One Sentence That Changed Everything: ONE Magazine & the First Gay Supreme Court Victory (Jan 13, 1958) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about ONE Magazine, the first openly gay magazine sold on American newsstands, and One, Inc. v. Olesen, the 1958 Supreme Court ruling that made it legal to send gay writing through the U.S. mail.
Founded in October 1952 by members of the Los Angeles Mattachine Society, including Dale Jennings, Martin Block, Don Slater, and Dorr Legg, ONE took its name from a line by Thomas Carlyle, "a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one", and put the words "The Homosexual Magazine" on its cover. The first issue appeared in January 1953 for twenty-five cents. Letters poured…
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