Tag: #GayHistory
Alan Turing To Become The Face Of £50 • Instinct Magazine
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Great Britain has decided to make Alan Turing the face of their new £50 note.
The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney announced earlier today that Turing would appear on the new polymer note by the end of 2021.
Carney praised Turing as an “outstanding mathematician” and “a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.”
“As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far ranging and path breaking,”...
Brown Is Collecting Gay Erotic Novels • Instinct Magazine
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An Ivy League school is trying to archive gay history and literature.
If you hear titles like Biker’s Lust, The Book of Studs, The Leatherman’s Handbook, and Astrogay, you normally wouldn’t think of cherished tomes held by Brown University. But, they are.
The John Hay Library at Brown University has collected over 4,600 paperback books for its gay pulp fiction archive. The collection of books from the 1950s and 1990s is being kept so that LGBTQ...
Two LGBT Rights Heroes Are Getting Statues
Sylvia Rivera (left) and Marsha P. Johnson (second from left) / Image via NETFLIX, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSONTwo important, and often unsung, heroes are getting their much-deserved recognition.
This year is the 50th anniversary of Pride and two activists who played roles in the movement’s inception are being honored with monuments.
While stirrings of Pride were on the rise in the West coast of America through riots happening in...
