Christopher Street West, Hollywood

In 1975, I moved to Claremont, CA to begin what would become a 35 year teaching career as a professor of sociology at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. I graduated college in 1969, the same month as the…

Memories of the 1987 March on Washington - August 2013

The 1987 March on Washington was an incredibly important episode in my intensifying involvement in the gay and lesbian movement and my efforts to link my sexuality and my politics. From 1981 to 1985, I had been a mostly straight student at Wesleyan…

Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga, Writer and Social Justice Activist

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality

[ID: a book cover of Hanne Blank’s Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality. The title and the author’s name are presented in medium blue letters and are positioned at the top and bottom of the cover. The subtitle is presented in…

President Clinton signs into law the Defense of Marriage Act.

President Clinton signs into law the Defense of Marriage Act. It defined marriage in federal law as the union of a man and a woman, and gave states the authority to refuse recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states. Supported by an…

George Mosse

George Mosse, historian

The first time I saw my state capital, I was wearing pride rings.

The event was called "Michigan Pride: Joining Together for Justice," and the date was June 25, 1995. When I did a little research to find the date of this march, my first Pride March, I was surprised that it wasn't earlier in my…

Philadelphia Girls' High

25th Anniversary of Stonewall

I marched in the 1994 NYC Pride Parade. Yay.

Mark Segal Disrupting Republican Dinner

Rear notes: "Gay Power demonstrator [me: that's Mark Segal] interrupts Clark McGregor at Republican Party dinner." 11/1/72. Photog Don Camp for phil Eve Bull. Urb Arch, Temple.

Butler Library, Columbia

Gayzette

Gay Activists Alliance

1970-5?

Jerry Curtis Addressing Crowd, Pride 1972

Kay Tobin Lahusen, 1972. NYPL Digital Library.

Homophiles of Penn State

Kay Tobin Lahusen. Pride, Philadelphia, 1972.

Mark Segal and Harry Langhorne

1972

My First Pride Parade

My first Gay Pride Parade was in June of 2007 in Chicago.

Drum June 1965

Cover, Voyage from Lesbos

Author Robert Robertiello was a New York Psychiatrist; his book was published 1959. A review of his book by Lewis W. Brabdt in The Psychoanalytic Review says it all: “This is, as the very well chosen title indicates, the report of the…

Ladder Cover, June 1966 with photo before and after

Original photo of Ernestine Eckstein, VP of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) photographed in early 1960s and the cover of Ladder built around said photo. Photograph by Kay Tobin Lahusen; Ladder was edited by Lahusen's partner, Barbara Gittings, until…