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Gay History Month: Zora Neale Hurston

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 31 09

Zora Neale Hurston, a folklorist, novelist and anthropologist, was a staple figure during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Gay History Month: Yves Saint Laurent

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 30 09

Yves Saint-Laurent is one of the most renowned figures in 20th century French fashion. As a child, Laurent was incessantly taunted by his peers.
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Gay History Month: Urvashi Vaid

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 29 09

Urvashi Vaid is an openly lesbian civil rights activist and attorney. She has dedicated herself to pursuing equal rights for LGBT persons for over 25 years.
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Rutgers University students unite against Westboro Baptist Church

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 28 09

About 200 students woke up earlier than usual Wednesday on the Rutgers University campus. Some still in pajamas, they stood in the rain with signs in their hands, prepared to counter-protest against hate.
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Gay History Month: Todd Oldham

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 28 09

Todd Oldham is an openly gay American fashion designer. He was born in Texas in 1961. He discovered his love of fashion and design after designing his first dress at age 15.
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Gay History Month: Tammy Baldwin

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 27 09

Tammy Baldwin is the first woman from Wisconsin to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and is the first openly gay person elected to Congress.
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Gay History Month: Suze Orman

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 26 09

Suze Orman is a financial advisor, motivational speaker, television personality and book author. Her financial career began in 1980 when she became an account executive at Merill Lynch.
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Gay History Month: Ruth Ellis

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 25 09

Ruth Ellis  is regarded by many as "America's Oldest Lesbian." She was an African-American woman who came out as a lesbian in 1915 before graduating from Springfield High School in Illinois.
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Gay History Month: Robert Rauschenberg

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 24 09

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist whose work provided the transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
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Russian Lesbian Couple Marries Today in Canada

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 23 09

Pink News reported that a lesbian couple will marry today in Toronto. Irina Fedotova-Fet, 30, and Irina Shipitko, 32, attempted to marry in Russia in May but were turned away.
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Gay Reversal Group Pushes “Ex-Gay” Literature

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 23 09

Chicago-based group, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is pushing public school libraries to insert a whole new class of books on their shelves about "reformed homosexuals.
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Gay History Month: Rainer Fassbinder

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 23 09

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a polemic filmmaker associated with the New German Cinema movement. Fassbinder was born in 1946 to a bourgeois family in Munich.
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Gay History Month: Rachel Maddow

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 22 09

Rachel Maddow is the first openly gay anchor to be hired to host prime-time news in the United States.
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Gay History Month: Pauli Murray

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 21 09

Pauli Murray was an American lawyer, civil rights activist and ordained priest who fought for race and gender equality.
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Gay History Month: Paul Monette

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 20 09

Paul Monette was an openly gay memoirist, novelist, poet and activist. His work dealt with the gay struggle and recounted the loss of his partner to AIDS.
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Gay History Month: Michel Foucault

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 19 09

Michel Foucault was a 20th Century French philosopher who challenged the concept of "normality" in society.
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Gay History Month: Magnus Hirschfeld

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 18 09

Magnus Hirschfeld was a doctor in the late 19th and early 20th century that contributed greatly to the sexual emancipation movement in Europe.
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Gay History Month: Kate Kendall

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 16 09

Kate Kendall is a nationally recognized spokesperson for LGBT rights. She is a board member for the Equal Justice Society and the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
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Spirited sport sedans

Washington Blade Autos  Oct 16 09

Spirited sport sedans With Halloween around the corner, it's time for treats By Joe Phillips Friday, October 16, 2009 And lucky for gay and lesbian gearheads, there's plenty of eye candy in showrooms this fall.
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Gay History Month: John Cage

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 15 09

John Cage was a 20th century American composer, writer and conceptual artist whose contributions to the field of music and choreography proved influential to the postwar avant-garde and the development of modern dance.
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