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Joseph Bennington-Castro
Joey is a Hawaii-based journalist who has written more than 900 articles for the general public on a wide range topics, including history, health, astronomy, archaeology, artificial intelligence, and more.
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Health officials first became aware of AIDS in the summer of 1981, but U.S. leaders remained largely silent for four years.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt—with 1,920 individual panels, each inscribed with the names of people lost to AIDS—was displayed for the first time on October 11, 1987. It has grown ever since.
Before the Stonewall Riots, these activists helped set the stage for advances in the LGBTQ civil rights movement.
The 1969 Stonewall Riots marked a historic turning point for gay rights, but several smaller uprisings preceded Stonewall as LGBTQ communities pushed back against harassment and inequality.
The Court ruled in favor of LGBTQ rights as early as 1958.
Alan Turing was a British mathematician and logician whose work laid the foundation for modern computer science and artificial intelligence. He was instrumental in breaking Nazi communication encryptions during World War II.