When Is Pride Month? (Just here for the books? Scroll down to see the list of children’s books for Pride Month, and don’t miss the link where you can easily order them all!) Pride Month is in June! On June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn (a popular gay bar) and hit a…
“No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” – Marsha P Johnson Who Was Marsha P. Johnson? Marsha P Johnson was a Black transgender woman, drag queen, and activist. She was assigned male at birth on August 24, 1945, and recognized early on that she was more comfortable wearing clothing traditionally…
The History of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Military Policy You might be familiar with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy from the 1990s, but have you ever wondered how we got there? In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy, leader of the fear-based anti-communism campaign known as the “Red Scare,” launched the “Lavender Scare.” A…
The time between when AIDS was first recognized as an epidemic and when President Reagan finally publicly acknowledged it was approximately four years. When it was first publicly acknowledged by the White House staff in 1982, the Press Secretary, Larry Speakes, took the opportunity to crack a homophobic gay “joke” rather than answer the question professionally, and asking the reporter,…
Frank Kameny Early Life Frank Kameny was born to Jewish parents in 1925. He became an astronomer and was drafted into the United States Army during World War II, where he worked as an astronomer for the U.S. Army Map Service. Frank Kameny was also gay. After World War II ended, a Senator from Wisconsin…
Who Was Jane Addams, the Mother of Social Work? Jane Addams was a social reformer who founded Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States, in Chicago in 1889. In 1931, she became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, honored for a lifetime of work on behalf…
Who Was Albert D.J. Cashier? Albert D.J. Cashier was assigned female at birth and named Jennie Irene Hodgers in Ireland on December 25, 1843. While very little information is known about Cashier’s early life, we know that at some point in childhood, Hodgers changed to traditionally male clothing and smuggled on a boat to America….
What Is Anti-Trans Legislation, and What Does It Target? Anti-trans legislation refers to bills that restrict transgender people’s rights and access to care, and it has targeted gender-affirming medical care for minors at an accelerating rate since 2021. NBC News reported that in 2021 there were a total of 191 anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed, and 153…