Sublime

Throughout Christian history, male homosexuality has been considered a heinous sin. This is in stark contrast to ancient Greek culture, where it was acceptable for men to have sex with adolescent boys until they were ready to marry—at which point it was expected that they would switch to having sex with women. In both cases, however, homosexuality

Nancy Reagan might be helpful, too. She had many gay friends. (She even had a lesbian godmother—the silent screen star, Alla Nazimova.)

Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s

three decades since the FCC revoked the Fairness Doctrine (which required TV and radio stations to devote some of their programming to important issues of the day and air opposing views on those issues)

Nineteen twenty-three was one of Broadway’s brightest years. John Barrymore played Hamlet just a few blocks away from where his sister Ethel was appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author also opened. Most critics cited Galsworthy’s Loyalties as the best play of the season.

Harry Britt, Harvey Milk’s chosen successor, introduced a bill to the board of supervisors that would give health insurance benefits to the live-in partners of city employees. It passed—only to be vetoed by Mayor George Moscone’s successor, Dianne Feinstein, who caved to pressure from San Francisco’s Roman Catholic churches. “To reduce the sacred c