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... what a Gay icon is? ... that when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theater so people could watch it via satellite? ...that Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay person as lead clergy? ...that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian? ...that the very first news article on what became known as AIDS appeared in the New York Native, a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City?