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The AIDS Memorial Quilt: How One Cloth Made America Mourn

The AIDS Memorial Quilt: How One Cloth Made Ame...

Cleve Jones taped names to a federal building in 1985 and the AIDS Memorial Quilt was born. Today it holds 50,000 panels for 110,000 lives lost. Here is the full...

The AIDS Memorial Quilt: How One Cloth Made Ame...

Cleve Jones taped names to a federal building in 1985 and the AIDS Memorial Quilt was born. Today it holds 50,000 panels for 110,000 lives lost. Here is the full...

The Daughters of Bilitis: The First Lesbian Rights Group in America

The Daughters of Bilitis: The First Lesbian Rig...

Eight women met in a San Francisco living room in September 1955 and built the first lesbian rights organization in America. Here is the story of the Daughters of Bilitis,...

The Daughters of Bilitis: The First Lesbian Rig...

Eight women met in a San Francisco living room in September 1955 and built the first lesbian rights organization in America. Here is the story of the Daughters of Bilitis,...

The Mattachine Society: How Gay Rights Started in Secret

The Mattachine Society: How Gay Rights Started ...

Nineteen years before Stonewall, five gay men in Los Angeles started a secret society to fight for their lives. The Mattachine Society became the first lasting gay rights organization in...

The Mattachine Society: How Gay Rights Started ...

Nineteen years before Stonewall, five gay men in Los Angeles started a secret society to fight for their lives. The Mattachine Society became the first lasting gay rights organization in...

Christine Jorgensen at 100: How a GI Became a Trans Icon

Christine Jorgensen at 100: How a GI Became a T...

Christine Jorgensen would have turned 100 on May 30, 2026. In 1952, the former Army clerk from the Bronx became the first trans woman whose story landed on the front...

Christine Jorgensen at 100: How a GI Became a T...

Christine Jorgensen would have turned 100 on May 30, 2026. In 1952, the former Army clerk from the Bronx became the first trans woman whose story landed on the front...

Keith Haring: The Gay Pop Artist Who Made AIDS Visible

Keith Haring: The Gay Pop Artist Who Made AIDS ...

Keith Haring drew the radiant baby, the barking dog, and the dancing figures that became pop icons. Then he was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 and turned his art into...

Keith Haring: The Gay Pop Artist Who Made AIDS ...

Keith Haring drew the radiant baby, the barking dog, and the dancing figures that became pop icons. Then he was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 and turned his art into...

Larry Kramer: The Playwright Who Made America Face AIDS

Larry Kramer: The Playwright Who Made America F...

Larry Kramer co-founded GMHC, started ACT UP, wrote The Normal Heart, and refused to let America ignore AIDS. The real story of the playwright who built two of the most...

Larry Kramer: The Playwright Who Made America F...

Larry Kramer co-founded GMHC, started ACT UP, wrote The Normal Heart, and refused to let America ignore AIDS. The real story of the playwright who built two of the most...