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Feb 17, 2018
The history of gendered children’s toy marketing
Barbie was based on a weird German sex doll
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Feb 16, 2018
J. Edgar Hoover’s war on black artists
For five decades, the U.S. government systematically spied on black artists. Ironically, in some cases they inadvertently helped amplify their voices.
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Jan 30, 2018
A teen photographer’s gut-wrenching response to 1960s homophobia
Anthony Friedkin stood up for his…
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Sep 28, 2017
When LBJ’s closest aide was caught in a gay sex sting, the president caved — the first lady stood up
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Sep 22, 2017
One of America’s smartest magazines published a Molotov cocktail how-to in 1967
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Sep 21, 2017
For years, there was Playboy for blind people, then a Republican congressman tried to kill it
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Sep 20, 2017
This black father won equal education for his daughter, 100 years before the Supreme Court’s ruling
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Sep 18, 2017
In 1956, the racist governor of Mississippi started a secretive commission to fight integration
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Aug 16, 2017
This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s
Protests, parades…
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Jun 10, 2017
Watch: The creators of the original Wonder Woman were visionary feminists
And part of a polyamorous triad
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