisco catalyzed that city’s gay community and resulted in exposing the mostly hidden to the public- eye violence against gay people. On the night of...
LGBT History: June 17th – Liberace: I’m NOT Gay!, The AIDS Years, Garbo, and Walter Mondale?
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,...
Today In Gay History: June 14th – Plato Was HOT!, Boy George, 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...
WATCH: The Gay 1990′s! – 1990′s LGBT News Compilation by Such is Life Video
Share this: The ever awesome Dave Evans aka SuchIsLifeVideos on YouTube has compiled an hour of gay-related news reports that aired in the 1990s.. Clips include the California Riots over AB 101, ACT UP demonstrations, the Task Force crying about...
