Photojournalist, gay rights pioneer Kay Lahusen dies at 91
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1of5FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Kay Lahusen poses for a photograph in Kennett Square, Pa. Lahusen, a pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movement s earliest days through her photography and writing, has died. She was 91. Known as the first openly gay photojournalist, Lahusen died Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at Chester County Hospital outside Philadelphia following a brief illness, according to Founds Funeral Home.Matt Rourke/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5FILE- In this July 4, 1967, file photo, Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, and other demonstrators carry signs calling for protection of homosexuals from discrimination as they march in a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Lahusen, a pioneering gay rights activist who chronicled the movement s earliest days through her photography and writing died Wednesday, May 26, 20
Home of San Francisco s 1st same-sex spouses now a landmark
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1of3FILE - In this March 3, 2008, file photo, Phyllis Lyon, left, and Del Martin are photographed at home in San Francisco. The hilltop cottage of the couple that became the first same-sex partners to legally marry in San Francisco has become a city landmark. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday, May 4, 2021, to give the 651 Duncan St. home of the lesbian activists landmark status. The home in the Noe Valley neighborhood is expected to become the first lesbian landmark in the western United States, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.Marcio Jose Sanchez/APShow MoreShow Less
Phyllis Papps and Francesca Curtis came out on national TV in 1970. Their actions changed Australia forever
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Phyllis Papps and Francesca Curtis are sharing their love story with Australia again.
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When the cameras started rolling on Phyllis Papps and Francesca Curtis in October 1970, both their lives and Australia would never be the same.
Fifty-one years ago, the pair made history by being the first lesbian couple to come out on national television, in an interview with the ABC s This Day Tonight. The early 1970s were very, very conservative . Gay women were invisible, because people didn t think lesbians existed, Ms Papps says.