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This community is about who we were. The battles we fought and the time we spent. Movies, television, books, magazines, pictures, historic moments, will all be displayed in this community. This is where you can look back and see where we came from. I hope you enjoy your visit.
This community is about who we were. The battles we fought and the time we spent. Movies, television, books, magazines, pictures, historic moments, will all be displayed in this community. This is where you can look back and see where we came from. I hope you enjoy your visit.
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Lesbian activist Audre Lorde, 1983, colorized
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Article about Gay Comix from the Bay Area Reporter in 1984
https://archive.org/details/BAR_19841121/page/n19/mode/2up?q=%22comix%22
The issue is dated 40 years ago today, 21 November 1984 and in case that url doesn't take you right to it, the title is 'Cartoon Tune In' and was written by John Karr. Who also reviewed porn movies for the B.A.R. both before and after this time. You can flip through the rest of the issue at the link above.
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Cover of the 1964 Guild Guide
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In 1901, Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas were wed by a Catholic priest. Elisa, wearing a suit and donning short hair, presented as a man. She told the priest that she was called ‘Mario’ and concocted a fake backstory. The priest married them believing they were a heterosexual couple.
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Australian soap "Number 96" (1972-'77). Character Don Finlayson [Joe Hasham], a lawyer (left) was the first sympathetically-portrayed, regular gay character on a TV series anywhere in the world. The show also included a trans character played by a trans actor.
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In 1994, LGBT activist Pedro Zamora became one of the first openly gay men living with AIDS to be seen on U.S. television. He appeared on The Real World: San Francisco and spoke openly about his sexual orientation, disease status and activism.
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Cover of Vagabond magazine from January 1964
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"Mick's more popular with men" (The Rolling Stones, 1964)
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Queer as a ... [art by Olaf Odegaard]
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Dick Leitsch at the New York office of the Mattachine Society in 1965
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Pat Parker reading For The Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So Blatant
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The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name
Brief history lesson, with links to the poem in question and additional info. Gay News was a biweekly newspaper in the UK between 1972 and 1983. Per the wiki article it was "a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE)." More info about Gay News here.
In 1976 a writer and poet named James Kirkup authored a long poem titled 'The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name' that was printed in the issue of Gay News dated 3 June 1976. It was told from the point of view of "a Roman centurion who describes having sex with Jesus after his crucifixion, and also says that Jesus had had sex with other men including disciples, guards, and Pontius Pilate." This led a conservative activist named Mary Whitehouse to sue Gay News and its owners for printing and disseminating blasphemous material. The case of Whitehouse v. Lemon proceeded through the court system and the defendants were found guilty in 1977, in what to date was the last successful blasphemy trial in the UK. More info about the trial can be found here.
To see the poem as it appeared in print and an accompanying drawing along the side of the page see here.
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Bob Mizer Announces Film Production (1957)
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Many Days Of Courage, text of a speech given by Joan Nestle at Central Park in June 1989
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Ad for a poster commemorating Judy Garland's final live performance
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Cocksucker Blues - The Rolling Stones
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Leonard Matlovich at the 1979 Gay Pride parade in San Francisco
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Happy holidays! 🌈✨ for all the members of the VintageLGBT group.
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Glad To Be Gay lyrics from a 1979 issue of Smash Hits
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