June is Pride Month, and this year is the 50th anniversary of the first pride parade in New York City. What do copyright and pride have in common? Quite a bit, actually. Where would our celebrations, our heroes, and our increasing understanding of advocacy and allyship be without posters and speeches? Literature? Zines? Given that, in honor of pride, the Copyright Office is highlighting just a few of the countless LGBTQ+ writers who have helped pave the way for the celebrations today through their contributions to the copyright record.
- Larry Kramer. This playwright, author, and producer challenged the country to exercise compassion towards the HIV+ community. In his play, The Normal Heart (1985), a character remarks, “I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Por