Historians are happy to share pictures of the real lives of Native Americans when the settlers came

#OnThisDay in 2009

President #Obama signs a referendum allowing the same-sex partners of federal employees to receive benefits, but not full health coverage. This is Obama's first major initiative in his campaign promise to improve gay rights.

#LGBTHistory #LGBTQ

Read about Harvey Milk over on MMAA's Facebook page: facebook.com/modernmilitary

#PRIDE2023 #LGBTHISTORY #LGBTPRIDE #LGBTQPRIDE #LGBTQHISTORY

#OnThisGayDay - 14th June 1961
Singer, songwriter, DJ & actor #BoyGeorge born in #Kent , England, UK
#LGBT History #QueerHistory #LGBT #LGBT Q #LGBT QIA+ #Pride Month #Pride

#wevealwaysbeenhere #lgbthistory

10 LGBTQ+ historic places to visit, beyond Stonewall #ILoveGay NYC 🗽 #ILoveGay San Francisco - Activists are working to preserve sites that reveal the deep roots of America’s LGBTQ+ communities. #LGBThistory #LGBTQhistory NYC LGBT Sites
washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/lg…

Dorothy Towers - A Community in the Sky talesofthesecondcity.wordpress.com/2023/06/18/dor…

#gay #LGBT Q #LGBT #gay birminghamuk #gay birmingham #lgbtqbirmingham #lgbtbirmingham #birminghamgayscene #dorothytowers #gay history
#lgbthistory #birminghamhistory #electriccinema #Birmingham @SouthsideDistp

Such rich displays from London Metropolitan Archives Wellcome Collection Bishopsgate Institute important to #LGBTHistory on now Tate Britain
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#OnThisDay in 1987

With the retirement of A.M. Rosenthal from The New York Times, the word “gay” can now be used by reporters as a synonym for “homosexual” without quotation marks. Rosenthal had banned such use for 15 years.

#LGBTHistory #LBGTQ

These movies actually got the history part right, see which ones made the list.

#OnThisDay in 1990
12 Marines shouting “Kill the fags!” attack 3 gay men outside a Washington, D.C. gay bar leaving 2 of the men unconscious. 2 of the soldiers are later “disciplined” with fines of $400 each & a 30-day restriction to barracks.
#LGBTHistory #LGBTQ

On this day 20 years ago, Michael Leshner and Michael Stark became the first gay couple to be legally married in Canada after same-sex marriage was legalized in Ontario 🏳️‍🌈

#lgbthistory #gaymarriage

Amazing San Francisco #GayBars From #LGBTHistory #ILoveGay History 📜 #ILoveGay Bars 🍸 - As you carefully pick your venue for this year's Pride celebrations, a minute to remember some foundational SF gay bars.
kqed.org/arts/13930323/…

#OnThisGayDay - 14th June 1955
Presenter, actor, comedian, author & drag queen #PaulOGrady , aka #LilySavage , born in #Tranmere , #Birkenhead , #Cheshire , England, UK
#LGBT History #QueerHistory #LGBT #LGBT Q #LGBT QIA+ #Pride #Pride Month

#OnThisDay 2016

At the popular gay #Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS uses an automatic weapon to kill 49 people and wound 53. It was the deadliest shooting by one person in U.S. history.

#LGBTHistory #LBGTQ

June 17
#OnThisDay in 1926
Eve Adams, a Polish-Jewish émigré, ran a tea room mostly for lesbians. She was arrested, tried, convicted of obscenity, & deported back to Poland. In 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis, transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and was murdered.
#LGBTHistory

Grandpa Knows Everything.
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#grandpa #fathersday

The first B*tchy History #pridemonth episode drops tomorrow at 8:00 AM EST. #queerhistory #lgbtqia #lgbthistory #americanhistory

#OnThisDay in 2020
The Supreme Court rules that federal law protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination. The landmark ruling extends protections to millions of workers nationwide and is a defeat for the Trump administration.

#LGBTHistory #LBGTQ

#OnThisGayDay - 15th June 1915
Painter #EugeneJansson died in #Skara #VästraGötaland #Sweden
#LGBT History #QueerHistory #LGBT #LGBT Q #LGBT QIA+ #Pride Month #Pride

#OnThisGayDay - 15th June 1915
Poet & playwright Grand Duke #KonstantinKonstantinovich , Grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of #Russia , died in #Pavlovsk Palace #Pavlovsk #Russia nEmpire
#LGBT History #QueerHistory #LGBT #LGBT Q #LGBT QIA+ #Pride Month #Pride

June 16
#OnThisDay in 1988

The Southern Baptist Convention in San Antonio passes a resolution calling homosexuality ''a manifestation of a depraved nature'' & “an abomination”.
And yet, homosexuals continue to belong to Southern Baptist churches. Go figure.

#LGBTHistory #LBGTQ

#OnThisGayDay - 12th June 2016
An attack on #Pulse nightclub in #Orlando #Florida , killed 49 people & injured 58 others
#RememberTheirNames
#LGBT #LGBT Q #LGBT QIA+ #LGBT History #LGBT Stories #QueerHistory #QueerStories #Pride Month #Pride