This Day in Queer History

On this day in 1916, The New York Times reviewed Edward Carpenter's autobiography, one of the earliest books in which an author self-identified as homosexual. A socialist, poet, and pioneer of queer visibility.

On this day in 1979, seven men staged a Gay Sit-in for Justice in the office of Ontario Attorney General Roy McMurtry, demanding a meeting about police and legal harassment of the gay community.