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Honoring Emmett Till's mother's 100th birthday, Medill launches institute
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--From a Northwestern University press release
- EVANSTON, Ill. —- November 23 marks the 100th birthday of Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was brutally lynched in the Mississippi Delta in 1955. Her decision to "let the ...
LGBT HISTORY MONTH Snapshots showcase life in queer 1970s San Francisco
- The California Historical Society is in the process of digitizing two collections of photographs and negatives from the wild and heady early days of LGBTQ liberation in San Francisco. The snapshots were discovered in boxes in ...
LGBT HISTORY MONTH Angela Davis, revolutionary
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By Victoria A. Brownworth
- "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time," said Angela Davis, 78, the country's most famous living revolutionary. She was born ...
lllinois Holocaust Museum hosts talk on Stonewall and the LGBTQ-rights movement
- On Oct. 17, Skokie's Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center hosted a "Legacy of Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement" panel discussion to kick off its latest exhibit, "Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement." ...
LGBT History Month: Staten Island museum throws open Austen's closet door
- It's been a long time coming, but officials at the Alice Austen House on New York's Staten Island have thrown open the closet door, now fully embracing the lesbian pioneer and photographer who lived in the ...
LGBT History Project: Tee A. Corinne: Photographer of lesbian sexuality
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By Victoria A. Brownworth
- Over her decades as a lesbian photographer and artist, Tee Corinne said, "I'm one of the most obscure famous artists." Famous? Yes. Obscure? Certainly not within artistic circles nor within the queer art world where she ...
Legacy Walk plaques added for Pauli Murray, Matthew Shepard
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- The Legacy Project unveiled two bronze plaques recognizing LGBTQ+ historical figures Pauli Murray and Matthew Shepard on Oct. 16. The plaques, part of Northalsted's half-mile Legacy Walk, recognized Murray and ...
Activists speak about former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's LGBTQ legacy
- LGBTQ+ advocates reflected on former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's legacy at Center on Halsted Oct. 13, discussing his role in the city's Human Rights Ordinance and outreach to the LGBTQ+ community. A display of 1980s Windy ...
LGBTQ History Month: Pauli Murray, architect of history
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By Victoria A. Brownworth
- (Note: The pronouns she/her are used in keeping with Murray's own writings, but Murray was a transmasculine and gender-nonconforming lesbian.) Some say Pauli Murray is the most important U.S. activist many have never heard of. An ...
LGBT History Month: Reclaiming 41, journey to heal notorious trauma for LGBT Mexicans
- Until recently, Alberto B. Mendoza hated 41. He cringed if his dinner bill or hotel room number had the number in it, and with the countdown to his 41st birthday, he dreaded the year to come. ...
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Pandemic Pivot: Museum launches major digital exhibit for LGBT History Month
- "In Plain Sight' offers website visitors a digital timeline of LGBT achievements including 800 entries across 10 categories Visitors to the Stonewall National Museum and Archives (SNMA) in Fort Lauderdale, one of the largest LGBT lending ...
LGBT HISTORY MONTH Pro baseball player Glenn Burke refused to live a lie
- You could say that Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out, is having a good season. In March, best-selling author Andrew Maraniss published a thoughtful biography called Singled Out: The True Story ...
LGBT History Month: Dutch gay man defied the Nazis and saved thousands
- In the final days before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazi party, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer for one last request: to spread a message after he was gone. "Let it be known," he said. "Homosexuals ...
LGBTQ History Month: Until legal ruling, Disneyland banned same-sex dancers
- Deemed the "Happiest Place on Earth," Disneyland sadly didn't live up to that billing for same-sex couples during its first three decades. Opened in 1955 by the late Walt Disney, the family-oriented amusement park was built ...
Plaque added to childhood home of Emmett Till
- On what would have been Civil Rights icon Emmett Till's 80th birthday on July 25, his childhood home in Chicago's West Woodlawn neighborhood received a historic landmark plaque, CBS Chicago reported. The plaque recognizes Till and ...
Women's Liberation Center listed on National Registers of Historic Places
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--From a press release
- NEW YORK, NYTuesday, June 29, 2021 The site of the Women's Liberation Center, located at 243 West 20th Street from 1972 to 1987, has been listed on the New York State and National Registers of Historic ...
Holocaust Memorial Museum presents "How Lesbian and Gay Resistance Leaders Defied Nazi Persecution"
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--From a press release
- To celebrate the contributions of the LGBTQ community this month, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum presents its forthcoming Facebook Live virtual event, "Pride Month: Defying Nazi Persecution," on Wednesday, June 30, at 9:30 a.m. ET. The ...
PASSAGES Fritzie Fritzshall, Auschwitz survivor, innovator in Holocaust education
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--From a press release
- As a Survivor of the Holocaust and the President of Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Fritzie Fritzshall devoted her life to combatting hatred and prejudice, inspiring people to become Upstanders instead of bystanders, and speaking ...
LGBTQ pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes to be honored at Stonewall Inn on June 24
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--From a press release
- (New York, NY, June 15, 2021)... On June 24, 2021, The International Imperial Courts of the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico and the National LGBTQ Task Force will again come together to honor LGBTQ pioneers, trailblazers, and ...
Chicago History Museum to mark Juneteenth with event, free admission
- The Chicago History Museum will celebrate Juneteenth with free museum admission for all and a virtual event, "Resounding Liberty: Remembering Juneteenth." The virtual celebration includes a civic talk on the history and national impact of Juneteenth; ...
National AIDS Memorial brings leaders of AIDS movement together to mark 40 years
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--From a press release
- San Francisco (Saturday, June 5, 2021) — Leaders of the AIDS movement came together in the National AIDS Memorial — the nation's federally-designated memorial to AIDS — to mark forty years since the first cases of ...
Wisconsin LGBTQ History fundraiser honors 60th anniversary of LGBTQ uprising
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--From a press release
- Milwaukee, WI - As Pride Month kicks off today across America, the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project is launching a campaign to celebrate the birthplace of "pride" in Wisconsin, recognize a turning point in local LGBTQ history, ...
Jonathan Ned Katz talks new book, LGBTQ history, state of the world
- Author, historian and activist Jonathan Ned Katz will come out with a new book, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, on May 18. The biography is centered on the life of Adams, a Jewish lesbian immigrant, and also ...
Home of LGBTQ pioneers Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin first San Francisco lesbian history landmark
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--From a press release
- SAN FRANCISCO On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance authored by District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman to designate the former home of pioneering LGBTQ and civil rights activists Phyllis Lyon ...
1971: The Chicago Daughters of Bilitis
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Excerpt from Chicago After Stonewall: Gay Lib to Gay Life
- An excerpt from Chicago After Stonewall: Gay Lib to Gay Life, a new book by St Sukie de la Croix. You can buy the book from Amazon.com, all good bookstores, and for a signed copy, rattlinggoodyarns.com ...
Victory Institute launches LGBTQ political history website
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--From a press release
- Washington, DC Today LGBTQ Victory Institute the only organization dedicated to identifying and supporting LGBTQ public leaders released its new website "Pride & Progress: A history of LGBTQ political power in the United ...
Chicago Cultural Center historic interiors to be restored for June reopening
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--From a press release
- CHICAGO, IL Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) today announced the historic restoration of the landmark Chicago Cultural Center to reclaim two lost interiors decorated by the ...
Windy City Times publishes book of historical newspaper covers
- Windy City Times newspaper, founded in 1985, is publishing a limited-edition, four-color book featuring hundreds of covers from its own archives, plus covers from other LGBTQ Chicago media, including Outlines, BLACKlines, En La Vida, Identity and ...
Windy City Times publishes book of historical newspaper covers
- Windy City Times newspaper, founded in 1985, is publishing a limited-edition, four-color book featuring hundreds of covers from its own archives, plus covers from other LGBTQ Chicago media, including Outlines, BLACKlines, En La Vida, Identity and more ...
LGBTQ+ History Podcast Queer Serial launches third and final season
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--From a press release
- Queer Serial, the acclaimed LGBTQ+ history podcast produced and hosted by 2021 GLAAD Award nominee Devlyn Camp, returns Monday, April 12, with its final season. Season 3 picks up in 1963, as militant gay activists, taking ...
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