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Bars and Nightclubs
W. Dorr Legg helped found the homophile organization ONE and its magazine in the early 1950s. William Kern, a.k.a. Bill Dakota, a member of ONE,…
African Americans
In 1961 Melva Earhart re-opened the State Bar on W. Kearsley Street in Flint. By the late 1960s it had become almost exclusively gay, and hosted…
Activism
Two weeks before the Stonewall riots that would spark unprecedented gay and lesbian activism, gays from group, ONE in Detroit, held an outing at Cedar…
Books
One of the few professional football players to ever come out of the closet, David Kopay visited his first gay bar during the single year he played…
Books
Paperback pulp novels provided affirmation for lesbians and gay men in the 1950s and '60s. Although no lesbian pulps are known to have been published…
Books
Isabel Miller's novel about a romance between two women in the 1820s is considered a classic in lesbian fiction. This is the original,…