Many in the LGBTQ community throughout the country were expected to join their friends, neighbors, and family members this week in commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and on…
One day almost twenty years ago, the historian Vi Johnson won an eBay auction for a numbered first edition of “Sex Life in England Illustrated,” by Iwan Bloch, an early sexologist. (Among Bloch’s bona fides: he located and published the…
Fotografiska New York has collaborated with the Tom of Finland Foundation to produce The Darkroom, a collection of the photographic portraits by Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), which served as the reference images for his later works…
Fifty-five years ago this month, a group of transgender women in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco fought back against police as they arrested patrons at Compton’s Cafeteria, a go-to hangout for temporarily avoiding the harshest harassment, discrimination and physical…
More than 75 years after they were murdered in the gas chambers or shot, gay victims of Nazi persecution were remembered with “stumbling stones” laid in Amsterdam this week. The Netherlands has about 8,500 Stolpersteine, (stumbling stones), the brass memorial plaques embedded…
Colonial Williamsburg was a lot queerer than we were led to believe, and new efforts are underway to make sure this ignorance of LGBTQ+ contributions to American history is soon a thing of the past. The popular living museum and…
For over a decade, John Paulk was the poster boy of the ex-gay movement. As a self-proclaimed converted gay man happily married to his wife, an ex-lesbian named Anne, he made countless media appearances, spoke at Exodus conferences, and publicly…
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