Glenn Burke made history on April 9, 1976, when, in a losing effort against the San Francisco Giants, he pinch-hit for the Los Angeles Dodgers. That day, Burke, a tremendously talented prospect, after years of fighting his way through the minor leagues…
Twenty years ago, just after the stroke of midnight on April 1, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in City Hall as the Netherlands became the first country in the world with legalized same-sex marriages. “There are two reasons to rejoice,″…
Rachel Crandall-Crocker, the creator of International Transgender Day of Visibility, wanted people to have a moment of happiness. So she made a Facebook post encouraging people to organize festivities in their hometowns and started messaging accounts from all over the world…
It was 1998 in Amsterdam, and Helene Faasen’s friend kept insisting she had the perfect match for a blind date. But Faasen, then 32, was hesitant about her friend’s confidence in the match. “It was basically on the criteria that we were…
Until 1973 the American Psychiatric Association defined being gay as having a mental illness. A new documentary recalls the struggle to change a definition which for years limited the rights of LGBT people in the US. But the film’s makers say…
In 2014, a box stuffed full of letters was discovered languishing in a Los Angeles storage unit. The letters, addressed to Reno Martin, were written by a group of drag queens who lived, loved and served looks in 1950s New York City…
Rachel Levine made history on Wednesday by becoming the first openly transgender person to obtain Senate confirmation as a presidential appointee, sending an unprecedented signal gender identity is not a barrier for obtaining a position in the highest levels of…
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