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LGBT+ History Month Italia: Building Bridges Between Universities, Education and Activism

In this December 2024 piece, ICoHM member Chiara Beccalossi, co-founder of LGBT+ History Month Italia, writes about the first public demonstration for gay and lesbian rights in Italy, in Sanremo in April 1972; and about how this April 1972 demonstration inspired the selection of April as LGBT+ History Month Italia when it was founded in…

Gateway to Pride

On October 3, 2024, at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis (Missouri, USA), a large crowd gathered to walk the historic Gateway to Pride exhibit and to mark the 30th anniversary of the first (then-called) Lesbian and Gay History Month in the United States. Rodney Wilson, founder of LGBTQ+ History Month USA, gave opening…