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Disver the top 10 LGBTQ mms offerg up gay culture and sight to all thgs queer, wherever you are the world. * lgbt historical society *
Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men.
The Universy of Illois at Sprgfield's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Allied Rource Office offers a tratg, however technilly accurate, asssment of the sexual ambiguy of the legendary sculptor and pater of the ceilg at the Siste Chapel Rome.
Before he was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Masne, Milk helped stave off a nservative backlash agast LGBT equaly the form of the so-lled Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gay people om teachg California's public was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977. Sce Milk's victory, hundreds of LGBT ndidat have been elected across the were a few out gay and lbian ndidat elected before Milk, cludg Elae Noble to the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ and Kathy Kozachenko to the Ann Arbor, Mich., Cy Council, both 1974. For weeks 1997, Ameri wonred and ABC's publicy partment fueled speculatn about whether or not DeGener's character would follow the lead of the real-life lbian who played her by g wh clever humor cludg a gag about receivg a ee kchen appliance for exg the closet (an obv reference to the age-old homophobic notn that the LGBT muny "recs" members), the wily viewed g-out episo of Ellen ma televisn history — and ma a lghg natn measurably more fortable wh and acceptg of gay people general.
THE COMMTEE ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HISTORY
Dpe his personal undog followg his arrt, nvictn, and sentence of two years hard labor for the "crime" of homosexualy (technilly, "gross cency"), the wrer of classics such a The Importance of Beg Earnt and The Picture of Dorian Gray remas one of the wrten word's most famo and celebrated artists. In April 2021, the GLBT Historil Society received an archival donatn of an extraordary, unique piece of history that we are unveilg durg the Pri season: a agment of one of the two monumental rabow flags first raised on June 25, 1978 San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para.
In 1978, while preparg for that year’s Gay Freedom Day celebratn, Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk (1930–1978) and other lol activists appealed to Baker, the -chair of the Deratns Commtee, to create a new symbol for the LGBTQ muny to be unveiled at the event June. The meetg, anized by Eric Garber, Jim Gordon, Terry Henrlg, Ellen Klag, Greg Penngton and Willie Walker, built on smaller gathergs that had started the prev fall, and clud members of the San Francis Lbian and Gay History Project, which had begun the late 1970s, and the San Francis Gay and Lbian Perdil Archiv, which had begun 1983.
The society quickly starts sharg s rourc, by puttg on s first exhibns: displays at a rnn of the Society for Individual Rights and at the San Francis Urban the same year, the society receiv the holdgs of the San Francis Gay and Lbian Perdil Archiv, creatg the nucls of s Perdils Collectn. The society rents a storage locker to acmodate further accsns, havg already outgrown s storage space the livg room of -founr Willie society receiv a trove of irreplaceable material om scholar and activist Will Rose, cludg the rerds of Gay Amerin Indians, the first LGBTQ Amerin Indian liberatn anizatn, found July October, members rry the Gay and Lbian Historil Society banner the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. In April 2021, the GLBT Historil Society receiv an archival donatn of a agment of one of the two monumental rabow flags first raised on June 25, 1978 San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day flag go on display at the GLBT Historil Society Mm June, as the mm opens after a long closure durg the COVID-19 panmic.