Before Stonewall

The invisibility of the real history of the civil rights movement for gays and lesbians continues at the Smithsonian:

A dozen picket signs on old wooden sticks carry the DNA of the gay civil equality movement in America. Forty-five years ago, this month, in 1965, these pickets were held high by men and women considered among the first generation of LGBT activists in front of Lyndon Johnson's White House.

With the men wearing jackets and ties and tailored skirts for the ladies, all arrived...