LGBT History: March 30, 1973 – Jill Johnston’s “Lesbian Nation: The Feminist...
March 30th, 1973: Jill Johnston’s book of essays Lesbian Nation is published which calls for a lesbian movement separate from the gay rights movement. A writer for The Village Voice Johnston is one of...
View ArticleSeptember 21, 1955: Pioneer Lesbian Group Daughters of Bilitis Founded by Del...
On September 21st, 1955, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon had been together as lovers for three years when they complained to a gay male couple that they did not know any other lesbians. The gay couple...
View ArticleToday In Gay & Lesbian – April 30th, 1877: Happy Birthday Alice B. Toklas!
April 30, 1877 – Alice B. Toklas (above pictured left) is born in San Francisco. Toklas will become a lover of Gertrude Stein and they will become one of history’s most legendary lesbian couples....
View ArticleGAY HISTORY – April 7, 1907: Violette Leduc French Lesbian Feminist Author...
Violette Leduc was born in Arras Pas de Calais, France in 1907. Despite being a lesbian feminist she hated being a woman and continually went after gay men. One of them, Maurice Sachs told her to write...
View ArticleThat Time When the U.S. Naval Investigative Service Went Searching For Our...
Nobody knows where and when the expression actually started but everyone knows that being a "Friend of Dorothy's" is gay slang for a gay man. The post That Time When the U.S. Naval Investigative...
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