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Anti-Discrimination Law in Wisconsin
Governor Lee Dreyfus of Wisconsin signs into law a bill that bans discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation. Originally introduced and sponsored by David Clarenbach, an openly gay member of the…
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Marc Blitzstein
Marc Blitzstein, Music Composer
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Pedro Zamora
Pedro Zamora, AIDS Activist
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Gay Liberation in London
In London, as Gay Liberation Front men leaflet outside, GLF women enter the Gateway Club, a popular lesbian bar, to protest the earlier expulsion by the owner of several women who were active in GLF. Demonstrators unplugged the juke box and shouted…
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Controversy at University of North Carolina
In a non-binding referendum, the student body at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill votes to deny funding to the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association. But the delegates to the campus Student Congress decide to override the referendum…
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Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien, Filmmaker and Artist
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Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan, Politician and Civil Rights Leader
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Sara Josephine Baker: Public Health Pioneer, 1873-1945, by Karisa Butler-Wall
An exhibit on the life of Sara Josephine Baker, a pioneering figure in the history of public health. Published originally on OutHistory in 2014.
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Baker driving an automobile (National Library of Medicine) [n.d.]
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Unveiling of bust of Baker at Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, Founders' Day event attended by Jane Wasey, sculptor; Dr. Leona Baumgartner, I.A.R. Wylie (who presented the bust to the College), Dean Marion Fay, Dr. Louise Pearce,…
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Baker seated at her desk, February 2, 1925 (Library of Congress)
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The film Making Love opens
The movie Making Love opens. Directed by Arthur Hiller, a major Hollywood director, it was the first mainstream Hollywood film to treat the issue of being gay and coming out in a sympathetic fashion. It tells the story of a doctor who realizes he…
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German Women's Organization Endorses Homosexual Law Reform
Doctors Magnus Hirschfeld, a prominent sexologist and activist for gay freedom, and Helen Stocker, an activist for woman’s rights, address the League for the Protection of Maternity and Sexual Reform on the need to decriminalize sex between…
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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin, Politician
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Grant Wood
Grant Wood, Artist
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John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger, Film Director
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Sheila Kuehl
Sheila Kuehl, Lawyer and Politician
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Gay Liberation Activism in Brazil
Members of Somos, one of Brazil’s earliest gay liberation groups, participate in a public debate about minorities and discrimination at the University of Sao Paolo. Over three hundred people attended the event, the first such large public discussion…
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Protest Against U.S. Immigration Policy
Two legislators from the Netherlands present Henry Waxman, a liberal Democratic member of the US Congress, a petition signed by an overwhelming majority of the members of the Netherlands Parliament. The petition calls on the United States to stop…
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Constructing the Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual System, by Jonathan Ned Katz
This feature explores the human production of the terms and concepts "heterosexual," "homosexual," and "bisexual," which are presented here as evidence of the construction of a historically specific social order or…