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“…he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” – Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom (1995) The eyes, ears, and hearts of the world are...
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Breaking the Chains of Homosexual Oppression: Girouard and Tremblay’s 1973...
LP album art for Giourard and Tremblay. Thanks to Pierry Dury for his permission to reproduce the album cover. See more of his photographic work here. [Image Description: 1973 LP album art for Giourard...
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Video of Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans applying for a marriage license. Last week I interviewed Donna Burkett, an African American butch lesbian who spent her lifetime working in factories because...
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The Trouble with Invoking Jim Crow to Fight for LGBT Issues
Pink Panthers Movement’s Response to the Arizona Anti-Gay Law Arizona’s new bill allowing for discrimination based on sexual orientation is rightfully attracting a lot of pushback from LGBT activists....
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The “Sex” In Sexual Revolution
One of the best things about coming out as a lesbian in 1989 was that for the first time in my life wanting and having sex was a positive, not a negative, value. As a teenager I thoroughly enjoyed...
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Neither Sin Nor Civil Rights: Ethel Sawyer’s Study of a Lesbian Community
Black and white portrait of Ethel Sawyer around the time she submitted her 1965 research essay at Washington University. In 1965 24-year-old Ethel Sawyer completed the first known academic study of an...
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