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Pantagraph.com – By Karen Walters
Pontiac – By mid-October, the house that helped to conceal the true identity of a Civil War soldier will return to its hometown. The Village of Saunemin plans to move the Albert Cashier/Jennie Hodgers house from Pon…
IndyWeek.com – Jim Baxter
Was it a march or parade? Would the mayor be recalled?
This year’s PrideFest promises to be a mix of fun, parades, information and celebration. But it hasn’t always been that way.
The first PrideFest was in Durham in …
GoTriad.com – By Lorraine Ahearn – Staff Writer
On Feb. 4, 1957, a Guilford County grand jury emerged from its closed session and issued a bundle of indictments of a scope unlike any before or since – against 32 men accused of being homosexual.
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Kansas.com – Beccy Tanner
When Johnnie Redding got ready for work, he didn’t wear a suit. Instead, Wichita’s first female impersonator stepped into a dress to entertain the wild and unruly.
“He had a voice like a nightingale or thrush,” said earl…
AmericanHeritage.com
When the police raided New York City?s largest gay bar 37 years ago today, on June 27, 1969, they weren?t expecting any resistance. They had raided the Stonewall Inn countless times before, and usually the patrons, fearing that …
SFGate – Wyatt Buchanan – Chronicle Staff Writer
Police officer who reached out in 1960s to be grand marshal
Elliot Blackstone is congratulated by S.F. Police Chief H… Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence members (in background) t… SF Pride Event…
BeyondChron.com – Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Yesterday, the city of San Francisco rightly honored the 40th anniversary of the Compton Riot by dedicating a plaque in the cement in front of the spot where it occurred. Compton’s Cafeteria at Turk and Taylor …
IndyBay.org – David Perry
A plaque commemorating the first known instance of transgender resistance to police harassment in the U.S. will be installed on June 22nd at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in San Francisco. A brief ceremony will begi…
The Belfast Telegraph – Ian Herbert
She came as a ?lady? to the Russian Imperial court, betrayed a French king and was the talk of every coffee house in 18th-century England. But it wasn?t until she died that the greatest scandal of Chevalier d?Eon?…