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.-
A short history of the long road to decriminalizing sexuality in the US
From ancient Greece to modern day America, gay people have endured seemingly endless restrictions on their simple desire to be who they are.
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LGBTQ+ History Month is celebrated around the world. It all started with one man & a dream.
The founder of LGBTQ+ History Month reflects on thirty years of celebrating queer stories.
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Frank Kameny & Sylvia Rivera are heroes, but their deaths reveal a sad truth about queer elders
They were trailblazers for LGBTQ+ rights, but lived in relative poverty. Here are the untold stories of their final days.
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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.
