November 15 in LGBTQ History
1636: The Plymouth Colony (present-day Massachusetts) issues the first complete legal code in the colonies. “Sodomy, rapes, buggery” constitute one of eight categories of crimes punishable by death.
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November 15 in LGBTQ History
1961: Washington, DC chapter of the Mattachine Society is formed. Activist Frank Kameny is elected president. 1987: Randy Shilts‘s seminal work on the early years of the AIDS crisis, “And the Band Played On” debuts at No. 12 on the New York Times best seller list. 1989: Massachusetts becomes the second state in the U.S. … Read More
November 2 in LGBTQ History
2010: Voters in El Paso, Texas pass an initiative that strips health insurance benefits from the unmarried partners of city employees. Supporters say that their intention was to target gay city employees and their partners.
May 15 in LGBTQ History
1981: In the midst of Lesbian/Gay Awareness Week, at the University of Florida, a fraternity-circulated petition asserting, “Homosexuals need bullets-not acceptance” draws the signatures of almost fifty people. “We don’t have anything else to do,” says one of the petition’s organizers. “We’re just out here having a good time. I don’t believe in queers.” 1988: … Read More
November 24 in LGBTQ History
1967: Craig Rodwell opens the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors in the United States, the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop at 291 Mercer Street in New York City. (It moved to 15 Christopher Street in 1973.) Despite a limited selection of materials when the bookstore was first established, Rodwell refused to stock pornography and instead … Read More
November 16 in LGBTQ History
1979: Martin Sherman‘s Bent, about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, starring Richard Gere and David Dukes, begins previews on Broadway.
Bill Rosendahl (1945-2016)
To say that Bill Rosendahl wore many hats over the course of his decades-spanning career would be the height of understatement. Politician, psychiatric social worker, corporate executive, television personality, LGBT and human rights advocate, educator, mentor—the New Jersey-born son of German immigrant parents has lived a life that has the shape and heft of a novel. He … Read More
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2024 THE LAVENDER EFFECT ® hosted “Exploring LA’s Love Revolution,” a tour of the unique locations that gave birth to Los Angeles’ rich, vibrant, and little-known LGBTQ+ history. Tour-goers discovered how Los Angeles has frequently been the first and most impactful region in the global fight for equality, as the birthplace of groups like The … Read More