This Day in Queer History

On this day, the Toronto Board of Education banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, though it added a clause forbidding 'proselytizing of homosexuality.' Progress came, but with conditions that revealed lingering prejudice.

On this day, Trump nominated Richard Grenell as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. He later became the first openly gay person to serve in a U.S. cabinet-level position as Acting Director of National Intelligence.

On this day in 2018, we honor Edward Sagarin, who as "Donald Webster Cory" founded the first gay bookstore and mail-order service in the U.S. His 1951 book The Homosexual in America launched the homophile movement.