Discover what happened in LGBTQ+ history on any day of the year.
On this day, Christine Jorgensen was born. The first widely known American to undergo sex reassignment surgery, she became a champion for transgender dignity and said she gave the sexual revolution "a good swift kick in the pants."
On this day, Anders als die Andern premiered in Berlin, co-produced by sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. One of the earliest films to portray homosexuality sympathetically, it was later destroyed by the Nazis.
On this day, author Marijane Meaker was born. Writing as Vin Packer, she published Spring Fire in 1952, the first lesbian paperback novel, launching an entire genre and selling 1.5 million copies.