(Find this document and other artifacts at our online archives.) In October 1971, local gay bar Lost and Found opened its doors for the first time – into a storm of controversy. Protesting Lost and Found’s discriminatory admissions policy, a coalition of local organizations picketed the new club. This flyer, […]
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(Jack Nichols holding picket sign at 1st protest at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 1965. Find this photo and other historical artifacts in our online archives.) Fifty years ago, on July 4, 1965, activists first convened in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to demand equality for lesbians and gays. This first of five “Annual Reminders” […]
(Listen here.) In celebration of this morning’s Supreme Court ruling, which recognized same-sex marriage as a constitutional right, we invite you to listen to Madeline Davis’s 1971 gay liberation song, “Stonewall Nation,” as recorded on the local gay radio program Friends. 44 years ago, Davis first proclaimed through this song that “the […]