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The bawdy genderqueer lesbian singer who helped shape the sound of the Harlem Renaissance
Gladys Bentley was on top of the world until the Lavender Scare forced her back into the closet.
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The Black queer icon who spied on Nazis, flew a WWII plane, & was also a vaudeville superstar
To fans, Josephine Baker was the ultimate sex symbol. But behind the scenes, she played a crucial role in the second World War.
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A gay psychiatrist donned a Nixon mask & came out to colleagues in 1972. He changed the world.
“Dr. Anonymous” bravely took on the American Psychiatric Association to declare that being gay is not a mental illness.
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How a gay Holocaust survivor-turned-Nazi hunter took down one of the Reich’s most prominent leaders
Fritz Bauer single-handedly brought dozens of war criminals to justice for an untold number of human rights offenses.
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A lesbian WWII vet was renowned for standing up to Eisenhower. Was it all a lie?
Johnnie Phelps may have fabricated the story, but she was still a pioneering lesbian advocate.
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The trans midwife who cared for General Custer’s army
Mrs. Nash was one of the most valued members of the community, and no one knew she was trans until her death.
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New Orleans declared a “climate of hostility” towards gays. It ended in murder
The courtroom erupted into cheers as the judge announced the verdict.
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The genderqueer tragedy of Sporus, Roman Emperor Nero’s last “empress”
The story is so dark, fantastical, and profoundly queer it seems ripped directly from a Ryan Murphy series.
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Meet Gay Bob: the world’s first gay doll who took the late 1970s by storm
Bob was a doll that knew what he wanted – to live authentically while teaching other people, queer and straight, what it meant to be “out.”
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The savage Christmas murder that rocked a Louisiana gay bar
It took years for the truth of what really happened to shake out.
