Gay History

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• Ivory Soap and Denim - Lest We Forget

  
  Pax Romano's Ramblings — Authority: 125
  She was a blond beauty from New England with aspirations of becoming a fashion model and actress, he was a handsome man from a showbiz family in Beverly Hills who also longed for legitimate fame.  Ultimately, the blond beauty and the handsome man found their fame...but it was probably not what either of them had in ...
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• New York gov extends protections to transgender New Yorkers

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 134
  By 365gay Newswire(Albany, NY) New York Governor David A. Paterson issued an executive order extending anti-discrimination policies to gender identity for state employees Wednesday. “Governor Paterson has taken significant action to advance equality for all New York state employees,” said Human Rights Campaign ...
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• Fenty signs gay marriage bill

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 134
  In a raucous signing ceremony at a northwest Washington church, Mayor Fenty officially legalized same-sex marriage in the District, distributing ceremonial pens among the Council members standing behind him. The law now will go through a period of review consisting of 30 days in which Congress is in session. If the ...
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• Some recent history, and its mythical transformation

  
  Dyneslines — Authority: 420
  I am a survivor, and my involvement in the gay movement goes back a long ways. In fact it started at a time when the current obligatory designation of "GLBTQ" could scarcely be imagined. We called ourselves homophiles in those days. I was living in Los Angeles in the 1950s when Mattachine, the first significant ...
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• Gay Gerontophobia

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 134
  by Charles-Gene McDaniel2008-06-25 The following essay appeared in the Nov. 5, 1998 Windy City Times. Charles-Gene McDaniel worked for 16 years at Roosevelt University, retiring as head of faculty of journalism and communications and professor emeritus. He lives on the south side of Chicago.While out riding my bicycle ...
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• ‘Invisible And Overlooked’

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 134
  Bob McCoy is a youthful, active 78-year-old. He sings in his church choir, takes a weekly computer class, and regularly attends social gatherings organized by a gay senior citizens group in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lives. But McCoy worries about a day when he can no longer care for himself: he has no close family, ...
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• The Gay History Wiki — Remembering Those Weve Lost From AIDS

  
  AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters — Authority: 644
  NYTimes.com ran an interesting article yesterday about how the rise of sites like Facebook and Twitter has led to the creation of the Gay History Wiki — A social networking site for the...
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• A Lovely Video - Nothing Taboo

  
  GayWisdom — Authority: 115
  
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• Wasilla Gays to Levi: We’re here

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 134
  I should have aseen this coming. I just wrote about Levi Johnson on the Joy Behar show where he states he had never met a gay person in Wasilla, Alaska. Her response was “Look around they’re everywhere.” Here’s the text of the letter sent to him as a rebuke to that statement, sent by the local gays, [...]
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• Visions of Sexual Freedom

  
  Sugarbutch Chronicles — Authority: 423
  Need a fabulous gift this holiday season? Don’t know what to get your (least) favorite boss or your Grandma? Well! Here ya go: the New York City Sex Blogger 2010 Calendar: Visions of Sexual Freedom . You’re welcome. This year’s calendar features 16 bloggers, including myself, Audacia Ray , Calico Lane , ...
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• Celebrity Friday: Evan Low (26-year-old Gay, Asian Mayor)

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 137
  More history for LGBT people of color was made on Tuesday night in the Bay Area when openly gay, Chinese-American Evan Low , 26, a member of the Campbell, California City Council was elected the nations youngest, openly gay Mayor by his fellow colleagues. Low grew up in San Jose but eight years ago moved to ...
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• The month in gay history

  
  MileHighGayGuy — Authority: 512
  December 5, 1984 Berkeley, California, becomes the first city in the United States to extend spousal benefits to the domestic partners of city employees. December 10, 1924 Henry Gerber, a German-born immigrant and early gay rights activist, receives a charter from the state of Illinois for the Society for Human ...
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• Openly Gay ( and POC!) Candidates Win in Atlanta

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 137
  Simone Bell Alex Wan Simone Bell and Alex Wan made history on Tuesday night by winning election to the Georgia House of Representatives and Atlanta City Council, respectively, as openly LGBT people of color . Bell became the first African American lesbian ever elected to a state legislative position in ...
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• World AIDS Day: Safer Sex, History, and Interconnectivity

  
  Sugarbutch Chronicles — Authority: 423
  To be honest, I don’t use Sugarbutch often enough as a platform (ahem soapbox) to preach about safer sex practices, and I should. It is fucking important. Since I came of age in the ’90s, pretty much after the Lesbian Sex Wars and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the people in the queer and kinky and ...
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• World AIDS Day

  
  GayWisdom — Authority: 115
  Its World AIDS Day.  Thats nice. ...and Im reminded of some Black comics comment about February being "African American History Month"..." typical...we get the shortest month. " Which is to say, one day to remember is woefully shy of the task.  I remain angry at the homophobic, puritanical, punishing, ...
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• B.A.R. Posts All Obits Since 1980

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 710
  In a joint project with the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Historical Society, the Bay Area Reporter has created an online database of every obituary published since 1980. For years, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s, people who had died from complications related to AIDS dominated the B.A.R. s ...
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• Gay and Lesbian History for Teens

  
  Mombian — Authority: 130
  (Originally published as my Mombian newspaper column, October 2009.) October is, among other things, LGBT History Month, which makes it the perfect time to write about  Gay America: Struggle for Equality (Amulet: 2008), by Linas Alsenas. The book is a history of gay men and lesbians in the U.S. from the ...
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• Two Spirits

  
  GayWisdom — Authority: 115
  This documentary, reviewed in the most recent issue of White Crane is a MUST SEE. 
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  GayWisdom — Authority: 115
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