New episode! Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the originals. With six other women, they co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis - the very first lesbian organization in the U.S. DOB seems tame and timid today, but in 1955 it was risky and radical for a fearful time.
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#Repost @devanshimoyama: ‘Sweet’ at @debuckgallery in NYC! Read more via NBC Out: “Gay artist reimagines the 'hyper-masculine’ black barbershop” http://bit.ly/devan-art
As we approach World AIDS Day on 12/1, we’re revisiting episodes of people we lost to the disease. Listen to Tom Cassidy, CNN business anchor, in 1990, seven months before he died from complications of AIDS: http://bit.ly/mgh-cassidy
As we approach World AIDS Day on 12/1, we’re revisiting episodes of people we lost to the disease. The late author and activist #VitoRusso is best known for his 1981 landmark book, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, and for co-founding both GLAAD (originally known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), and ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Vito died from complications of AIDS on November 7, 1990. He was 44.
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In his Making Gay History interview, Larry talks about how he thought he was the only gay student at Yale when he was a freshman in 1953. Today, Yale maintains an Office of LGBTQ Resources. To learn about the history of LGBT studies at Yale, click here: https://lgbts.yale.edu/history-lgbts-yale.
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Photo: Kramer in cap and gown in between his parents at his 1957 Yale graduation.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Larry Kramer Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Depictions of gender-fluid identity are common in ancient texts found in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, gods transform into goddesses, or they cross-dress. Men become pregnant.
But when the British colonized India, they imported “a great discomfort with all things pleasurable and sensual,” said Devdutt Pattanaik, the author of several books on mythology. The British also declared transgender people a “criminal tribe,” he said.
If you’ve heard of Larry Kramer, then his reputation as a passionate activist with high expectations and a short fuse probably precedes him. If you don’t know him, Larry is famous for being one of the first civilians to sound the alarm even before AIDS was called AIDS and became a catastrophic worldwide epidemic that has swept away millions of lives.
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Until 1981, Larry Kramer was best known for his Academy Award-nominated screenplay for “Women in Love” and Faggots, his controversial novel about New York City’s gay subculture in the post-Stonewall 1970s. And then he picked up the New York Times on the morning of July 3, 1981 and read about a rare cancer found in forty-one gay men.
It was in that moment that Larry Kramer was—to quote gay rights champion Frank Kameny—radicalized. Larry went on to co-found @GMHC (originally known as the Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and @actupny (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), two of the leading organizations that responded to the AIDS epidemic.
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Photo: Larry Kramer, 1978. Credit: Courtesy of Larry Kramer Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
New episode! In 1981 Larry Kramer sounded an alarm almost no one wanted to hear. Gay men were dying from a mysterious disease and the only way to stop its spread was to stop having sex. The outspoken activist went on to co-found @gmhc and @actupny, two of the leading organizations in the fight against AIDS.
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Photo: Larry Kramer with his wheaten terrier, Molly, 1989.
Credit: Photo by Robert Giard courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library.
When Deborah Johnson & Zandra Rólon Amato, veterans of the LGBTQ civil rights movement, headed out for a romantic dinner in Los Angeles in 1983, they had no idea that they’d wind up in court defending their right to be served
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