Let’s be clear up front: No one knows for sure whether Archibald Butt and Francis Davis Millet were in a romantic relationship. In the times and society in which they lived, for such a thing to become known would have…
Before the Pulse nightclub tragedy in 2016, the worst mass killing of people at a gay bar in the US took place in New Orleans in 1973. A Sunday afternoon arson attack on a gay bar called the Upstairs Lounge…
It’s hard to imagine today, but twenty years ago, very few celebrities were openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual. In 1997, comedian Ellen DeGeneres made history by coming out as gay on The Oprah Winfrey Show…
Bren Gosling sat down in 2018 with the intention of writing a one-act play, and immediately the image of Princess Diana holding the hand of a man living with AIDS flooded into his mind. “I must have buried it away…
A photo of an anonymous headstone at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., went viral in Reddit’s r/pics forum this month, getting more than 89,000 upvotes. The inscription on the headstone reads “A Gay Vietnam Veteran: When I was in the…
It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 decision that legalized marriage for same-sex couples throughout the United States. When the decision came down, outside the high court in Washington, D.C., marriage…
On Sept. 10, 1982, the forecast called for rain — of a masculine variety. That date served as the release for the unforgettable disco track “It’s Raining Men,” recorded by San Francisco disco divas Martha Wash and Izora Armstead of the…
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