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Fabulous at 50: celebrating the history of the Imperial Council.

Gorgeous gowns and jewels are on display throughout much of 50 Years of Fabulous, Jethro Patalinghug’s stirring documentary about the half-century history of the Imperial Council of San Francisco. But Patalinghug offers much more than just a drag show. 50 Years also…

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The battle to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness.

Any ‘Gay and Lesbian History’ college course will dive into closeted white suburban gay male representations. In fact, this group of men, sneaking around in mid-century America, have received a fair bit of Hollywood attention in recent years. There was…

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The lesbian suffragists who fought for women’s right to vote.

One hundred years ago, on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment constitutionally secured the right to vote for women — or, at least, some women. Jim Crow laws prevented African Americans from voting in the South until 1968, and first-generation Asian immigrants were barred…