Victims and survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting — the worst hate crime against LGBTQ+ people in U.S. history — will be honored tonight with a virtual service, streaming on Facebook and YouTube. It was four years ago today that an armed…
A story of queer liberation is concealed in a dystopian-looking crypt in Washington, D.C. You can’t find it under the gilded ceiling and marble columns of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building. Instead, you have to enter the mammoth, rectangular…
San Francisco’s first LGBTQ Pride parade was almost unrecognizable by today’s standards. To pay tribute to the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City—a six-day clash between police and queer bargoers in the West Village—around…
Every year, as summer beckons, Pride month arrives in a burst of color. Around the world, rainbow flags fly high and revelers turn their faces proudly towards the sky.The multicolored flag has united the LGBTQ community for over 40 years, and…
It is 125 years today since Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labour for the simple crime of being gay. Wilde’s conviction in 1895 came as something of a shock in London literary circles…
Polari was spoken to skirt the UK’s strict anti-homosexuality laws. Though largely forgotten, some of its words can be found in dictionaries today. “Bona to vada your dolly old eek!” That may seem like a string of nonsense words from…
Black, gay playwright Michael R Jackson has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his acclaimed queer musical A Strange Loop. Jackson, who once worked as a Broadway usher on The Lion King, has found acclaim with his mindbogglingly…
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