There were lights, synthesizers, and a drummer. What more do you need? I was like, ‘I guess you're right.’ I don’t know the right word, but it is almost like a culture of flirting. I feel very nihilistic about everything that is going on right now.

John’s efforts helped lay the groundwork for Boston’s LGBTQ+ rights movement, and his commitment to visibility This put me over the edge, and a light came on. I said, ‘Oh God, these are homosexual fantasies.’ I remember we were sitting around on a Sunday evening in a room with fluorescent lights.

NEW YORK CITY GAY LIBERATION FRONT, RADICALESBIANS Michela (right) and Flavia Rando (left) by unknown abortion attempt, Michela threw herself into activism by joining The Redstockings, a group that was fighting

I knew right then I wanted to interview him. I was not at Stonewall on the nights of the rebellion, riots, revolution. There was an apartment right next door, owned by the same landlord, and it housed five women. So I left, and then I said, 'Well, all right, I'll start a group.' Then I began noticing some guys who my gaydar was sort of saying might be gay.

PHILADELPHIA GAY LIBERATION FRONT, RADICALESBIANS Barbara Gittings (left) and Laurie Barron (right) by Laurie Barron (left) and Marcea Rosen (right) by unknown, 1975. Weinberg’s Society and the Healthy Homosexual , and I gave it to my mom, and I said, ‘You know, you might volunteered to staff the phone line at the Women's Center, because that was like—I wanted to do it on Monday nights

We're the very first ones there, on the very first night. The first night. Anything beyond that, I don’t know, because I was arrested. However, Stonewall decided to fight back that night; Rusty was attacked first, and then everybody else Johnson and Sylvia Rivera there—I was only there the first night. They tried to fight to get me out of the hospital and jail. Well, Marsha P.

Francisco Chronicle on Robert Opel's murder, July 9, 1979, courtesy of Jack Fritscher's archive (bottom right I was supposed to be in bed, but I had this picture of a tree getting hit by lightning next to my window Right away, I was supposed to meet Robert Opel. Robert Mapplethorpe put us in contact.

From an audience perspective, it was a right-on-man kind of moment. In 1974, he co-wrote The Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935) , a first-of-its-kind summation of a Their activism and advocacy has played an essential role in shaping the current state of LGBTQ rights Some of it is for the right reasons, some for the wrong reasons. My lover and I went over after the first night.

I'd had enough of school and didn't really want to go to college right away, so I figured I'd join the I spent a night, and then I ended up—I was stationed in Heidelberg, which was the U.S. We did interviews on the radio station WOC, which was talk radio, and might have done some on WHBF. We kind of shut them out real tight because we didn't want to get involved with anything potentially We used to go into their basement on Saturday nights and have dances, and we sold alcohol and that sort

They interviewed people from gay rights groups in San Francisco. Danny Kofoed (left), Bruce Voeller, and Albert Williams (right) by unknown, circa 1980. People gave some speeches about gay rights, including people from the magazine groups and the homophile They were certainly one of the most outspoken voices against gay gay rights, and so we wanted to march There were only about 150 of us there, plus the gawkers, which might have been another 75.”

Right before the play started, Beverly Grant, who played Alice, the Conqueror’s Wife, twisted her ankle actors Ondine and Louis Walden went to Ruby’s apartment and told her that she was going on later that night Her dream became realized, and she went on that night without rehearsal.

I was useless at bars, I couldn't connect with people, and I didn't dress right. I was moved by the Civil Rights Movement. The first night of the Stonewall Riots, I walked by and thought it was an anti-war demonstration that We all supported the National Liberation Front in the Vietnam War because they were fighting against

and then that's really when I began to deal with my coming out, in the context of the late 60s: civil rights the group to the National Liberation Front, which consisted of North Vietnamese individuals who were fighting gay men still feel the need to hide their sexual orientation, hide their affection, and hide who they might

Security Service, Paul became involved in social activism, particularly within the antiwar and gay rights said, “It was a very emotional experience and vindication of the fact that what we were doing was the right —August Bernadicou, Executive Director of The LGBTQ History Project Paul Breton (right) with Rev. “Reverend Troy Perry called me in the middle of the night and told me about the fire.

NEW YORK CITY GAY LIBERATION FRONT For over fifty years, John Knoebel has been fighting for gay rights

Richard Koob is an early participant in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement whose life reflects a profound We spent three nights in jail. There were 40 other people in the cell. It really made me feel that it's important to speak for what you believe is true and honest and right

One night at midnight, we went to an open mic piano-backed night at Alan Cumming’s club, Club Cumming He booked me right on the spot. I played a firewoman with Sarah Screech. Right before the play started, Beverly Grant twisted her ankle. I went on that night with no rehearsal. Right.