So we’re going to start at the beginning and hear from the activists and visionaries who got the ball rolling for LGBTQ civil rights. Credit: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Harry Hay press release still for Clifford Odets’ “Til the Day I Die,” May 1935. Credit: Courtesy of Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
Leffler courtesy of Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsc-01272.Įrnestine Eckstein on the cover of The Ladder in June 1966. Credit: Photo by Diana Davies courtesy of Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.īayard Rustin at a news briefing on the Civil Rights March on Washington in the Statler Hotel, August 27, 1963. Clockwise from upper left: Martha Shelley at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, 1969.