When I was around seven or eight, my mother started becoming mentally off, and it started progressing He would go to work, and I'd see all his eight-millimeter films, and I'd see all these older guys with I went, ‘Oh, this is cool, right? He’s taking care of these boys.’ He said, 'We were coke heads, and we sold your rights, we forged your signature, and we went on a wild

Left to right: Ginny Berson, Susan Baker, Coletta Reid, Rita Mae Brown, and Lee Schwing by Joan E. Although we were to the left of them, we saw the necessity of every wing of people working on women's rights She zapped the Second Congress to Unite Women on May 1, 1970, because they refused to acknowledge the plight I was becoming—I don't know what the right word is, maybe more alienated or feeling more isolated within We aimed at women who were thinking about becoming lesbians or wondering what lesbians might have to

groundbreaking intimacy and sexuality weekends for gay men, including a workshop called "A Different Kind of Night They also mentioned gay rights! We made the paper! They were promoting their show the next night, and the promo, which ran every hour, featured me running

As President of the University’s Gay Liberation Front, Reginald stood at the center of a fight for legitimacy I sat in the front row, right in front of the preachers. I wanted to see what was going on. I had a very good sense of right and wrong. I trusted people until they gave me a reason not to. This is not right. It made me even more radical. 

him to confront the systemic discrimination within the church, and he became a visible figure in the fight As soon as I graduated, I left the Gay Liberation Front and went right into seminary.

Lick Me shows Cherry Vanilla in yet another light.

BOSTON GAY MEN'S LIBERATION Fag Rag collective: Charley Shively, Mike Riegle, and Michael Bronksi (right He got involved in politics through the anti-war and civil rights movements and joined the gay liberation I worked on anti-Vietnam War protests and civil rights protests. I was fairly politically involved. Many of the people in GLF, myself included, came out of the anti-war and civil rights movements. They were pro-reproductive rights.

FURIES, OLIVIA RECORDS, DIANA PRESS Left to right: Lee Schwing, Coletta Reid, Ginny Berson, Jennifer

A true pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights, he played an integral role in creating the organization that systematized

Dave came of age right as the country was waking up to sexual and political revolution. Dave Hayward (right) with Greg James and Elizabeth Monahan at the 1996 Olympics by unknown, 1996. What I wanted was equal rights. I wanted human and civil rights, and essentially, I aimed to emulate Dr.

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

During this time, movements for civil rights, sexual freedom, and anti-war resistance came together to Actually, the Catholic church and the grammar school I went to were right down the street from where The next day he came to school, and over lunch, he was saying, ‘Oh, this happened to me last night.’

NEW YORK CITY GAY LIBERATION FRONT Perry (right) at 19-years-old with Dick Farnsworth (his first lover

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. ​

Martin, Phyllis Lyon founded The Daughters of Bilitis in 1955, the first lesbian civil and political rights starting as a strictly social group, the Daughters of Bilitis shifted to activism dedicated to lesbian rights

A QUEER TRUE-CRIME STORY OF MURDER, POLITICS, AND SECRETS Left to right: Jane Montgomery, David Spencer