The Nautical Star was tattooed on the wrist, so it could be hidden by a watch, but easily be shown when wanted to selected people.

The Gay Activist Alliance used the 11th greek letter, λ lambda, to represent their movements during the 1970s. 

They are many interpretation for the symbol, amongst which that it stands for "liberation". It is also the physics symbol for energy.

The symbol λ is still popular today in queer culture, and a tattoo of choice to signify one's appartenance to the community.

During the 1960s, lesbian feminists adopted the labrys tattoo as a symbol of strength and independence.

The labrys, or double-bladed battle axe, is associated with ancient matriarchal societies, the Amazons and the Greek goddess Demeter.
In the Minoan civilization (lasting from around 3,000 to 1,100 BCE), the society at the time was predominately matriarchal. Their religion centered around a bare-breasted Great Goddess who is believed to have been a protector of women. This goddess is often portrayed as holding snakes in her hands – a symbol of fertility and agriculture – and surrounded by female worshippers with double axes. It represents a symbol of power.

The symbol sometimes appears against a violet background (a commonly acknowledged sapphic color) and in an upside down triangle. In Kyrgyzstan, there’s even an LGBTI rights organization called Labrys. Unfortunately some trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) have co-opted the symbol in recent years.

Der Eigene was the first homosexual magazine in the world, published in German in Berlin under the direction of Adolf Brand from 1896 to 1932.

In 1870, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs had founded "Prometheus", a magazine that had only one issue, but was already open to the theme of "love between men. Der Eigene is, however, considered to be the first periodical in the history of homosexuality.

From January 1898, the magazine opens with a short fiction featuring openly homosexual characters, which manages, under cover of fiction, to pass through the censorship. The magazine is also illustrated with engravings, slightly tinged with eroticism.

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In 1923, when Edna Woolman-Chase – Condé Nast’s director of the American, British, German, and French editions of Vogue – appointed Dorothy Todd to the position of Vogue editor in London. Hailing from Kensington, Todd, then 40, was openly gay and fully invested in women’s rights. As a figure in the Modernist movement, she was on a mission to transform Vogue from a fashion magazine into a journal of the avant-garde. “Vogue has no intention of confining its pages to hats and frocks,” surmised one 1925 issue.

Madge Garland, formerly McHarg, blossomed as an icon of style and beauty during her years at Vogue, where she first worked as a receptionnist, and was then promoted to fashion editor. 

Their open relationship was well known, going so far as to inspire a parody of T.E. Brown’s poem The Garden, which began, “A Garland is a lovesome thing, Todd wot.” Their partnership also inspired The Tragedy of Fashion, a ballet produced in 1926 by their friend Freddie Ashton – a title entirely too prescient of their affair.

Unfortunately, the magazine began to lose money and Dorothy Todd was fired in 1926.
Madge Garland followed her, and went on with a great carreer. After working as a fashion editor for Vogue in Paris, she became the first Professor of Fashion Design at the Royal College of Art, a course she invented herself.

The Daughters of Bilitis, founded by Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, debuted The Ladder in October of 1956. The first issue included reassurances from an attorney that lesbians had nothing to fear in joining DOB or subscribing to the magazine — at that time it was still very dangerous to be “out.” The DOB aimed to change the image of lesbians in society and the designation of homosexuality as a mental illness by presenting to the public a very sanitized group of “respectable” women: “advocating [to lesbians] a mode of behavior and dress acceptable to society.” They shunned butch/femme roles and had seemingly no awareness whatsoever of working-class lesbians.

The Ladder began as a 12-page newsletter of book reviews, news, poetry, short stories and DOB meetings news distributed to 175 friends and medical professionals who DOB thought would be interested in issues surrounding female homosexuality. The magazine was typed on a typewriter and copied via mimeograph, and was published from 1956 to 1972.

All the other names are also saphic publication that existed in the USA.
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Released just 60 years ago in 1958, the ruling established the right to send pro-LGBTQ periodicals through the mail, thus enabling the creation of national organizing networks and laying the groundwork for commercial LGBTQ magazines and newspapers. Subsequent court rulings in the 1960s opened the door to publication and distribution of homoerotic periodicals. As mass media and print culture evolved from the 1960s into the 1970s, LGBTQ periodicals increased in variety, visibility and readership: more personal ads and product ads appeared, as did more physique and porn magazines, and more advocacy and news periodicals. At the height of the era of print as a means of mass communication, LGBTQ periodicals grew to reach readers throughout the United States and beyond.

In 1939 Levensrecht was founded under the editorship of Nico Engelschman and Jaap van Leeuwen, with the first issue appearing in March 1940.

It was a magazine for and by homosexuals, and contained articles on the history of homosexuality, homosexual artists and writers, developments in scientific research on homosexuality, and other social discussions related to homosexuality.

The outbreak of World War II forced the magazine to cease publication after four issues. In 1946 Engelschman and Van Leeuwen resumed the publication of the magazine. In 1948, Levensrecht received a negative verdict from the Advisory Committee on Pornography. Because of the scandal that followed, the magazine was discontinued in February 1948.

From the readers' circle of Levensrecht the Shakespeare Club had emerged in 1946 under Engelschman and Van Leeuwen. This organization was aimed at promoting the interests of homosexuals on the one hand and their social acceptance on the other. After the discontinuation of Levensrecht, the Shakespeare club - which from 1949 was called Cultuur- en Ontspannings Centrum (COC) - published a number of gay magazines between 1946 and 1964, respectively Maandbericht, Mededelingenblad and Vriendschap. However, these magazines were aimed specifically at members and therefore remained mainly within closed circles.

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The article titled "Montana Girl Becomes Man by Sex Change and Weds" was actually published in the Los Angeles Times in 1937, more than a decade before Christine's story.

In 1983 Bechdel began writing and drawing Dykes to Watch Out For, a comic strip that soon became a mainstay in gay and alternative news weeklies across the United States. Dykes to Watch Out For ran for 25 years, with Bechdel self-syndicating the strip and eventually publishing it on the Internet. There the strip gained new life, and one particular cartoon would embed Bechdel’s name in the popular culture lexicon.

In the 1985 strip “The Rule,” a character states that she will watch a movie only if it has at least two women who talk to each other about a topic other than men. In the 21st century those guidelines became known as the Bechdel Test, a shorthand method to illustrate the dramatic gender disparity in Hollywood. (Bechdel herself preferred to call it the Bechdel-Wallace Test to acknowledge the friend who inspired “The Rule”).

Bechdel published a number of Dykes to Watch Out For printed collections, and although the strip’s main character bore a passing resemblance to her, the comic was not overtly autobiographical. The series ended in 2008.

It was Ellen DeGeneres who started the whole magazine-cover coming out with her 1997 Time magazine cover and its famous headline, "Yep, I'm Gay."

It was a brave move, and one that hurt DeGeneres' career for years after the announcement, the Human Rights Campaign reports. At the time, DeGeneres was also starring on her own sitcom, "Ellen," and the character she played also came out as gay that week. Oprah Winfrey played the therapist that the TV Ellen came out to, and later told The Hollywood Reporter that merely for playing that role, she received hate mail and threatening phone calls that included racial slurs.

Fun Fact : The Times published a number in 1969 titled "The Homosexual in America". The cover was allegedly pictures of a 'real life' gay men. The cover article was, surprisingly, pretty homophobic.

NY Times magazine also allegedly had the first named openly gay person to appear on the cover of a U.S. newsmagazine, the American soldier Leonard Matlovitch, in 1975.