On July 15, 2003, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy put five gay men in straight America's living rooms every week. Visibility was not the finish line.
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@twiqh.bsky.socialOn July 15, 2003, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy put five gay men in straight America's living rooms every week. Visibility was not the finish line.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/PtyWxQisLOI
@twiqh.bsky.socialIn 1981 a palimony suit outed Billie Jean King and every endorsement vanished overnight. What she did in the twenty four hours after is the whole story.
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@twiqh.bsky.socialIn 1957 the US government fired astronomer Frank Kameny for being gay. In 2009 it apologized to his face. What he did in between changed everything.
@twiqh.bsky.socialOn July 1, 1972, about 2,000 people walked from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park in Britain's first Pride march. They had no guarantee of safety. They went anyway.
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@twiqh.bsky.socialMarsden Hartley lost his lover in 1914 and was not allowed to mourn him out loud. So he hid the entire eulogy inside an abstract painting.
@twiqh.bsky.socialBonnie Bleskachek became the first openly lesbian fire chief of a major US city in 2004. Two years later she was demoted. She put the uniform back on anyway.
@twiqh.bsky.socialDorothy Arzner was the only woman directing steadily in Hollywood for two decades. She wore suits, loved one woman for 40 years, and invented the boom mic.
@twiqh.bsky.socialBorn September 6, 1860, Jane Addams opened Hull House in 1889 with Ellen Gates Starr, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and spent 40 years with Mary Rozet Smith.
@twiqh.bsky.socialSylvia Rivera helped launch the modern gay rights movement, then got booed off its stage. She built a home for homeless trans kids anyway.
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