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Pride 2025 Day 5: Brenda Howard (1946-2005)
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#pride2025 #pride #bisexual #polyamorous #kink #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Pride 2025 Day 5: Brenda Howard (1946-2005) Brenda is the polyamorous, bisexual, kinky, Jewish, Mother of Pride. While she wasn't at the Stonewall riots, she organized a rally 3…
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June 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Pride 2025 Day 4: Donny the Punk (1946-1996)
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#pride2025 #pride #bisexual #donnythepunk #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #prisonreform #lgbtqstudentgroups
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Pride 2025 Day 4: Donny the Punk (1946-1996) Born Robert Martin Jr, he assumed the name Stephen Donaldson when he founded the Student Homophile League at Columbia University in 19…
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June 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Pride 2025 Day 3: Ernestine Eckstein (1941-1992)
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#pride2025 #pride #ernestineeckstein #daughtersofbilitis #mattachinesociety #lesbian #blackhistory #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Pride 2025 Day 3: Ernestine Eckstein (1941-1992) Ernestine wrote under the name Eckstein, because she was a lesbian at a time when police raids were common. While in college she…
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June 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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2025 Day 2: Larry Kramer (1935-2020)
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#pride2025 #pride #larrykramer #hiv #aids #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #gay
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Pride 2025 Day 2: Larry Kramer (1935-2020) Larry did an immense amount of work for AIDS advocacy. He was a highly acclaimed gay Jewish screenwriter, playwright, and author. In th…
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June 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Pride 2025 Day 1: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera
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#lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #marshapjohnson #sylviarivera #transgender #Stonewall #pride #pride2025
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Pride 2025 Day 1: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera For Pride month 2025 I am going to attempt one post per day on people I see as important figures in queer history. While some…
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June 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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May 6, 1933: the day the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft library was torched.
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#lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #transgender #holocaust
May 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 28: Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #danielhalewilliams #doctor #heartsurgeon #providenthospitalchicago
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2025 Black History Month Day 28: Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931) Daniel was the fifth of seven children born to a free family in Philadelphia. When he was 9 years old his father died, and his moth…
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February 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 27: Ernestine Eckstein (1941-1992)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #ernestineeckstein #lgbt #lesbian
#lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #daughtersofbilitis #naacp #mattachinesociety #blackwomenorganizingforaction
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2025 Black History Month Day 27: Ernestine Eckstein (1941-1992) Ernestine wrote under the name Eckstein, because she was a lesbian at a time when police raids were common. While in college she was…
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February 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 26: Hiram Revels (1827-1901)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #hiramrevels #congress #senate #Mississippi #alcornstateuniversity #rustcollege
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2025 Black History Month Day 26: Hiram Revels (1827-1901) Hiram was born free in North Carolina. When he was 18 he was ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church. He resided in…
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February 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 25: Mamie Till-Mobely (1921-2003)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #emmetttill #mamietillmobely #lynching #naacp
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TW: violence 2025 Black History Month Day 25: Mamie Till-Mobely (1921-2003) 70 years ago this year,  when Mamie was 33 years old, she lived through an occurrence that nobody should ever have to. He…
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February 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 24: Fred Hampton (1948-1969)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #fredhampton #blackpantherparty #blackpanthers #rainbowcoalition #naacp #fbi #cointelpro
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TW: violence 2025 Black History Month Day 24: Fred Hampton (1948-1969) Fred was an agent of change in his tragically short life. He grew up in Chicagoland and was interested in helping those in ne…
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February 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 23: Kiah Duggins (1994-2015)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #kiahduggins #prisonreform
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2025 Black History Month Day 23: Kiah Duggins (1994-2015) As a reminder that black history is still being made, I've made the choice to bump Bessie Coleman (the first black female pilot) in favor of…
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February 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 22: Victor Hugo Green (1892-1960)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #victorhugogreen #negromotoristgreenbook #greenbook #travel #travelingwhileblack
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2025 Black History Month Day 22: Victor Hugo Green (1892-1960) Raised in New Jersey, Victor worked as a letter carrier for the USPS. He married in 1917 and served in WWI in France.  After returning…
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February 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 21: Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #marymcleodbethune #fdr #unitednations #education
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TW: violence 2025 Black History Month Day 21: Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) Mary was the 15th of 17 children of former slaves born in a one room cabin.  Her mother worked for the family of her fo…
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February 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 20: Ronald McNair (1950-1986)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #ronaldmcnair #nasa #astronaut #spaceshuttle #challenger
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2025 Black History Month Day 20: Ronald McNair (1950-1986) Ronald grew up in segregated Lake City, SC. When he was eight years old he went to the Lake City Public Library and picked out some books t…
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February 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 19: Daisy Bates (1914-1999)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #daisybates #littlerocknine #naacp #Arkansas
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TW: violence, sexual assault 2025 Black History Month Day 19: Daisy Bates (1914-1999) Daisy's early life was impacted by the horrors of racial and sexual violence when her mother was gang raped a…
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February 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 18: Octavius Catto (1839-1871)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #octaviuscatto #Philadelphia #civilwar #15thamendment
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TW: violence 2025 Black History Month Day 18: Octavius Catto (1839-1871) Octavius was born free in Charleston, SC. His mother was a member of a prominent mixed race family of the city which were lo…
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February 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 17: Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #suffragette #feminism #education #marychurchterrell
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TW: violence, sexual assault 2025 Black History Month Day 17: Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) Mary Church was born in Tennessee to freed slaves during the Civil War.  After the war, her parents ope…
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February 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 16: Otis Blackwell (1931-2002)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #otisblackwell #Elvis #smithereens #rocknroll
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2025 Black History Month Day 16: Otis Blackwell (1931-2002) Nobody has had a greater impact on Rock and Roll than musical genius Otis Blackwell.  In addition to the thousands of songs he wrote, El…
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February 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 15: Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #lesbian #intersectionalfeminism #lgbt #lgbtqia #audrelorde
February 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 14 Charles R. Drew (1904-1950)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #charlesrdrew #bloodmobile #bloodbank
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2025 Black History Month Day 14 Charles R. Drew (1904-1950) Charles was born into a middle class black family in Washington D.C. in 1904. He grew up in an interracial neighborhood and went to integr…
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February 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 13: Sarah Bickford (1856-1931)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #montana #sarahbickford
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TW: violence 2025 Black History Month Day 13: Sarah Bickford (1856-1931) Today I am celebrating another black woman in Montana history. Sarah was born enslaved in Tennessee. The evils of chattel s…
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February 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 12: Richard Allen (1760-1831)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #richardallen #ame #africanmethodistepiscopalchurch
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2025 Black History Month Day 12: Richard Allen (1760-1831) Richard was born enslaved in Delaware. His early childhood was marred by the evil of chattel slavery.  After being sold from one enslaver t…
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February 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 11: Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886-1954)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #lgbtq #transgender #lgbt #lgbtqia #lucyhicksanderson
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2025 Black History Month Day 11: Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886-1954) Lucy was a black transwoman born in Kentucky. AMAB, she insisted from her earliest point in childhood that she was a girl. Her parent…
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February 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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2025 Black History Month Day 10: Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #alainleroylocke #harlemrenaissance
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2025 Black History Month Day 10: Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) Alain would come to be known as the Father of the Harlem Renaissance. He was born to a prominent family in Philadelphia, PA. He was…
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February 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM