Spring of Hope: ‘Origins’
THIS ENCORE ISSUE takes up the age-old question: when and where did the LGBT movement truly begin? The convention of dating its origins to the Stonewall Riots of June…More
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‘Warm Brothers’ in 18th-c. Berlin
In 1782, an Austrian officer reported on a network of depraved but sophisticated well-heeled men, a whole clandestine subculture organized around a specific social identity.
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The House That Hirschfeld Built
Magnus Hirschfeld qualified as a doctor in 1892, when Berlin was the host to a fledgling gay subculture.
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A Painter’s Visual Excursions
DAVID HOCKNEY: Paper Trails Edited by Shai Baitel SKIRA. 221 pages, $65. I WELCOME any chance to see artworks by David Hockney, directly or through printed reproductions; but David…More
A Sacred Order for Sexual Outsiders
George Cecil Ives founded the Order of Chaeronea in 1897, named after the site of the battle fought by the Sacred Band of Thebes, made up entirely of male lovers.
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Uranian Women, Unite!
With her speech to the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in 1904, Anna Rüling became the first known lesbian activist.
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The Making of the Mattachine
ON AUGUST 10, 1948, Harry Hay wrote a prospectus that anticipated the goals, forms, and institutions of today’s international lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement to an extent that…More
The Case for Kameny’s Place
Through the Mattachine Society of Washington, Frank Kameny charted a whole new direction for homophile organizations based on “civil liberties and social action.”
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1967: Protest at the Black Cat
IT’S THE FINAL HOUR of the year 1966. In L.A.’s Silverlake district, things are hopping at the Black Cat bar. Colored balloons cover the ceiling. Boys dance with boys,…More
What Made Stonewall Different
IN THE YEARS since the Stonewall Rebellion, an event that achieved legendary status almost before it was over, its power as a symbol has continued to rise more or…More