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This Month in SF Gay History: February

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin at their City Hall wedding in February of 2004. February 3, 1874 On this date in 1874, Gertrude Stein, author…

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World AIDS Day

December 1 marks World AIDS Day, an international day of awareness for the AIDS pandemic that has been observed every year since 1988. The very…

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This Week in SF Gay History: October 27 – November 2

November 1, 1937 On this date in 1937, Tom Waddell, Olympic athlete and founder of the Gay Games who is now honored on the Castro’s…

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This week in SF Gay History: October 6 – 12

October 11, 1972 MaryEllen Cunha and Peggy Forster received their liquor license for the Twin Peaks Tavern. They uncovered the plate glass windows (which had…

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Leonard Matlovich (1943 – 1988)

On September 8, 1975, Leonard Matlovich appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline, “I Am a Homosexual,” catapulting him into the national…

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Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011)

On March 23, 2011, the gay community lost one of its earliest staunch celebrity advocates, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, two time Academy Award winner, one of the…

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