Although it’s hard to say for sure given the burgeoning nature of the gay rights movement at the time, the protests outside the U.S. Army’s Whitehall Street induction center in 1964 are generally considered to be the first public demonstrations…
In 1962, Illinois became the first state in the nation to remove sodomy laws from its criminal code. The historic legislation occurred after the American Law Institute put together a list of recommendations called the Model Penal Code in an…
Victoria Beckham has made an effort to appear more curvy, partaking in bum workouts and designing a new line of clothes to emphasis an hour glass figure.
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One, Inc. v. Olesen was the first U.S. Supreme Court case that involved gay rights—and it won, marking a triumphant moment for the emerging liberation movement. The ruling occurred in 1958 when the high court overturned a federal district court’s…
Businessman Rupert Easter sold his 19th century detached home in Kent and moved into a mobile home after his marriage to ex Gillian Easter fell apart in 2016, a court heard
James Baldwin published “Go Tell It on the Mountain” in 1956, offering the world a novel that was “pivotal in American gay literature,” according to many critics. Although the theme of homosexuality is never outrightly expressed, the subtext is hard…
In 1955, there weren’t any lesbian political rights groups in the United States until the Daughters of Bilitis formed in San Francisco, making history as the first group of its kind. What began as a safe space for women to…
Leading household and specialty batteries manufacturer Energizer Holdings (ENR) posted better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal second quarter and raised its top-line growth outlook for the fiscal year. However, the company...
Gender confirmation surgeries (called “sex reassignment” at the time) had been performed prior to Christine Jorgensen. However, the transgender woman from the Bronx was the first person to become famous for it, bringing awareness and resources to the trans community…
When biologist Alfred Kinsey published “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” in 1948, he asserted that approximately 37% of men at the time had engaged in homosexual activities at least once. That, along with other findings in his book, acted…
In 1936, Spanish police raided the Granada home of Federico García Lorca, a famous poet they described as a socialist prone to “homosexual and abnormal practices.” He fled to a friend’s house but they caught up with him and surrounded…
Amelia Earhart and openly gay reporter Lorena Hickok are just two of the women with whom former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was rumored to have had closeted affairs, the latter with whom she exchanged more than 3,300 letters over a…
Dora Richter was a transgender woman under the care of Magnus Hirschfeld who received the first known vaginoplasty procedure in 1931 (though Hirschfeld did not perform the surgery). Along with a number of other transgender women, Richter worked at the…
Extended Highlights of Huddersfield Town v Luton Town in the Second leg of the 2022 Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Semi-Final. An official EFL video – for more about the EFL visit www.efl.com!
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SIMON JONES: Maurice Lindsay was a pioneer who transformed the way the sport was run. He also had a pivotal impact on the success of Wigan Warriors recruiting several important figures.
A contemporary of Magnus Hirschfeld’s, Emma Goldman was an American feminist and anarchist who served as an early ally to gay rights activism. The Russian-born Jew, who emigrated to America as a teenager, was heterosexual but spent much of her…
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician who spent most of his career studying sexuality with a focus on homosexuality. He became a champion for gay rights and co-founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, the world’s first gay rights organization. Being both Jewish…
In 1886, a mixed-gender Zuni Native American named We’wha took part in a delegation to Washington D.C., where they were introduced to then-President Grover Cleveland. We’wha was a famous Lhamana, a person in Zuni culture who is assigned a male…
In 1811, the Netherlands was the first major European country of the 19th century to decriminalize homosexuality. The Dominican Republic followed suit in 1822. Over the next decade, El Salvador, Brazil, Bolivia, Portugal, Argentina, Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire), Honduras,…
During the French Revolution, the penal code outlined new crimes and their respective punishments in an effort to take sweeping power away from judges. Along with the new code came the legalization of sodomy, which was the first lift on…
The man is also suspected of hitting a police officer in April 2021 over trouble related to mask-wearing at a restaurant in a city in ...
Netflix will finally reveal "Who Killed Sara?" in the final season of its Spanish drama, coming this May.
“Public transport in Sofia, including the subway, will tomorrow run on their usual routes, on all lines. However, there will certainly be difficulties in the movement due to the announced protests.” This was said at a briefing to the media by Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova.
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Carvana is presently forbidden from selling cars in the land of Lincoln, Rivian is suing its seat supplier and Tesla’s closing the order books for a vehicle it was supposed to start manufacturing six months ago. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, May 17, 2022.