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This photo and headline accompanied an article from the October 15, 1970 issue of Jet magazine.
...However, decades prior to this bold public display of queer affection, African American female couples in New York strategized alternative ways to obtain marriage licenses in the 1920s and 30s: No comment yet.
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Never one to shy away from a scandal, controversy or unorthodox marketing scheme, in 1994, Ikea aired a commercial featuring two men shopping for a dining room table, the first... Via Matt Skallerud, Deanna Dahlsad Delete the scoop?
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An assignment for Advanced Digital! We were supposed to make a gif portrait of a historical figure. I chose Julie d’Aubigny, 17th century swordsmaster and opera singer, responsible for the deaths of at least ten men in duels, and openly bisexual. After her lover was placed into a convent by the girl’s parents, d’Aubigny took the vows to enter the convent as a novice, then rescued her lover and set the convent on fire to cover their escape. Dang. Via Deanna Dahlsad Delete the scoop?
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Devoted to the one glorious, gorgeous photoshoot of two Victorian boys with flowers in their hair.... Delete the scoop?
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have won an acceptance in the UK that would have been hard to imagine when sex between men was decriminalised 40 years ago; a similar situation prevails in many other developed countries. At the same time the oppression of LGBT people continues. This article will look at how this situation developed and comment on some recent debates, in particular those that have accompanied the ‘war on terror’. Delete the scoop?
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The Female Impersonation Galleries is for photos, memorabilia, etc, for selected individual performers, where they achieved a certain prominence. Delete the scoop?
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According to Bill Kristol and Rick Santorum and other pundits, there's one reason for a surge in American support for gay marriage: television. But the question is: Which television show? We crunched the numbers. Via Pete Delete the scoop?
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In 1997, DeGeneres chose a very public forum — her television sitcom — to announce, "I'm gay." The entertainer's career has tracked the seismic shift in public opinion on gays and same-sex marriage. Via Pete Delete the scoop?
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What sorts of things did gay men get up to in the past, and how much did these differ from what we get up to today? Does gay sex have a history, or do the forms of pleasure remain the same across centuries? Have some tastes declined, and new tastes arisen? Delete the scoop?
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March 2, 5:28 PM
It's not really lesbian when they're being paid to pose. How many women became lesbians for hire?
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This was on display at the SFMoMa a few years ago.
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Full frontal male nudity. Delete the scoop?
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pflagmom: Via Deanna Dahlsad, Gracie Passette 
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February 27, 2:35 PM
Issues of civil rights are not just a "race" issue we are all here together.
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Netsuke or ‘Roots for fastening’ is a miniature yet exotic toggle, used in combination with the Obi to hold the Sagemono, a purse, pouch or an ‘Inro’ which is suspended by an elaborately carved Netsuke. To keep the Sagemono from slipping, the bead or Netsuke was used with the silken cord to keep it in place. Delete the scoop?
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One hundred twenty adult erotic postcards; all persuasions (some homoerotic), some interracial, various positions, early 20th C. 3 1/4\\\" x 5 1/4\\\". Delete the scoop?
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Whatever has inspired the sudden decision to drop trousers before the camera, this joker’s companion looks rather delighted, and the fellow on the far left seems about to join in! A decidedly strange... Delete the scoop?
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold (Penguin, 1993) is an ethnography of the Buffalo lesbian community/-ies, by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis. If you haven't heard of this book and are interested in understanding more of ... Via Jill Wahai Delete the scoop?
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Burlesque performer and LGBT activist's biopic, Satan’s Angel: Queen of the Fire Tassels, will be released on DVD on March 5, 2013. Delete the scoop?
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There are many ways of telling the history of universal computation, and many origins of the technologies we now consider computational machines. Via andzeff Delete the scoop?
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The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives is charting the history of LGBTQ activism in Toronto and across the country through an ongoing online gallery called The Pin Button Project, and a physical exhibit called Pushing Buttons at the CLGA. Delete the scoop?
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