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10 must-know facts about transgender history that you didn’t learn in school
Trans people have been kings and queens, fought in wars, and led the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, thriving despite widespread social oppression.
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How Afrofuturism has empowered queer Black artists
Afrofuturism is a way to imagine the unimaginable so it can be made real.
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I am the founder of LGBTQ History Month. Now I’m working to spread it across the world.
The Int’l Committee on LGBTQ+ History Months is one of academics, historians, archivists, and activists. All of us believe in the power of history.
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LGBTQ studies programs exist because of fierce student activism. Here’s how it all began.
Identity groups previously disenfranchised from curricular decision-making gained a certain ascendency during the turmoil of the 1960s.
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This lesbian pioneer’s legacy lives on in love letters & the characters she inspired
Violet Trefusis is known for her passionate love affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West. And for being unapologetic about her sexuality.
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Meet Charles Hamilton: the 18th century “female husband” who scandalized British society
Charles Hamilton was described as being “bold and impudent” and continued to defy the world even as the world closed in.
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Queer Black people invented House Music. This is the remarkable history of the beloved genre.
As the AIDS epidemic grew, so did the need for escapism in the form of music.
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How zines became a beacon of queer love & community
For queer people, zines are—and always have been—freedom.
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Before Stonewall LGBTQ people rose up at the Black Nite bar. It will soon be a historical landmark.
“We didn’t start anything, but we sure as hell finished it,” said “queen” Josie Walker of Milwaukee’s historic Black Nite Brawl.
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Meet the woman who was jailed 3 times for bringing cannabis brownies to AIDS patients
They called her Brownie Mary, and she called the young gay men she helped her kids.