Francis is the co-founder of the revamped Mattachine Society in Washington DC, an LGBTQ+ historical society that also advocates for equality today. As an archive activist, he also cofounded The Kameny Papers Project to donate historic…
Being a part of the LGBTQ+ community can mean many things. Your identity and sexuality might differ from other community members, but one thing unites all: pride. For many years members of the LGBTQ+ community have…
What will you remember when you look back on the summer of 2023? Will it be the pink-drenched colours and plastic smiles of the Barbie movie? The one-in-a-lifetime show-womanship of Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour? Or the moment you lost faith…
While many are questioning the sexual identity of Ken in the new Barbie movie, there’s one studly disco-era male doll whose sexual identity have never been in doubt. Before Ryan Gosling brought the famed male Ken doll to life on…
It’s easy to get bogged down by all the anti-LGBTQ+ headlines as of late–from drag bans to rolling back protections for trans people. But these are not new. The United States has a long and enduring legacy of anti-queer policing…
On the afternoon of June 28, 1970, one of the first-ever Gay Liberation Day marches took place, originating on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, directly outside the Stonewall Inn. This event marked the first anniversary of the pivotal Stonewall Uprising…
Fifty years ago, on June 24, 1973, an arsonist set the UpStairs Lounge, a queer nightclub in New Orleans’ French Quarter, ablaze. When the flames cleared, 32 people were dead and another 15 were injured. The attack would…
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