“The poor homosexuals — they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution,” former Nixon adviser and conservative journalist Pat Buchanan wrote May 24, 1983 in a New York Post column “AIDS Disease: It’s Nature Striking Back.” The year before…
It is generally hard to know when a social revolution has achieved its goals. In the case of the American gay rights revolution, however, it appears that this is an easy one to call. At least as far as the…
From the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to address homosexuality to the first bisexual “Bachelorette,” here are 10 historic LGBTQ milestones from around the world…
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has made history as the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympic Games. The 43-year-old New Zealander has become the first trans competitor to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. Laurel Hubbard, who is 16th in the…
Charles Silverstein was a university student in psychology when he attended a workshop at a behavioural therapy convention in October 1972. The topic was aversion therapy, a form of pseudoscientific conversion therapy in which gay men were administered electric shocks and other…
Five years ago, on 12 June 2016, 49 people were killed and 53 others wounded in a brutal mass shooting in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Around 320 people were inside Pulse nightclub when a 29-year-old man entered the building with two guns at a…
It’s impossible to get to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown without navigating through miles upon miles of two-lane upstate New York roads. Based on the types of signs and flags you encounter through a procession of Middleburghs and…
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