time we were talked about or mentioned was when people whispered about us or when people in school might You could clearly see how people thought of us until we started fighting for our rights.

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.

HEAL, ACT UP, AIDS CAREGIVER Gene Fedorko participated in his first Civil Rights protest in 1963. When we stopped at a red light, his head fell onto my shoulder, dead.

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

recalls founding MCC in his living room in 1968, officiating groundbreaking same-sex marriages, and fighting

He later took the fight for LGBTQ inclusion in the United Methodist Church head-on and challenged the

the age of 21, she won a seat on the Ann Arbor City Council in Michigan as a candidate of the Human Rights and political history are often overlooked, making her a vital yet underappreciated pioneer in the fight I believed he would be on the right side of justice. I was approached by the Human Rights Party and asked to run. We even talked about transgender rights.

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

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

Lick Me shows Cherry Vanilla in yet another light.

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

Thank goodness we have seen a change in that mentality, but we had to fight for it. It was a big fight, lots of demonstrations, lots of marches, lots of lobbying, and so on. ​

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.

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.

She has been involved in the fight for LGBTQ rights since she became aware of what was happening. Inspired by the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, Martha found herself in the heart of feminist

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.

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