On this day in 1981, the @NYTimes published its first article about a rare cancer found in 41 gay men in New York and California—a marker for a disease that later came to be known as AIDS.
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In 1988, Eric Marcus interviewed @CNN business anchor Tom Cassidy about his experience of living with AIDS and facing his mortality. Listen to the full episode here: bit.ly/mgh-cassidy.
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Happy birthday to Frida Kahlo The legendary Mexican artist would have been 111 today. Her work has inspired generations of artists. Frida occasionally wore men’s clothing and was proudly bisexual — despite the world being hostile to LGBTQ people in the early 20th century. 📸: #NickolasMuray The first portrait was taken by Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1926.
Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz filmed the 1968 Reminder Day picket at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 4, 1968. The Annual Reminders, starting in 1965, were some of the earliest #LGBTQ demonstrations in the United States.
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Activists #FrankKameny and #BarbaraGittings were among the activists who organized the actions, which were designed to remind Americans that LGBTQ people did not enjoy basic civil rights. Watch the entire seven-minute film “The Second Largest Minority” on @librarycongress website: bit.ly/reminder-day1968
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Listen to our episodes with Frank Kameny:
bit.ly/mgh-kameny
and Barbara Gittings:
bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen1
bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen (at Independence Hall)
Too often we forget that Sylvia Rivera was more than a trans icon. After leaving home when she was 11, she told Eric Marcus that she survived on the streets by hustling. Sylvia was only 17 when she famously took part in the Stonewall uprising and went on to found S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with her friend and fellow activist Marsha P. Johnson.
Today, on her birthday, we honor the life of Sylvia Rivera and her work for the #LGBTQ community. Listen to our two episodes featuring Sylvia in her own words here: bit.ly/mgh-rivera and bit.ly/mgh-rivera-part2.
To commemorate the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, a memorial was placed in front of his long-time residence at Penn South, an affordable housing cooperative, in Manhattan, NY. The memorial was dedicated on Thursday, June 28, 2018 on West 28th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Manhattan.
About Bayard Rustin: Bayard Rustin was an essential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He pioneered the use of nonviolent civil disobedience in struggles to dismantle racial discrimination and segregation laws in the U.S. He was a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He dedicated his life to struggles for freedom and equality. Yet many of his contributions were obscured during his lifetime because he lived openly as a gay man in an era of intense discrimination.
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The Stonewall uprising began #onthisday in 1969. Explore the Library’s #LGBTQ history resources with our new guide by visiting on.nypl.org/stonewall or by going to the link in our bio.
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This photo shows the Stonewall Inn in 1969, and was taken by Diana Davies. It is currently part of the Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division, but is also visible in our Digital Collections under ID number 1582272.
Bloggers like Kerschenbaum — many of them students — have stepped up to fill the gap, building a canon of asexual history where it was previously nonexistent.
#Repost American Civil Liberties Union: Today we celebrate three years of marriage equality nationwide.Our client Jim Obergefell has thoughts on what that victory means to him — and what it tells us about the fights ahead for #LGBTQ equality.
In this Pride week video, Ellen DeGeneres talks about coming out on TV 20 years ago. Listen to Eric Marcus’ 2001 interview with Ellen about what happened immediately afterwards: http://bit.ly/mgh-degeneres
For our special #Pride bonus episode, Sara Burningham—Making Gay History’s executive producer—and Making Gay History’s host, Eric Marcus, joined 88-year-old LGBTQ civil rights champion Kay Tobin Lahusen and several of her history-making friends for dinner at Kay’s gay table at the retirement community where she lives in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. . Listen now by clicking the link in our bio or by retyping this link in your web browser: http://bit.ly/mgh-lahusen