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This September, the Biden administration announced that VA benefits would be ensured for those removed from the military over one’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The practice of discharging LGBTQIA+ individuals from the armed forces extends back in US history, but became pronounced in the McCarthy era after World War…
(Photo credit to HistoryLink.org and Paul Dorpat: “Madam Lou Graham arrives in Seattle in 1888”) Born in German in 1861, Lou Graham eventually made her way to Seattle around 1887 and became a local legend for her three-story brick bordello on Washington and Third, a courthouse today, and her home…
A viewer provided us with a digital image of three photographs which are dated June 24th, 1979. The photos are part of an annual march known as Christopher Street Liberation Day and appear to be taking place in front of a cathedral in New York City. These photographs were archived…
What do Freddie Mercury, Celebrate Bisexuality Day, and ACT UP all have in common? Quite frankly a lot of things, but for the purposes of this article September. As the LGBTQIA+ Archives continues to create our 365-day calendar, we wanted to focus on these three moments and people in queer…
My name is Winter Cashman, an LGBTQIA+ advocate and organizer. I have started these archives as a way to begin documenting our communities and their histories into a unified source that can continue acting as a living history as others join to document their histories as well. This archive will…