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Lavender Scare: Park Police "Pervert Records"
In the years after World War II, the U.S. government launched the second “Red Scare,†when individuals such as Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin instigated widespread panic regarding the alleged spread of communism throughout the U.S. [...]
BAAITS 4th Annual Two-Spirit Powwow
The Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) organization aims to support Two-Spirit people and call attention to their presence in Indigenous communities, past and present. By organizing cultural and political events, BAAITS demonstrates the [...]
Activists Invited to ACT UP LA Meeting
On October 11, 1987, about 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Protestors criticized the inadequate response of President Ronald Reagan’s administration to the AIDS crisis and called for [...]
Gay Liberation Front Platform Statement
The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was founded in the immediate aftermath of the June 28, 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Often referred to as the Stonewall Riots, the event consisted of a series of violent altercations between the [...]
Combahee River Collective Statement
The Black feminist organization, the Combahee River Collective, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974. The group's name honors Harriet Tubman and a raid she organized during the Civil War that liberated more than 700 enslaved individuals along the [...]
Vanguard Street Sweep
In 1966, youth from the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, urban ministers, anti-poverty activists, and homophile activists helped organize Vanguard, the earliest known queer youth organization in the United States. In June of 1966, Vanguard [...]
Organizing the ACT UP Latinx Caucus
For years, the AIDS epidemic was largely ignored by the United States government, leaving the public uneducated about the disease and how it is transmitted. People living with HIV and AIDS faced stigma, violence, and discrimination by employers, [...]
Card Outlining Steps to Take if Stopped by Police
As part of their activism, the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights organization in the United States founded in 1950, attempted to inform LGBTQ+ individuals about their rights if they happened to be arrested. Mattachine Society members created [...]