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CaliforniaChronicle.com – By Fintan O’Toole
Culture Shock : The late Danny La Rue was one of the best known, but Ireland has produced its fair share of cross-dressers who corssed boundaries
Before he became Danny La Rue, Danny Carroll made his de…
BayWindows.com – by Rachel Kossman – Bay Windows Contributor
A diverse crowd of 25 gathered on the second floor of the United South End Settlements (USES) building on May 18 to discuss the beginnings of what will eventually become the first document…
NewsWeek.WashingtonPost.com – Anthony Stevens-Arroyo
The Bishop of Scranton threatened to cancel mass during Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, one of the largest in the country, if organizers honored “an abortion-rights supporter” — ostensibly V…
SFist.com – By SFistRichard
Timecapsule: October 31, 1963
On Halloween night, the “Black Cat Cafe” — that notorious, flamboyant and most historically significant of San Francisco’s gay nightspots, held a final celebration before closing down for…
PlayBackSTL.com – Written by Sarah Boslaugh
The modern gay pride movement is often traced back to the Stonewall Riots which took place in New York City in June 1969, but that famous event was preceded by almost three years by a similar uprising …
LATimes.com – Posted by Larry Harnisch
‘T.C. Jones is the greatest female impersonator I have seen and heard since Julian Eltinge–and that’s going back a long way.’ –Philip K. Scheuer, Los Angeles Times
He was one of the newest — and certainly…
TCDailyPlanet.net – By David Seitz , TC Daily Planet
Like many such celebrations, the Twin Cities Pride celebration takes place in June, in part to commemorate New York City’s Stonewall Inn uprising, which began in June 1969, and is widely recogniz…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Yasmin Nair
Recent historical work reveals that Stonewall was not a singular moment of queer insurgency and that the mid-to-late 1960s was an era of queer radical political potential. According to Susan Stryker, professo…
ZMag.org – By Michael Bronski
Although I’ve only been teaching gay and lesbian studies for eight years, my involvement in writing about it (and participating in it) stretch back almost four decades. I have learned innumerable things during that time…
TheTicker.org – Hsi Chan
On March 27, Professor Hilde Hoogenboom from the University of Albany gave a presentation to Baruch students on Nadezhda Durova, a noblewoman who served in the Russian military during the early 18th century. Sponsored by Bar…