Gay Icons and History
CNN Anchor Don Lemon Comes Out: Sends Message to Projectors
Filed by: Bil Browning
May 16, 2011 9:30 AM
Liberace Reimagined as AIDS Activist in New Short Film
Filed by: Toshio Meronek
May 14, 2011 4:00 PM
Look Back at the Ladder: Historic Lesbian Magazine
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
May 3, 2011 4:30 PM
Simple Title, Powerful Statement: Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
April 28, 2011 11:30 AM
Boy Meets Girl but Wants Boy: Classic Gay Pulp
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
April 21, 2011 11:30 AM
A Couple of Sailors Hanging Around: Vintage Photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
April 19, 2011 4:30 PM
46 Years Ago Today: First Lesbian & Gay Protest at the White House
Filed by: Guest Blogger
April 17, 2011 4:00 PM
OUT Lists 'Power 50': Forgets People of Color & Trans Folk
Filed by: Bil Browning
April 17, 2011 1:00 PM
Harlem Renaissance Heat: 1946 Van Vechten Nudes
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
April 8, 2011 10:30 AM
Yul Never Be the Same: Photo by George Platt Lynes
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
April 7, 2011 11:30 AM
Women's History Month: The Forgotten Wife of Christopher Columbus
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
March 23, 2011 7:00 PM
The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer
Filed by: Jessica Max Stein
March 17, 2011 7:00 PM
DUI Arrest: Senator's One Year Coming Out Anniversary
Filed by: Davina Kotulski
March 5, 2011 10:00 AM
Boi from a Bygone Era: Vintage Male Impersonator
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
February 24, 2011 11:30 AM
San Francisco Neighborhood Associationists Prefer Revisionist Art
Filed by: Toshio Meronek
February 20, 2011 4:00 PM
Pioneering Facts of Life Star and Disability Activist Comes Out
Filed by: Jessica Max Stein
February 17, 2011 10:30 AM
LGBT Fiction Fest: Five Fabulous Days of Pulp
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
February 14, 2011 9:30 AM
Vintage Fetish Fashion: 1960s Leatherwear for Men
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
February 11, 2011 10:30 AM
Very Naughty Girls: Lesbian BDSM in the 1920's
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
February 10, 2011 11:30 AM
TransSEXUAL: Early 20th Century Genderplay [NSFW!]
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
February 4, 2011 10:30 AM
Why Our Sex History Matters: An Allen Ginsberg story
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
December 31, 2010 12:00 PM
Marching for Gay Rights in NYC: Historic photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
December 27, 2010 9:30 AM
Milk Photographer Jerry Pritikin is OK with HRC at Castro Landmark
Filed by: Karen Ocamb
December 20, 2010 6:00 PM
Coy Gay Canoodling, with Beard: Antique postcard
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
December 20, 2010 9:30 AM
10 in '10: Freedom to Marry's Top Ten Moments for Marriage in 2010
Filed by: Guest Blogger
December 16, 2010 8:30 AM
The Bushy Hustitute: Vintage gay pulp fiction
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
December 9, 2010 11:30 AM
May-December Romance, ca. 1950s: Vintage photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
December 2, 2010 11:30 AM
Remembering Al Carmines: Vintage album cover
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
November 18, 2010 11:30 AM
The Three Mysterious Misses: antique theatre photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
November 17, 2010 2:30 PM
Gay philanthropist's new monkey species: Rhinopithecus strykeri
Filed by: Bil Browning
November 8, 2010 6:00 PM
Isadora Duncan's fluid movements: vintage dance photos
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
November 8, 2010 9:30 AM
How Big Is Your Banana? Vintage Homoerotic Humor
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
November 1, 2010 9:30 AM
Time Magazine, 1979: Gay history memorabilia
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
October 29, 2010 10:30 AM
Let's Have A Toga Party! 1962 Halloween photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
October 27, 2010 2:30 PM
Lingerie Lady Love: Vintage lesbian fetish erotica
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
October 23, 2010 4:00 PM
1960s Gay Intellectual Life: Vintage magazine
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
October 11, 2010 10:00 AM
LGBT History Discovery: 1921 Memoir of Earl Lind
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
October 9, 2010 12:00 PM
LGBT History -- Theater Pioneer George Birimisa
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
October 7, 2010 8:30 AM
Would we be calling Martin Luther King a civil discourse nut?
Filed by: Alex Blaze
September 24, 2010 12:00 PM
Castro triggered the American LGBT rights movement?
Filed by: Bil Browning
September 21, 2010 4:30 PM
Gay is not the new Black: Why replicating King's strategies won't work for the contemporary queer
Filed by: Alex Blaze
September 21, 2010 12:00 PM
Four facts I didn't know about the Montgomery bus boycott
Filed by: Alex Blaze
September 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Don't Read This if You Have Hang-Ups: vintage magazine
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
September 16, 2010 11:30 AM
Private Pictures: Keeping your balls in the air
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
September 9, 2010 12:30 PM
Private Pictures: vintage lesbian dance party
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
September 8, 2010 2:30 PM
Private Pictures: hanging with the homegirls
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
September 7, 2010 3:30 PM
Choosing Children: Help Preserve a Vital Piece of LGBT History
Filed by: Dana Rudolph
September 2, 2010 3:00 PM
Sex and Gender in Salon Society: antique photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
August 10, 2010 1:30 PM
Tyra Hunter Medical Transphobia Death 15th Anniversary
Filed by: Monica Roberts
August 8, 2010 11:30 AM
Sometimes a hot dog is just a hot dog: Vintage Hollywood
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
August 4, 2010 12:30 PM
Lounge Ladies of the Jewel Box: Vintage drag photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
June 30, 2010 1:30 PM
Exploiting Almost Everything: vintage movie poster
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
June 10, 2010 11:30 AM
Darling Man Dance: Early 20th century gay/drag ball
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
May 28, 2010 10:30 AM
Wall Street, Willa Cather and Pioneering Imagination
Filed by: Andrew Belonsky
April 23, 2010 2:00 PM
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Just Grab: vintage photo
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
April 13, 2010 12:30 PM
Fraternity, Sorority, Gender: 19th Century Lesbiana
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
April 6, 2010 11:30 AM
Beautiful Darling: A Positive Transgender Media Portrayal
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
April 2, 2010 9:30 AM
Re-introducing Effie Dropbottom: vintage drag humor
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
March 22, 2010 11:30 AM
Jesse's Journal: Gay Resistance, the Lessons of History
Filed by: Jesse Monteagudo
February 23, 2010 5:00 PM
Photo: G. Harrold Carswell - 1st Gay/Bi Supreme Court Nominee
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
February 21, 2010 11:30 AM
Lawrence King Killed Two Years Ago: Looking Back and Lessons Learned
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
February 12, 2010 10:00 AM
What We Should Do About The Suddenly More Saintly Pius XII
Filed by: Father Tony
January 3, 2010 3:00 PM
Out West Event at The Autry: "It's My History Too"
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
December 10, 2009 3:00 PM
Vintage Postcard: ca. 1900 prefeminist potty humor
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
December 6, 2009 1:00 PM
One Queer Man and One Straight Woman on a Big Gay Bus
Filed by: Prince Gomolvilas
November 24, 2009 9:30 AM
Michael Crawford: One of Advocate's People of the Year
Filed by: Bil Browning
November 12, 2009 1:00 PM
LGBT History: A British Bisexual and American Religious Liberty
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
October 29, 2009 2:00 PM
Rusty Gordon, 1942-2009. A community pioneer who will be sorely missed.
Filed by: Guest Blogger
October 29, 2009 2:00 PM
Obama Signs Matthew Shepard/James Byrd Hate Crimes Bill into Law
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
October 28, 2009 3:30 PM
Drag memorabilia: vintage Finocchio's postcard
Filed by: Gloria Brame, Ph.D.
October 27, 2009 12:30 PM
LGBT History and Hispanic Heritage Month: Two Puerto Rican AIDS Activists
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
October 10, 2009 2:00 PM
Madonna and Lady Gaga throwdown on Saturday Night Live
Filed by: Michael Crawford
October 4, 2009 7:14 AM
Jesse's Journal: Gay Bar Raids: A Double Standard
Filed by: Jesse Monteagudo
October 1, 2009 10:30 AM
Larry Kramer: "We get what we fight for. And we are not fighting."
Filed by: Michael Crawford
September 23, 2009 12:30 PM
Marriage Equality and Sept 11: The Connection You Might Have Missed
Filed by: Gloria Nieto
September 13, 2009 2:30 PM
LGBT people should not settle for "conditional freedom"
Filed by: Michael Crawford
September 8, 2009 6:00 PM
The Cleve Jones interviews: Omnibus post with transcripts
Filed by: Bil Browning
September 4, 2009 11:00 AM
Bilerico Project's interview with Cleve Jones: National Equality March questions
Filed by: Bil Browning
September 2, 2009 11:00 AM
Stuart Milk: Hall of Fame isn't good enough for my uncle
Filed by: Guest Blogger
August 26, 2009 11:00 AM
I Was There: Clinton, Don't Ask Don't Tell, & Wiggle Room
Filed by: Guest Blogger
August 20, 2009 5:30 PM
Brokeback Mountain cowboy shirts installed at Autry National Center of the American West
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
August 13, 2009 3:00 PM
Gayneration Gap: Where have all of the gay big brothers gone?
Filed by: Phil Reese
August 11, 2009 2:00 PM
Vote Batwoman: Because We Need a Crime-fighting Lesbian Jewish Mayor
Filed by: Michael Crawford
July 10, 2009 2:00 PM
Gay NYC Marching Bloggers in front of Stonewall on the 40th Anniversary
Filed by: Father Tony
June 29, 2009 10:30 AM
40 Years Across the Table, Stonewall Vets Talk with LGBT Youth
Filed by: Guest Blogger
June 28, 2009 11:30 AM
Michael Jackson: Goodnight, Sweet Prince...or Princess
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
June 26, 2009 6:00 PM
Transgender rights, the President's memo and legal history
Filed by: Nan Hunter
June 22, 2009 12:30 PM
Capital Pride Festival - It's Time to Shake Up "The System"
Filed by: John Shields
June 14, 2009 10:00 AM
On the 89th anniversary of the canonization of Joan of Arc
Filed by: Father Tony
May 16, 2009 10:00 AM
Openly gay man takes over federal Office of Personnel Management
Filed by: Bil Browning
April 24, 2009 12:00 PM
Barney Frank on ENDA, DADT and the "Homophobe" Antonin Scalia
Filed by: Michael Crawford
March 23, 2009 12:30 PM
A Different Kind of Herstory: Longing for Femme Mentors
Filed by: Guest Blogger
March 23, 2009 9:30 AM
And the Winner Is...Gay Marriage! Or: Why Milk and Sean Penn's Acceptance Speech Do not Equal the Need for Gay Marriage
Filed by: Yasmin Nair
February 23, 2009 11:00 AM
Who's History? My Curious Encounter with the Radical Faeries
Filed by: Karen Ocamb
February 20, 2009 11:00 AM
Black History Month: Looking for More Lives to Celebrate
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
February 20, 2009 10:00 AM
FBI investigated Jack Valenti for being "a sex pervert"
Filed by: Bil Browning
February 19, 2009 1:00 PM
A Horrible Anniversary: Lawrence King Killed One Year Ago
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
February 12, 2009 2:30 PM
Accused Murderers of Lesbian Soccer Player on Trial
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
February 11, 2009 12:30 PM
BU Law's LGBT Group Celebrates 30 Years of Service to Students and Society
Filed by: Guest Blogger
December 5, 2008 12:00 PM
MILK: A Sneak Peek and a Few Historical Reflections
Filed by: Nancy Polikoff
November 24, 2008 12:00 PM
Hundreds Rally in Detroit for National Day of Protest
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
November 15, 2008 4:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton -- "Little Lion" of the Revolution
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
October 25, 2008 10:30 AM
Solving a Mystery: What Did Joan of Arc Look Like?
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
October 18, 2008 4:30 PM
Southwestern New Mexico - A Probable History Before Stonewall
Filed by: Guest Blogger
October 17, 2008 11:00 AM
Remembering Philip Labhart, Pioneer Ad Producer
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
October 16, 2008 9:00 PM
LGBT History Month: A Tale of Old-time Montana
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
October 9, 2008 7:00 PM
Cynthia Nixon comes to South Florida to Register LGBT Voters
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
September 25, 2008 10:00 AM
New Sex and the City Books to Come Out in 2010
Filed by: Serena Freewomyn
September 20, 2008 9:00 AM
Restoring a name, March on Washington 45 years later
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
August 28, 2008 11:00 AM
Breaking News: Mitcham Wins Gold in Platform Diving
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
August 23, 2008 11:00 AM
NBJC Celebrates the Life of Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
August 22, 2008 9:00 AM
NBJC Action Fund Endorsement of Keisha Waites
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
August 2, 2008 10:30 AM
What the Main Stream Media Missed at Bruce Cohen's Wedding
Filed by: Karen Ocamb
June 27, 2008 10:00 AM
Burning Obama -- and His Family -- at the Stake
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
June 25, 2008 11:30 AM
Lambda Book Awards: Real people writing about real things
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
May 30, 2008 6:30 PM
EarthThunder: Medicine Woman working for our planet
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
March 25, 2008 5:32 AM
Amelia Earhart: You have to think like a pilot
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
March 22, 2008 11:28 AM
Transgender History: Stonewall and Its Fissures (1969-1995)
Filed by: Mercedes Allen
March 11, 2008 11:35 AM
Women's History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Filed by: Serena Freewomyn
March 2, 2008 1:35 PM
Valaida Snow: Black and queer in Nazi Germany?!
Filed by: Rev Irene Monroe
February 28, 2008 9:35 AM
Black LGBT History Day 25: James Richmond Barthe
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 25, 2008 9:49 AM
Black LGBT History Day 21: Billy Strayhorn
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 21, 2008 8:47 AM
High Ranking Black Politician Comes Out As Gay
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 19, 2008 7:35 PM
Black LGBT History Day 19: Craig Washington
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 19, 2008 12:20 PM
Black LGBT History Day 18: Dr. Kofi Adoma
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 18, 2008 11:06 AM
Black LGBT History Day 15: Dr. Ron Simmons
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 15, 2008 1:17 PM
Black LGBT History Day 14: Ifalade Ta' Shia Asanti
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 14, 2008 11:00 AM
Black LGBT History Day 13: Marcellas Reynolds
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 13, 2008 8:42 AM
Black LGBT History Day 12: Regina Shavers
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 12, 2008 12:59 PM
Transgender History: Trans Expression in Ancient Times
Filed by: Mercedes Allen
February 12, 2008 8:38 AM
Black LGBT History Day 11: Dr. Ian C. Barrett
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 11, 2008 2:39 PM
Black LGBT History: The Black Panthers on Gay Rights
Filed by: Serena Freewomyn
February 10, 2008 8:32 AM
Black LGBT History Day 9: Elder Joseph W. Tolton
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 9, 2008 12:31 PM
Black History Month: Remembering Slave Rebellions
Filed by: Serena Freewomyn
February 9, 2008 10:52 AM
Black LGBT History Day 8: Rev. Irene Monroe
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 8, 2008 12:20 PM
Black LGBT History Profiles: Dr. Horace Griffin
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 3, 2008 10:05 AM
Black History LGBT Profiles: Elder Kevin E. Taylor
Filed by: H. Alexander Robinson
February 1, 2008 12:40 PM
2008 Tragic, Fabulous and Hopefully Not Failures: Hillary and Britney
Filed by: Bruce Parker
January 12, 2008 7:02 PM
Why The Human Rights Campaign Is Wrong And Always Has Been
Filed by: Rebecca Juro
January 10, 2008 4:48 PM
LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ: Gay Rights Movement or Alphabet Soup?
Filed by: Eric Marcus
December 12, 2007 12:01 PM
“Ugly Betty’s” Judith Light and Showtime Receive Outfest Legacy Awards
Filed by: Karen Ocamb
October 5, 2007 8:38 PM














































