This Day in Queer History

On this day, a New York appellate court ruled that Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness was not obscene, clearing the way for wider distribution of the landmark lesbian novel that pleaded for the right to exist.

On this day in 1967, the Student Homophile League at Columbia University became the first gay college group to receive an official campus charter. Stephen Donaldson's persistence made queer student organizing a reality.

On this day, NYPD Sergeant Charles Cochrane and Detective Sam Ciccone founded the Gay Officers Action League, the world's first police fraternal society representing LGBT people in the criminal justice system.

On this day, the Israeli Conservative movement joined Reform Judaism in agreeing to admit LGBT students into rabbinical school, expanding queer inclusion within Jewish religious leadership.