3 events documented
On this day in 1877, gay American Modernist painter Marsden Hartley was born. He moved through cubist Paris, befriended Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein, and created some of his most powerful work mourning the death of his beloved Karl von Freyburg.
On this day, a collective of self-described 'critical faggots' in Winnipeg launched After Stonewall, a journal of gay liberation that gave queer Canadians a bold new voice.
On this day, same-sex couples in Vienna gained the right to marry under a new civil union bill, though adoption and artificial insemination remained off-limits. A step forward, with more steps still to come.
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