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May 10, 2018
These trendsetting lesbian lovers fled 1920s America for Paris and lived their best life
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Apr 30, 2018
Ellen DeGeneres came out in front of nearly 42 million people
The groundbreaking show may have lost…
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Apr 13, 2018
This Harlem Renaissance writer seemed to live an ordinary life — but her diaries revealed years of passionate lesbian…
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Mar 27, 2018
This Harlem Renaissance star dressed in drag, sang dirty songs, and hit the town with three ladies on her arm
Gladys Bentley proudly married a woman, then said she was ‘cured’ and married a man
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Feb 24, 2018
A photographer’s tender rebuke of 1960s homophobia
Anthony Friedkin showed us gay America when few others would
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Feb 14, 2018
When a loudmouthed DJ tried to kill disco, the homophobic and racist implications were impossible to ignore
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Feb 8, 2018
Boxer Emile Griffith took on a homophobic opponent in the ring, and killed him
The death of Benny Paret haunted Griffith for the rest of his life
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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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Jan 28, 2018
A homophobic slur before the fight, a barrage of death blows in the ring
Did Emile Griffith’s outrage…
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Jan 8, 2018
Dressed in drag, this Harlem Renaissance entertainer wowed audiences with all-night performances
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