One hundred eleven years ago, a handsome 19-year-old sailor named Homer Baker with medium brown hair and blue eyes, just under 5’10” and weighing 158 and a half pounds, sailed into San Francisco harbor aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey where he’d been…
For the past five years, since the release of the exceptionally successful yet execrable film The Imitation Game which grossed $234 million on a $14 million budget, this is the image of Alan Turing that most people who saw the film seem to remember…
Errors in published histories, misreading, selective perception, willful historical fiction on the big screen, little screen, and web; alternative facts simply made up to suit various agendas; and the desire to believe what some wish to be true have created…
Thinking of Disney classics, many things quickly come to mind: romances, frog princes, girls being rescued (perhaps today even rescuing themselves), and many other archetypes, but certainly not a cult drag queen. Well, in the case of The Little Mermaid…
In the 1960s and 1970s, Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, had a way of treating LGBTQ people: electroshock therapy. In a revealing story from the Belfast Telegraph, a former patient given the pseudonym “John” shares his experience after he…
As another presidential candidates town hall on LGBTQ issues approaches – with the first out major candidate – let us remember when not only were there no out LGBTQ elected officials, but no out gays had ever been allowed to speak from…
As the Supreme Court considers three LGBTQ rights cases this term, we are reminded of the first test case against sodomy laws, and efforts in 1976 related to it to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In an historic 1964 speech to…
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