Before he became one of San Francisco’s premier press agents, Lee Houskeeper was just another 20-something in New York City. It was there in the sweltering humidity of the Lower Manhattan summer, in 1969, that he witnessed the Stonewall riots.
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There is perhaps no more critical election in U.S. history than the one in which Americans vote Nov. 5. Vice President Kamala Harris has said repeatedly as she campaigns that former president Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy as well as to a myriad of aspects of Americans’ daily lives.
“The evolution of a company's policies and branding and reputation is a lifelong work-in-progress,” said Bob Witek, a pioneering LGBTQ+ business leader and communications strategist.
It’s hard to believe now, but from the time South Florida began to grow in the 1890s through World War I in the 1910s, the land boom of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the 1930s, and World War II in the 1940s, the LGBTQ population lived in relative obscurity.
A national repository for historic medical information has added the website of a San Francisco health clinic focused on transgender patients to its collection. It is part of the newly created Sexual and Gender Minority Health web archive that is gathering LGBTQ health resources to preserve them in perpetuity.
Addison Mizner was not a regular architect. He never went to school for it, and the state of New York and California, where he came from, never officially recognized him as such.
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On Sept. 20, 1973, in their so-called “Battle of the Sexes,” tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in the Houston Astrodome. It was the first time a woman had played against a man in such a venue, and it was an historic event with much media hype and an astounding amount of betting in Las Vegas with the odds in Riggs’s favor.
After months of deliberation, David Sheldon Fearon wrote a letter in 1959 to the committee responsible for developing the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. Fearon, recently deceased, was then a 21-year-old seminary student in Canada who hoped to call attention to a mistranslation he’d discovered.
Robin Roberts (1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's Good Morning America. After growing up in Mississippi and attending Southeastern Louisiana University, Roberts was a sports anchor for local TV and radio stations. Roberts was a sportscaster on ESPN for 15 years (1990–2005). She became co-anchor on Good Morning America in 2005. She has been treated for breast cancer and for myelodysplastic syndrome.
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