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GLBT Central Florida history exhibit chronicles victories and losses

GLBT Central Florida history exhibit chronicles victories and losses | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
In Joel Strack's words, an exhibit of Central Florida gay history at the Orange County Regional History Center
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England’s ‘queer history’ celebrated with LGBT landmarks

England’s ‘queer history’ celebrated with LGBT landmarks | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Six LGBT landmarks across England have been given special status to celebrate the country's "queer history".
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Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long?

Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long? | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
For my generation of American gay men, the AIDS epidemic was a second Vietnam War. A long-overdue historical survey of the era has finally arrived.
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A quiet campaign is placing gay people and their rights struggle in U.S. history

A quiet campaign is placing gay people and their rights struggle in U.S. history | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

For decades, visitors to Independence Hall in Philadelphia were told one main story: This was where the country’s Founding Fathers enshrined Americans’ inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But now, an additional human rights story is being told at the symbolic birthplace of the United States: that of Reminder Days, one of the earliest public protests against LGBT discrimination.

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Tour guides talk about the primly dressed demonstrators who marched past the Liberty Bell on July 4 for five years in the 1960s, reminding the public that gay people lacked basic rights. In the visitors’ center, there are lectures and a slide show about the protests. And a state-installed marker outside the hall notes that the demonstrations helped transform a local campaign into a new civil rights movement.

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LGBT History Month: Museum updates its history of Alice Austen

LGBT History Month: Museum updates its history of Alice Austen | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Tucked away on the shore of Staten Island is a handsome house that was saved from demolition in the 1980s and today is on the National Register of Historic Places. But it's who lived there and who she lived with that is most interesting to LGBTs.

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Alice Austen was one of America's earliest and most prolific female photographers. She lived in the house, called Clear Comfort and now formally known as the Alice Austen House, with her mother when she was growing up, and later, with her longtime partner, Gertrude Tate. That the women didn't consider themselves lesbians is not lost on historians, who are now working to reinterpret Austen's story to more fully include Tate.

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The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way For Stonewall

The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way For Stonewall | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
The queens had finally had enough: In August 1966—fifty years ago this month—transgender and gender-nonconforming customers at Gen
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A Peek Inside Berlin's Queer Club Scene Before Hitler Destroyed It

A Peek Inside Berlin's Queer Club Scene Before Hitler Destroyed It | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

A new book tells the true stories behind Cabaret, and what was possibly the most thrilling gay party scene the world has ever known.

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