Oranges were the only fruit aboard the Revenge. Even if Captain Stede Bonnet couldn’t taste them in the 40-orange cake he ordered—and even if the crew got scurvy—at least he caught Blackbeard’s eye. And with that the HBO comedy Our Flag Means Death cleansed the Florida orange of its residual 70s-era anti-LGBTQ+ rot, and repositioned […]
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A ‘freaking fag revolutionary’ remembers the early years of gay liberation in Chicago
And a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives provides the visual aids.
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On June 14, 1977 Chicago had its first big gay-rights protest
Thousands of demonstrators defied the community’s establishment figures to protest a concert by antigay activist Anita Bryant.