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2 Buttons

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One button is from "Couples Support Group" which was an organization to support monogamous same-sex couples in the 1980s and 1990s. One button says…

112 Buttons, Badges, and Tokens

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Wooden nickels from DC locations such as Nob Hill, the D.C. Eagle, La Cage Aux Follies; plastic tokens from the Bachelors Mill Backdoor Pub; metal…

Talking Black Gay History: Ric Irick, publisher of "Malebox!"

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In celebration of Black History Month, Rainbow History Project dug into its archives of Black gay and lesbian publications to interview Ric Irick, the…