Polari was spoken to skirt the UK’s strict anti-homosexuality laws. Though largely forgotten, some of its words can be found in dictionaries today. “Bona to vada your dolly old eek!” That may seem like a string of nonsense words from…
Black, gay playwright Michael R Jackson has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his acclaimed queer musical A Strange Loop. Jackson, who once worked as a Broadway usher on The Lion King, has found acclaim with his mindbogglingly…
The Admiral Duncan, a popular LGBT+ pub in Soho, London, will never forget the awful day a nail bomb attack claimed the lives of three people and injured dozens more. Friday April 30, 1999 was supposed to be the start of a…
The #MuseumFromHome initiative has staff and curators taking to the web to talk about items in their collection or their areas of expertise – and out exhibit designer Sacha Coward is one of the most popular. Every day of the lockdown…
A handwritten note on the back of a photo from 71 years ago has the internet looking for answers about lifeguards Buzz and Tommy. A Reddit user shared a vintage photograph of the two men holding hands in lifeguards’ uniforms in 1949…
Quarantined documentary fans can get a rare glimpse at pre-Stonewall queer history next week, thanks to San Francisco’s Tenderloin Museum and Roxie Theatre, who are joining forces to present a digital screening of a rarely-seen film delving into…
Today the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which recently returned to San Francisco after 20 years in Atlanta, contains 48,000 panels, 100,000 names, and measures to 1.3 million feet. It weighs 54 tons. But 35 years ago, it was an idea in Cleve Jones’ mind…
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