Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch painter who fiercely resisted the Nazis in occupied Holland. Born in 1894, he died in 1943, at the age of 49. Arondeus’s father kicked him out of the house when he was young for being gay…
Coronavirus dominated news around the world in 2020, creating particular challenges for the LGBT+ community in terms of mental health, access to HIV medication and scapegoating by religious groups seeking to apportion blame for the virus. The year provided the backdrop…
On 26 March, 1977, a couple of lesbian feminist activists in a secret relationship pulled off an incredible lovers’ plot: holding the first-ever meeting on LGBT+ rights at the White House. When Jean O’Leary, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force…
Today marks an important anniversary for lesbian, gay, and bisexual military members — 10 years ago, President Barack Obama signed legislation repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that had forced them to remain in the closet or risk discharge…
If you can bring yourself to look back at 2020, it’s hard not to write it all off as a screaming trashfire ejected straight from the bowels of hell. It’s incredible to think that a year that began with an entire…
Six years into his career as a linguist at the National Security Agency in 1980, Jamie Shoemaker was called into the office of the Agency’s security apparatus. “They read me my rights,” he recalls, “and they said ‘we understand you’re leading…
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