On Martin Luther King Jr Day, we revisit the legendary civil rights leader’s relationship with LGBT+ rights. Dr King’s legacy is towering and complex. He devoted his life to – and was ultimately murdered for – advancing the rights of Black Americans…
When LGBT+ pioneers are discussed, a number of famous faces probably spring to mind. However, one person you may not immediately think of is Caroline Cossey – also known as Tula – a Bond girl, dancer and top model who took the…
Was there ever been a more exciting time to come out of the closet than 1970s San Francisco? There was Harvey Milk’s rise to power, Sylvester’s seductive disco music, the thriving gay bar and leather scene, Armistead Maupin’s…
In 1990, Vancouver hosted an international sports event that attracted more than 7,000 athletes plus thousands of artists, writers and tourists from around the world. It was called Celebration ’90 Gay Games III & Cultural Festival. For eight days in August, it put Vancouver…
For the second time this year, an iconic Castro bar is turning to patrons and fans for help, as it once again sits closed and without a source of revenue for an indefinite span of time. Twin Peaks Tavern, which…
Archaeologists who have been excavating an Ancient Roman snack bar in Pompeii, Italy, have discovered “homophobic” graffiti scrawled on the walls. According to a press release from Pompeii Sites, the colourful Thermopolium of Regio V was one of the…
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…
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