RESEND: Potholes along the yellow brick road of LGBTQ history

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Inconvenient truths: Potholes along the yellow brick road of LGBTQ history The word "faggot" does not come from burning gays at the stake. The history of same-sex relationships is the history of marriage Unions between people of the same-sex are hardly new phenomena. Love is eternal. The secret lesbian couple behind a historic meeting at the White House They got LGBTQ leaders from around the country into Jimmy Carter's White House. Surrender Dorothy! For more than a century the US Navy was the worst branch for LGB people From hiring men to entrap civilians to imprisoning gay sailors for years, the Navy earned its reputation for homophobia. The ‘Imitation’ Alan Turing vs. the real Alan Turing: Victim vs. hero "The Imitation Game" portrays Alan Turing as a weak whiny, and possibly a traitor to his country. But the real Alan Turing was a hero. 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the White Night Riot. “He got away with murder!” The night the man who murdered Harvey Milk got away with murder, there were 12 incinerated police cars, 150 arrests, and dozens of arrests. A transgender man’s diaries can help us learn what San Francisco was like decades ago “Damn I’m going to be a gorgeous man,” Lou Sullivan wrote 40 years ago in one of his personal diaries. Sullivan, who died in 1991 at the age of 39 due to complications from AIDS, was a pioneering transgender activist in the 1970s and 1980s. His book Information for the Female to Male Cross Dresser […] This history-making lesbian actress played Romeo & broke many women’s hearts You've got to read about the wild, unexpected and true life of 19th century lesbian actress Charlotte Cushman — it's nothing short of incredible. History has overlooked the Gay Liberation Front’s role in Stonewall … until now The group was at Stonewall and planted the seeds that started a revolution for years afterwards. Stop saying Harvey Milk was the first out gay person elected to public office He wasn't even second. Here are the women who were first.