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...that the GayFest of 2005 was the first LGBT pride parade in Romania? — appeared 2 June 2006
...that Nireah Johnson, a transgender woman, was murdered by Paul Moore after Moore discovered Johnson was a biological male? — appeared 20 August 2007
...the first edition of Patience and Sarah, winner of the 1971 Stonewall Book Award, was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable? — appeared 22 August 2007
...that the very first news article on what became known as AIDS appeared in the New York Native, a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City? — appeared 21 December 2007
...that Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery? — appeared 5 March 2008
...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality? — appeared 18 March 2008
...that Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay person as lead clergy? — appeared 10 April 2008
...that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian? — appeared 2 May 2008
... that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple making love as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history? — appeared 15 May 2008
... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors? — appeared 29 June 2008
... that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"? — appeared 2 July 2008
... that Silverton, Oregon has elected the first openly transgender mayor in the United States? — apppeared 7 November 2008
... that horror novelist Anne Rice has cited the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter as an inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction? — appeared 8 November 2008
... that the first same-sex kiss on an American soap opera was between fictional characters Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery in 2003, who were also American soap opera's first lesbian couple? — appeared 12 November 2008
... that Anita Bryant's participation in Save Our Children, a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career? — appeared 20 November 2008
... that after initially deciding not to air the Roseanne episode "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" because it included Mariel Hemingway kissing Roseanne Barr, ABC promoted it as "the lesbian kiss episode"? — appeared 22 November 2008
... that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree? — appeared 22 November 2008
... that the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT-interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy? — appeared 22 November 2008
... that when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite? — appeared 24 November 2008
...that openly-gay actor Robert La Tourneaux considered his role as the gay hustler in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band to be the "kiss of death" for his career? — appeared 26 November 2008
... that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"? — appeared 29 November 2008
... that Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television? — appeared 1 December 2008
... that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office? — appeared 6 December 2008
... that the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club developed some of the earliest safe sex education material in the United States? — appeared 7 December 2008
... that Vanessa Redgrave's portrayal of transsexual Renée Richards in the 1986 biopic Second Serve was praised as embodying "every internal contradiction of the polymorphously perverse"? — appeared 11 December 2008
... that Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention? — appeared 13 December 2008
... that African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States? — appeared 12 January 2009
... that The Pittsburgh Courier crusaded against the blue discharge, calling it "a vicious instrument that should not be perpetrated against the American Soldier"? — appeared 12 January 2009
... that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement? — appeared 24 February 2009
... that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives? — appeared 26 February 2009
... that "The Snowman" was likely the product of Hans Christian Andersen's homoerotic ardor for Harald Scharff, a ballet dancer at the Royal Danish Theatre? — appeared 24 May 2009
... that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful"? — appeared 7 June 2009
... that a sex scandal in Boise, Idaho, in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals? — appeared 9 June 2009
... that half of the regular advertisers for the ABC series thirtysomething pulled out of the episode "Strangers", costing the network some $1.5 million, because it showed two men in bed together? — appeared 14 June 2009
... that Freeheld is an Academy Award winning documentary by Cynthia Wade that follows a New Jersey detective fighting for the right to pass on her pension to her female domestic partner? — appeared 24 August 2009
... that George Quaintance was an American artist whose "idealized, strongly homoerotic" depictions of men appeared in physique magazines? — appeared 4 September 2009
... that author Tom Spanbauer became so stressed out while writing the LGBT novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon that he passed out in Penn Station? — appeared 3 October 2009
... that, having begun as an affiliate of the fascist Iron Guard, Romanian author Ion Negoiţescu became a noted anti-fascist, before defying the communist regime as an openly homosexual dissident? — appeared 11 October 2009
... that when Dan Savage's book Savage Love was published, his advice column of the same name had 4 million readers? — appeared 5 June 2011
... that Dan Savage indulged in the seven deadly sins during research for his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah? — appeared 5 June 2011
... that same-sex couples in South Africa gained the right to adopt children jointly in 2002, four years before they gained the right to marry? — appeared 31 July 2011
... that Section 20A of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act, which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"? — appeared 7 December 2011
... that Die Freundin, a German lesbian magazine published from 1924 to 1933, was temporarily shut down by the Weimar government? — appeared 16 February 2012
... that Friendship and Freedom, published in 1924, was the first gay-interest periodical in the United States? — appeared 28 February 2012

... that Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting Le Sommeil (pictured), depicting a lesbian relationship, was inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Delphine et Hippolyte"? — appeared 3 March 2012
... that Selli Engler, a pioneer of the lesbian movement in 1920s Germany, later wrote a play titled "Heil Hitler"?" - appeared 28 July 2013
... that HIV activist Josh Robbins was diagnosed with HIV while participating in the HIV vaccine research study HVTN 505?" — appeared 9 January 2015
... that I Am Jazz, the first reality show about a transgender teen, debuted on TLC at the same time Caitlyn Jenner was receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs? — appeared 25 July 2015
... that Minnesotan actor Odin Biron moved to Moscow speaking almost no Russian but went on to become a popular character on the top-rated Russian sitcom Interns? — appeared 13 December 2015
... that when former rugby league player Casey Conway came out, he expressed disappointment that Anthony Mundine had claimed homosexuality was not an acceptable part of Aboriginal culture? — appeared 17 December 2015
... that Randy W. Berry, who grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado, is the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in the US Department of State? -- appeared 20 February 2016.Zigzig20s (talk) 10:27, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
... that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS? — appeared on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2016

Good Articles

Sampling of articles and date of their promotion by Wikipedia community to Good Article status:

Same-sex marriage in Maryland — 26 March 2013
Mighty Jill Off — 21 March 2013
Chad Griffin — 7 December 2012
Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance — 26 November 2012
Porcelain Black — 29 August 2012
Boys Don't Cry (film) — 13 April 2012
Robert Dover (equestrian) — 19 December 2011
Tom Kahn — 22 November 2011
David Starkey — 28 September 2011
Hands Across Hawthorne — 16 June 2011
Will Munro — 1 February 2011
Ianto Jones — 18 August 2010
Satan's Harvest Home — 8 February 2010
John Barrowman — 7 January 2010
Barney Frank — 24 May 2011
LGBT themes in Hindu mythology — 12 October 2009
Society for Human Rights — 26 September 2009
Hawaii House Bill 444 — 16 June 2009
White Night riots — 19 May 2009
John Berry (administrator) — 19 May 2009
CBS Reports: The Homosexuals — 5 May 2009
LGBT themes in comics — 29 March 2009
Lesbian — 26 February 2009

James Whale — 23 February 2009
Steve Burdick — 20 February 2009
Blue discharge — 13 February 2009
The Puppy Episode — 20 December 2008
Save Our Children — 8 December 2008
LGBT themes in speculative fiction — 14 October 2008
Black Cat Bar — 9 August 2008
Janet Jackson as a gay icon — 13 July 2008
José Sarria — 3 July 2008
Barbette (performer) — 22 June 2008
Barbara Gittings — 3 March 2008
Reel Affirmations — 2 January 2008
And the Band Played On — 29 December 2007
Casey Donovan (actor) — 1 December 2007
A. Scott Berg — 26 November 2007
Lance Bass — 4 November 2007
Freddie Mercury — 1 November 2007
Harisu — 11 July 2007
Romaine Brooks — 11 January 2007
Recognition of same-sex unions in the Republic of Ireland — 26 October 2006
Gay bathhouse — status restored 24 January 2006
Oscar Wilde — 17 January 2006

Featured Articles and Lists

Sampling of articles and date of their promotion by Wikipedia community to Featured Article or Featured List status:

Frank's Cock — 15 November 2012
Russell T Davies — 2 February 2012
Tom Driberg — 3 April 2011
Ann Bannon — 15 July 2010
List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots — 11 July 2009
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — 29 March 2009
Noël Coward — 24 March 2009
Gaylactic Spectrum Awards — 25 February 2009
List of Lambda Literary Awards winners and nominees for science fiction, fantasy and horror — 26 November 2008

Harvey Milk — 28 October 2008
Stonewall riots — 4 October 2008
Cleveland Street scandal — 29 September 2008
But I'm a Cheerleader — 26 November 2007
Same-sex marriage in Spain — 31 January 2007
List of U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions by type — 17 January 2007
James Robert Baker — 22 November 2006
Natalie Clifford Barney — 23 October 2006

H.D. — 1 November 2004

Featured Topics

Series of articles promoted by the Wikipedia community to Featured Topic status:

Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Topic — promoted 7 March 2009. Nominator and author: YobMod .

Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		Awarded to WikiProject LGBT studies for their sense of humour and input into the DYK April Fool's Day nominations of SS Lesbian (1915) and SS Lesbian (1923) Mjroots (talk) 06:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]