A diary written by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is being hailed as providing remarkable evidence of tolerance towards homosexuality in Britain much earlier than previously imagined. Historians from Oxford University have been taken aback to discover that Matthew Tomlinson’s…
It is 75 years today since Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated, which signalled the beginning of the end of one of the most horrifying chapters in modern history: the Holocaust. Every year on this day, the world remembers the millions of people…
Actor Wilson Cruz says a new documentary on the evolution of LGBTQ depictions on television is a ‘œlove letter’ to the medium’s power. It’s also a testament to how LGBTQ people and their allies harnessed TV to tell the community’s stories…
How did homosexuality in humans evolve? Typically, this question is posed as a paradox. The argument is this: gay sex alone can’t produce children, and for traits to evolve, they have to be passed onto children, who get some form of…
January 12 marks 20 years since the UK’s ban on gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the British Army and the UK’s armed forces was lifted. The lifting of the ban on LGB soldiers, which followed a ruling from the…
Researchers at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University found themselves the beneficiaries of a lucky twist of fate when a simple Google search led them to a rare document credited with helping to lay the foundation for the gay rights movement…
At the dawn of the year 2010, few Americans could predict that the coming decade would revolutionize the legal and cultural landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. After all, it was only in 2003 that homosexuality was decriminalized across the country…
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