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    Howard Brown

    Howard Brown, Doctor and Public Health Activist

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    Charles Ludlam

    Charles Ludlam, Actor, Playwright, Director

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    Dorothy Allison

    Dorothy Allison, Writer

  • First Public Meeting of Gays and Lesbians in South Africa

    The Homosexual Law Reform Fund convenes the first public meeting in South Africa of gays and lesbians. The group was formed, and the meeting in a Johannesburg suburb was called, in response to a legislative proposal to make being gay or lesbian in…

  • U.S. Psychiatrists Confirm End of Sickness Classification

    The American Psychiatric Association announces the results of a referendum of its members about whether or not to endorse the decision of its Board of Trustees to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The referendum had been pushed…

  • Gay Academic Union forms in New York City

    The first meeting of what becomes the Gay Academic Union takes place in New York City when a few faculty, graduate students, and writers meet to discuss how history and other kinds of research could benefit the gay liberation movement. Over the next…

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    Gay History in Nevada and Las Vegas, 1969-2009, by Dennis McBride, Crystal Van Dee, and Paul Ershler

    The Las Vegas OutHistory project. This exhibit was a winner of OutHistory's 2010 Since Stonewall community history contest!

  • Colorado's first openly gay publication

    As a college student Phil Price publishes out of his parents’ basement the inaugural issue of Out Front, Colorado's first openly gay publication. He adopts the slogan "There's no turning back!" Out Front continues to publish in…

  • ACT UP demonstrates on Wall Street

    ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) converges on Wall Street in New York City to stage its first major demonstration. Exposing the ties between the corporate pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, demonstrators blocked…

  • Anti-discrimination bill introduced into U.S. Congress

    At a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Representative Bella Abzug, along with other members of Congress and gay and lesbian activists, announces that HR 5452 has been introduced in Congress with 24 sponsors. The bill proposed to outlaw…

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    Barney Frank

    Barney Frank, Elected Official

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    Alberta Hunter

    Alberta Hunter, Singer and Performer

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    Jane Rule

    Jane Rule, Novelist

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    Margarethe Cammermeyer

    Margarethe Cammermeyer, Military Officer and Activist

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    2. "The Tom-Boy"

    “The Tom-Boy who was changed into a real boy” McGloughlin Bros. 1859. Image Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society

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    2. “The Girl-Boy"

    “The Girl-Boy,” Home Monthly 2 (December 1860): 397–398. Image Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society

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    1. “The Girl-Boy"

    “The Girl-Boy,” Home Monthly 2 (December 1860): 397–398. Image Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society

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    7. “Billy Bedlow; or, the Girl-Boy"

    Eliza Leslie, “Billy Bedlow; or, the Girl-Boy,” Juvenile Miscellany 1, no. 3 (February 1832): 274–280. Image Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society

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    6. “Billy Bedlow; or, the Girl-Boy"

    Eliza Leslie, “Billy Bedlow; or, the Girl-Boy,” Juvenile Miscellany 1, no. 3 (February 1832): 274–280. Image Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society

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    5. “Billy Bedlow; or, the Girl-Boy"

    Eliza Leslie, “Billy Bedlow; or, the Girl-Boy,” Juvenile Miscellany 1, no. 3 (February 1832): 274–280. Image Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society