LGBT characters are gaining visibility both on television and in the movies; but, like the various struggles within the gay rights movement, it isn’t happening overnight.
In Chicago, December of 1924, Henry Gerber and six other men started the first known organization in the United States to focus on gay rights. Funded almost exclusively by Gerber, the organization published two newsletters titled, Friendship and Freedom.
In 1978, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker created the first Rainbow Flag, to symbolize the diversity of the LGBTQ community. It was hand-sewn and hand-dyed and featured eight stripes.
Peculiar. Unusual. Eccentric. Queer. It’s a word with a denotative meaning as broad and varying as the community that now regularly adopts and widely applies its use. In the spirit of gender nonconformity and sexual ambiguity, many members of our LGBTQ community have now found refuge from society’s labels…
