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Last night was the final day of operation for the Starlite Lounge, the oldest black-owned gay bar in New York. A fixture since the 1960s, the business was forced to close after the building was sold in 2009. Efforts to have the bar declared a landmark were unsuccessful and the Starlite was not able to [...]
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A piece of gay history was recently made available online. CBS aired The Homosexuals on March 7, 1967. Hosted by Mike Wallace, it was the first major television special dedicated to homosexuality. Considered a pioneering broadcast at the time (homosexuality was still classified as a mental illness in 1967), viewing it today is a bittersweet [...]
Carl Bean is a treasure and inspiration. As the founder of Unity Fellowship Church, he has created a platform for black LGBTs to fulfill their spiritual needs in an affirming environment. Originally centered in Bean’s home in 1982, Unity Fellowship churches now exist in fifteen cities. Prior to his ministry, Bean recorded one of the [...]
The subject of the newest American Masters series is Sam Cooke, a singer whose legacy should be studied by anyone with an interest in African-American history and culture. His career paralleled the development of black music as a critical and commercial force. Starting out with the Soul Stirrers, Cooke was a gospel superstar when he [...]
History was made on January 8 when Mia Love was sworn in as mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah before a crowd of 120 people. She is the first black woman to be elected mayor in the state’s history. Love previously served on the Saratoga Springs city council, but her victory was still something of a [...]
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Sly Stone is an artist you should already be familiar with. As the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, he fused rock, soul, and pop to capture the public imagination and was a prime example of black music’s increasing sophistication. His commercial peak was between 1968 and 1973, when he recorded classics such as [...]
Aside from South Africa writing support for gay marriage into its constitution, you don’t often hear positive LGBT news about Africa. So it’s great to discover people who are standing up for themselves in the face of circumstances much more challenging than those faced by people in the United States. Despite homosexuality being illegal in [...]
A new article on gay writer and activist Larry Kramer mentions his latest project, The American People. This is not your average history book. A 4000 page behemoth that has yet to be published, the book has already earned attention for Kramer’s claim that it will prove that George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Abraham Lincoln [...]
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Congratulations are definitely in order to Annise Parker, who won a run off election in the Houston mayoral race. With the victory, Houston becomes the largest city to be governed by an openly gay person. Some consider her election an upset. Her opponent, Gene Locke, was a former civil rights activist supported by business interests, [...]
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