Category: Issues
The Castro Sweep: Martial law in the Castro
Cover Photo: Rick Gearharter, October 6, 1989. It started out as a routine protest by the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT/UP). The organization had…
Leonard Matlovich (1943 – 1988)
On September 8, 1975, Leonard Matlovich appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline, “I Am a Homosexual,” catapulting him into the national…
Origins of the hanky code
In the early 1970s, some gay men — particularly in the leather scene — began to wear colorful handkerchiefs to signal their sexual interests (e.g.,…
Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011)
On March 23, 2011, the gay community lost one of its earliest staunch celebrity advocates, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, two time Academy Award winner, one of the…
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