Celebrating LGBTQ History Month: How it started and why it matters
In 1994, a Missouri teacher wanted to give students better access to LGBTQ history. Thus, LGBTQ History Month was born.-
Country music has always been queer…seriously
Rebels in lavender cowboy hats existed long before Orville Peck and Lil Nas X were on the scene.
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How did testosterone become so criminalized? The ’90s Olympic bribery scandal that started it all.
Moral panic over steroids has always had the criminalization of transmasculine people as collateral damage.
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Africa’s rich LGBTQ+ history has long been suppressed & activists are taking a stand
Diverse sexual orientations and gender identities have existed within African communities for centuries, yet many still believe it is a Western import.
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New series depicts a dark moment in queer history & shows how oppressors manipulate the oppressed
Alongside the love story in “Fellow Travelers” lurks a more insidious tragedy.
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America’s first out elected officials were two civil rights warriors you’ve probably never heard of
Before there was Harvey Milk, Barney Frank, or Danica Roem, there was Jerry and Nancy.
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We’ll learn how to win: HRC’s first leader says history proves LGBTQ+ folks can take on the right
“There is little doubt in my mind that we will overcome this,” said Victor Basile. “How much time that takes, I don’t know.”
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‘Bury them in fruit jars.’ A gay mass murder and the cover-up that followed
Fifty years after the deadly fire at New Orleans’ Up Stairs Lounge, new perspectives consider the atrocities that occurred after the blaze.
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To hide our history is to deny our existence: Kids must learn what queer folks have given the world
Queer people gave us computers, the Mona Lisa, and “Where the Wild Things Are.” LGBTQ+ youth deserve to see that they aren’t alone.
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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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This bisexual Black anarchist escaped from prison twice in the name of radical revolution
Kuwasi Balagoon was a New Afrikan Anarchist who viewed Black Americans as a “subjugated nation” that deserved to resist the conditions forced onto them.
