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Gay History – December 20, 1957: Frank Kameny Fired from Government Job For Being Gay.
In 1957, Frank Kameny was a Harvard educated, WWII veteran working for the Army Map Service until the Government found…
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Gay History – November 11, 1950: The Mattachine Society Holds It’s First Meeting In Los Angeles
On November 11th. 1950, Harry Hay and a group of Los Angeles friends formed The Mattachine Society, a group to…
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Gay History – October 11: The Life and Death of Heroic Gay Rights Activist Frank Kameny (May 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011)
In 1957, Frank Kameny was dismissed from his position as an astronomer in the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C.…
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Gay History – June 20, 1951: Mattachine Society Officially Adopts It’s “Missions and Purposes”
On July 20, 1951 The Mattachine Society wrote and adopted it's “Missions and Purposes,” and marked it “confidential” out of…
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Gay History: April 7, 1912: Happy Birthday Harry Hay, The Forgotten Founder of Gay Liberation
April 6, 1912 – – Harry Hay (Activist, Co-founder of The Mattachine Society, 1950) – Henry “Harry” Hay, Jr .(April…
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Gay History 101 – The First Christopher Street Liberation Day (PRIDE) March – RARE VIDEO
On November 2, 1969, just 4 months after the Stonewall Riots Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and…
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Gay History – March 10,1958: WABD-NY Hosts First Televised Daytime Discussion With Gay Panelist
While not the first television station to feature a televised panel discussion on “homosexuality” (that honor would go to WRCA…
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Gay Rights Pioneer Dick Leitsch Whose Famous ‘Sip-In’ Helped Change NYC , Dies at 83
Dick Leitsch, a leading gay rights activist in 1960’s New York, where he helped end police entrapment of gays and…
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Gay History 1961 – WATCH: “The Rejected” The Long Lost First Aired Television Documentary About Homosexuality
While there were a few previously produced television panel discussions about homosexuality The Rejected was the first ever full-length televised…
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Asteroid Named For Gay Rights Pioneer and Hero Frank Kameny
Formerly known as Minor Planet 40463, the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is is now known as Frankkamney in…
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