At a virtual federal court hearing Wednesday, the judge indicated he’d likely unseal the tapes of the Proposition 8 trial. Judge William H. Orrick of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California stated that he will…
The British Museum has added five new LGBT+ artefacts to its collection, improving the diversity of its collection with priceless pieces of queer history. The pieces, which will be permanently displayed at the museum, include a “nine-bob note” from the…
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their favorite Wikipedia pages about historical queer figures. 🏳️🌈 Here are the fascinating results…
Queers have been getting married to one another long before the Obergefell Supreme Court decision in 2015 paved the way for nationwide marriage equality, and I don’t mean that in a metaphorical “they were married in their hearts” sense. Lesbians, gay…
In 1860s Germany, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs urged other gay people to publicly reveal their sexual orientation. In 1914, Magnus Hirschfeld wrote of the revolutionary potential of respected gay women and men coming out en masse. By the late 1960s…
Victims and survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting — the worst hate crime against LGBTQ+ people in U.S. history — will be honored tonight with a virtual service, streaming on Facebook and YouTube. It was four years ago today that an armed…
A story of queer liberation is concealed in a dystopian-looking crypt in Washington, D.C. You can’t find it under the gilded ceiling and marble columns of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building. Instead, you have to enter the mammoth, rectangular…
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