Black LGBTQ people have profoundly shaped American culture — and yet, it’s rare to see their full identities acknowledged. In Black spaces, revolutionaries like Angela Davis and James Baldwin are celebrated for their pro-Black activism while their queerness is left out…
In 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, Robert Dover made Olympics history by blazing a trail for generations of gay athletes to come. That was when Dover matter-of-factly told the public that he was gay. In our latest episode of…
Susan B. Anthony was born 200 years ago in a country where few women or people of color dared to give political speeches on public platforms and that had no national voting rights for women. Both straight and queer women were often…
You probably know what it means to “come out” as gay. You may even have heard the expression used in relation to other kinds of identity, such as being undocumented. But do you know where the term comes from?…
A diary written by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is being hailed as providing remarkable evidence of tolerance towards homosexuality in Britain much earlier than previously imagined. Historians from Oxford University have been taken aback to discover that Matthew Tomlinson’s…
It is 75 years today since Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated, which signalled the beginning of the end of one of the most horrifying chapters in modern history: the Holocaust. Every year on this day, the world remembers the millions of people…
Actor Wilson Cruz says a new documentary on the evolution of LGBTQ depictions on television is a ‘œlove letter’ to the medium’s power. It’s also a testament to how LGBTQ people and their allies harnessed TV to tell the community’s stories…
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