On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1937: Heinz Neddermeyer is expelled from Luxembourg. 1960: The first public meeting of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, based in the UK, is attended by more than 1,000 people. 1970: Edward Price, Assistant Dean of Students at the University of Texas rejected a
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1972: Gay protests (dancing, kissing, hand-holding) at Hilton Hotel in Denver (2-6 participants). 1982: Voters in Lincoln, Nebraska, vote down a gay rights ordinance. 1984: The United Methodist Church votes to ban the ordination and appointment of avowed homosexuals as ministers. 1987: The Washington
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1726: Gabriel Lawrence, William Griffin, and Thomas Wright were taken in a cart to Tyburn and hanged for sodomy. 1968: Gay Rights Demonstration at Bucks County Community College. 1969: The Scottish Minorities Group held its first public meeting. 1970: An all-women's dance,
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1805: King George III of England pardons sailor Bartlett Ambler of a sodomy conviction. 1917: The North Dakota Supreme Court sustains a conviction for cunnilingus under its sodomy law. 1968: Bucks County Community College student demonstration against cancellation of Mattachine Society speaker in Newtown,
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1909: The Kentucky Court of Appeals rules that the "crime against nature" outlaws anal sex only. 1954: The Florida Supreme Court upheld a sodomy conviction by a vote of 5-2 in the case of McElveen et al. v. State. 1970: GLF-LA protest
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1868: The term “homosexual” is written for the first time by Karl-Maria Kertbeny in a letter to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. 1897: The California Supreme Court rules that fellatio is not a "crime against nature." 1933: In Berlin young Nazis attack and destroy
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1911: Albert Cashier is moved to Soldier and Sailors Home in Quincy, Illinois 1971: Andy Warhol’s play Pork opens at the La Mama Experimental Theater in New York City. 1972: GAA-NY demonstrations at home of district attorney (75-100 participants). 1972: Gay Pride Week
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1497: Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar, gives the Ascension Day sermon in which he preaches the suppression of sodomy and the burning of men who are “sodomites.” 1895: The Regina v. Wild trial is depicted on front page of The Illustrated Police News. It
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1965: Two LGBT sit-ins and five days of Janus Society leafletting against denials of service to LGBT people at Dewey’s restaurant in Philadelphia (10 participants, 4 arrests). 1970: DOB-LA, GLF-LA, Committee for Homosexual Law Reform, Society of Anubis, and TAO demonstration against The
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1953: ONE Magazine first published by the Mattachine Society. 1965: Two LGBT sit-ins and five days of Janus Society leafleting against denials of service to LGBT people at Dewey’s restaurant in Philadelphia (10 participants, 4 arrests). 1970: Lavender Menace zap at the Second
On This Day In LGBTQ+ History: 1921: Marcel Proust publishes the first volume of Sodome et Gomorrhe. 1965: Two LGBT sit-ins and five days of Janus Society leafletting against denials of service to LGBT people at Dewey’s restaurant in Philadelphia (10 participants, 4 arrests). 1969: Los Angeles Committee for