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Monday, July 28
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Source: Belfast Telegraph , Guardian , Times (London) A leading gay rights activist has raised the temperature in the row over homosexuality by claiming there was evidence King Billy, a revered historical figure for unionists in Northern Ireland, had male lovers. Claims that the warrior monarch, portrayed in manly battle on wall paintings across Ulster, promoted handsome young retainers and chose lovers from among them, will be revived by the gay campaigner Peter Tatchell. In the Amnesty International Pride lecture in Belfast tonight, Tatchell plans to rehearse 17th-century evidence that William...
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Monday, May 26
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Source: Deutsche Welle , New York Times , TopNews.in A memorial dedicated to gay men and lesbians persecuted and killed under the Nazis will be inaugurated on May 27, the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany said. Germany’s culture minister, Bernd Neumann, and Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, who is gay, are expected to attend the dedication ceremony Tuesday. Gay activists say the memorial is long overdue. This month marks the 75th anniversary of the series of raids and public book burnings in May 1933 with which the regime of Adolf Hitler began its crusade against homosexuality. Photos of Nazi...
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Monday, May 19
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Source: AFP , Ars Technica , Canadian Press PARIS -- The campaign against AIDS marks an important anniversary this week, bringing to mind victories of science and the human spirit but also defeats, stigma and ignorance in a combat that has claimed more lives than World War I. On May 20 1983, in a paper published in the US journal Science, a team from France's Pasteur Institute, led by Luc Montagnier, described a suspect virus found in a patient who had died of AIDS. In the absence of a known infectious agent, AIDS was truly terrifying, as an essay on the anniversary in Ars Technica points out...
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Tuesday, May 06
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Source: The Local , Associated Press via Haaretz Berlin today renamed a promenade along the Spree River after Magnus Hirschfeld, a sex researcher and pioneer of the German gay rights movement. The Hirschfeld promenade is in the government quarter, diagonally across from the German chancellery. The city's Charite hospital also opened a new exhibition of his work called Sex Burns. A monument is also planned with a bust of the researcher – known as “the Einstein of sex” – who was born in 1868 in the German city of Kolberg as son of a Jewish doctor. "The tributes to Hirschfeld are a clear...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Jeffersonville News and Tribune , Louisville Courier-Journal Floyd, Indiana -- The remains of an unidentified man who was buried 13 years ago after he was found dead near an Indiana interstate highway were exhumed yesterday in an effort to determine if he may have been the victim of a serial killer. In September 1995, hunters discovered the remains of a man, likely in his 40s, in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, said Floyd County Sheriff’s Department Detective Capt. Jeff Topping at a Monday news conference. The remains -- which were estimated to have been there for between four and 12 weeks -- were...
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Monday, April 28
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Source: UMC report , Soulforce , Ledger , GLAAD Two veterans of the civil rights struggle told a rally held during a major worldwide meeting of the United Methodist Church that there are parallels between the struggles of blacks in the 1960s and those of gays and lesbians working for full inclusion in the church today. At a rally held Sunday outside the Fort Worth Convention Center where the denomination’s 2008 General Conference is meeting through May 2, retired United Methodist clergy the Rev. James Lawson and the Rev. Gil Caldwell spoke of the connection between racism and “heterosexism.” The...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Daily Collegian Album cover art by Howard Cruse image: Tom Wilson Weinberg State College, Penn -- In 1975, cartoonist Howard Cruse was a staff artist at a Birmingham, Ala. ad agency. But beginning at dawn each day until he had to leave for work, Cruse would spend his time writing and drawing comics for underground comic publications. "Underground comics meant cutting the bullshit and getting to the truth," Cruse said. Last night, Cruse spoke about his life and the comics he has created as a reflection of some of his own life experiences. Those experiences range from growing up...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: Edmonton Journal A decade after Edmonton's Delwin Vriend scored a landmark victory for gay rights in Canada, civil liberties advocates gathered downtown Sunday to celebrate both the triumph and the societal changes that followed from it. Human rights experts across the country unanimously rate the Vriend victory as one of the top 10 civil liberties decisions in Canadian history, said Lyle Kanee, a lawyer with the Canadian Jewish Congress. "Look where we're at boys and girls -- we're in City Hall," activist Murray Billett told a standing-room-only crowd assembled for...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Canadian Press , Calgary Herald , CBC News , Delwin Vriend spoke at a news conference in Edmonton Wednesday photo: Canadian Press via CBC Edmonton, AB -- Reluctant gay rights activist Delwin Vriend traveled from his home in Paris to join Edmonton gay-rights advocates today to remind the Conservative government that, exactly 10 years after the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling on his landmark case, Alberta still hasn't formally included sexual orientation in its humans-rights law. See in Qnews : Reluctant hero recalls the case that helped bring gay rights to Canada Speaking Wednesday...
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Sunday, March 30
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Source: Edmonton Journal , Edmonton Journal Delwin Vriend looks out the window of his apartment in the heart of old Paris. Across the street, a 17th-century mansion houses the Musee Picasso, the world's largest collection of Pablo Picasso's paintings. From there, it's a short walk to historic Notre Dame cathedral. In Europe's most beautiful city, Vriend seeks an unobtrusive life, the daily commute on a crowded train to his computer job in the suburbs, home at night in time for vegan dinner with his partner and perhaps a walk through the neighborhood shops. It's a long way, deliberately...
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Monday, March 10
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Source: The Age Sydney -- A NEW report on HIV predicts a more than 70% increase in new infections in the Australian state of Victoria by 2015 if nothing fresh is done to curb the spread of the disease. Many people have little recollection of the background of the epidemic in Australia, so it is worth revisiting some of these facts. In 1983 a new disease, AIDS, arrived in Australia. Its cause was unknown and there had been many deaths in the US among male homosexuals, intravenous drug users and, for some strange reason, immigrants from Haiti. There were claims of a new "black death" about...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - They were playing in a movie, but marchers who gathered in San Francisco last week to recreate a 1970s gay rights protest were not just acting. Hundreds of people came to the Castro district, long favored by homosexual residents, to be extras in a movie that stars actor Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the country's first prominent openly gay leader, who won election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. As much as on the past, the movie's marchers -- real-life members and supporters of San Francisco's famously strong gay community --...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: Los Angeles Times , with additional material Kennith H. Burns, an early leader of the Mattachine Society, one of the country's first gay rights organizations, died Dec. 16 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. He was 81. The cause was lung failure, according to a friend, Dale Olson. Burns was a founding member of the Mattachine Society, which was founded in Los Angeles in 1950 by activist Harry Hay and others. In 1953, when McCarthyism was strengthening its grip on the national consciousness, Hay and other Mattachine leaders with communist ties were ousted and Burns assumed...
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Friday, January 11
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Source: Gay.com Gay.com offers a wide-ranging survey of New York City's gay history in this article from the Spring issue of OutTraveler magazine . A brief sample: Forget Studio 54, Party Monster or even Stonewall. One of the queerest eras in New York City's history was the Roaring '20s and early '30s, when pansy balls were all the craze, cross-dressing performers were gloriously famous and the sparkling isle that was the Sodom of America was already a major gay travel destination. Traveling in the echoes of this fabulous Manhattan past in the 21st century is easier than you may...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: Ohio University Post Ohio University has already made the charts as one of the 100 best campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, but the university doesn’t offer a certificate or minor in gay studies. Associate Professor Jeremy Webster, who teaches Lesbian and Gay Literature this quarter, is one faculty member trying to expand OU’s understanding of the gay community. “I thought it was important to create a class comparable to other classes like Women and Literature and African American Literature,” Webster said. “I also think it’s important for gay and lesbian students...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: Bloomberg.com (Bloomberg) -- British Museum Director Neil MacGregor, who is drawing thousands of visitors with an exhibition on the Chinese ruler Qin Shihuangdi, plans to fete another epoch- making sovereign this year: the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Sponsored by BP Plc, Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (July 24 - Oct. 26) will feature some 200 loans from 31 countries and take place in the British Museum's specially refitted circular Reading Room. Hadrian ruled the Roman Empire from 117 to 138 A.D. and ordered the building of a wall dividing England and Scotland. Hadrian is part of "a series...
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Tuesday, January 08
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Source: Prague Daily Monitor Prague (CTK) Minister in charge of human rights and minorities Dzamila Stehlikova (Greens) opened a touring exhibition mapping some 20 years of Czech homosexual movement in the House of Ethnic Minorities in Prague Monday. "The activists have not only achieved the recognition of their human rights, but they have also won respect of society," Stehlikova told CTK. The display, to be held until January 21, offers photographs, period documents, covers of gay magazines as well as recordings from the discussion on registered partnership of same-sex couples in the...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: Seattle Times A new book on the late Seattle architect Lionel Pries goes a long way to restore some of the honor that once surrounded his name. Pries was one of the region's foremost architectural designers and instructors, an old-school Beaux Arts advocate who also led the way in Northwest modernism, designing some of the region's most distinctive and progressive houses in the 1930s to '50s. Pries (pronounced Prees) taught at the University of Washington during that time, helping shape the thinking and the skills of many of the Northwest's top architects. But after 30 years...
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Tuesday, December 11
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Source: The Advocate Gay historian Allan Berube, award-winning author of Coming Out Under Fire, died Tuesday of complications from two stomach ulcers. He was 61. Berube was an independent historian and community activist. After coming out in 1969, he joined a gay liberation collective household. He later became a member of a gay commune for craftspeople in San Francisco, where he remained for many years, according to a statement released by a friend, Wayne Hoffman. In 1978, Berube was one of the founders of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project. He produced acclaimed slide shows that...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: The Advocate Longtime gay activist Frank Kameny has sent an angry letter to former news anchor Tom Brokaw about his latest book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties. Kameny complained to the book's publisher, Random House, and the author about Brokaw's omission of anything pertaining to the seminal gay rights movement of the '60s, though references are made to civil rights, gender issues, and the environmental movement. "The only allusions to us in your entire book are the most shallow, superficial, brief references in connection with sundry heterosexuals," Kameny writes....
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Monday, November 26
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Source: Washington Post by Charles Kaiser Tom Brokaw's sprawling new book about the 1960s has a striking cover, and it includes interviews with 50 people, many of them recognizable names from the era, like Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie , Andrew Young and Gloria Steinem. Combining oral history with the author's own memories, this 662-page tome touches on nearly all the major events of that extraordinary time. Unfortunately, it tells us nothing new about any of them. The same abilities that made Brokaw a great anchorman don't serve him well in this venture. On TV he was pleasant and affable...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: Associated Press via Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a presidential advisory board, has died. He was 49. Hitt died Thursday of colon cancer at his home in West Hollywood, according to John Duran, the city's mayor and a longtime friend. Hitt was chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS during President Clinton's administration in the 1990s. "I think Scott's legacy was drawing AIDS to the attention of the president. He was uncompromising," Duran said. "He was not afraid...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: TransGriot.blogspot.com by Monica Roberts Why does the transgender community hate HRC? It’s a question I get frequently asked in GLBT settings. Considering the recent GLBT family feud erupting over ENDA, it's an appropriate one to ask as well. Before I get started trying to shed light on it, I need to point out in the name of journalistic integrity that I was the Lobby Chair for the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) from 1999-2002. The roots of the animosity start after Stonewall. In an effort to appear more 'mainstream' to the straight community, Jim Fouratt and...
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Thursday, November 01
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Source: Washington Blade At a time when gay athletes wait until their playing careers are long over before coming out -- and even then only when they have a book to hawk -- Martina Navratilova still stands out as a remarkable figure, 26 years after publicly acknowledging she is a lesbian. She endured boos from crowds, lost untold millions in endorsement deals and watched former fans sit on their hands as she walked onto the court. This week, Navratilova comes to D.C. to accept the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce/American Airlines Extra Mile Award at the chamber’s fifth annual national...
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Wednesday, October 17
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence started in 1979 as one of the first charities supporting San Francisco's gay community and has since spread to more than 600 sisters in eight countries. Mixing street theater, drag-queen elegance and community fundraising, the men of the Sisterhood support AIDS organizations, help combat hate crimes and, as they put it, "promote universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt." "We are part of the modern gay rights movement," said Sister Kitty Catalyst of San Francisco. "We are not ashamed of our differences...
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Tuesday, October 16
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Source: Chicago Tribune It was every parent's worst nightmare in an era when people didn't dream those kinds of dreams. The notorious triple homicide, which occurred 52 years ago Tuesday, is ancient history now, the stuff of yellowed newspapers and microfilm, but still elicits a shudder in Chicagoans of a certain age. The bodies of three young boys were discovered in a forest preserve on a cool October morning in 1955. Nothing before or since, not the Leopold-Loeb thrill killing, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Richard Speck or John Wayne Gacy, ever struck more fear into Chicago....
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Monday, October 15
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Source: SF Chronicle There is a photo of Felipe Elizondo as a smiling 5-year-old boy, and a photo of him as a young man on his way to serve in Vietnam. Then there are the photos of Elizondo after he became a she. "I'm a transsexual woman who had surgery in 1974 to go from male to female," said the 61-year-old Elizondo, whose first name is now Felicia. "I'm here because I'm a pioneer, a legend and a diva." Diagnosed with HIV in 1987, she also has been recognized for her years of AIDS activism. Elizondo was among dozens of men and women who brought their photo collections...
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Monday, October 01
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CHICAGO -- The second annual Gay History Project, a package of features centered on October's Gay History Month, will run in more than 30 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) newspapers, the project's founder and coordinator, Philadelphia...
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