Freda Josephine McDonald was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on 3rd June 1906. Her parents were both entertainers, performing throughout the segregated Midwest and “Entertainer Turned Spy…Josephine Baker”
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Ching Shih and The Story of Gay Pirates
Very little is known about the early life of Ching Shih, there wasn’t much documentation and if there was most of it wasn’t in English. “Ching Shih and The Story of Gay Pirates”
Sylvia Rivera – The Rosa Parks of the Modern Transgender Movement
Sylvia Rivera was born in 1951 in New York to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother. A Difficult Early Life After her father “Sylvia Rivera – The Rosa Parks of the Modern Transgender Movement”
Henry Gerber and the Society for Human Rights
Henry was born Heinrich Joseph Dittmar on June 29th 1892 in the city of Passau in Bavaria. He later changed his name to “Henry Gerber”. “Henry Gerber and the Society for Human Rights”
Barbara Gittings – Activist for Equality
Barbara Gittings was born in 1932 in Vienna, Austria. Barbara and her siblings attended Catholic schools in Montreal. She was so immersed in Catholicism at “Barbara Gittings – Activist for Equality”
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was born in the East Frisian village Westerfeld, incorporated today within Aurich, which at the time was in the Kingdom of Hanover on “Karl Heinrich Ulrichs”
Feminist and Poet Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was born in New York City on 18th February, 1934. As the youngest of three children born to immigrant parents from the West “Feminist and Poet Audre Lorde”
A Brief History of Modern Ballroom Culture
Modern ballroom culture, or ball culture emerged in the 1920s in and around New York City. In the beginning, performers consisted mainly of white men “A Brief History of Modern Ballroom Culture”
Lili Elbe – The Danish Girl
Lili Elbe, also known as Lili Ilse Elvenes is generally believed to have been born in 1882, in Vejle, Denmark. Some of our audience may “Lili Elbe – The Danish Girl”
Conversion Therapy – Boy Erased
Garrard spent years saying the same prayer “Lord, make me pure”. He grew up in a small town of 100 people in Arkansas, the only “Conversion Therapy – Boy Erased”