Although it continues to be dampened, the truth remains: Bodybuilding is a queer sport.

In 1994, a Missouri teacher wanted to give students better access to LGBTQ history. Thus, LGBTQ History Month was born.

When visitors stopped walking in the doors due to the pandemic, this enterprising museum decided to take their exhibits to people’s homes.

Hundreds of photos have been discovered – and digitizing them is a priority.

One of her books was denounced on the floor of Congress, but in the queer community Tee Corinne was a master of her craft. Now the wider world is starting to celebrate her too.

It’s been a long time coming, but officials at the Alice Austen House have thrown open the closet door, now fully embracing the lesbian photographer who lived in the house with her longtime partner, Gertrude Tate.

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

With the advent of the Polaroid, LGBTQ people were free to be themselves and have a lasting memory without having to drop off films to be developed by a third party.

It became such an unlucky and unwanted number that they have skipped it for hotel rooms, house numbers, building floors, and even battalion numbers.

Pauli Murray is, in many respects, the one-name answer to why we need LGBTQ History Month.

His coach introduced him to the team, saying ‘Oh, by the way, this is Glenn Burke. And he’s a faggot.’” Now the team hosts an LGBTQ Pride night in his honor.

The Supreme Court just ruled that people could be thrown in jail for being gay while the HIV epidemic ravaged the community, and two people knew that LGBTQ identity itself needed to be celebrated.

A small group of thoughtful, committed citizens force psychiatrists to reexamine their homophobia and transphobia. This is how it happened.

“You may take this as a declaration of war against you!” Frank Kameny declared.

“Homosexuals have gone beyond the plane of defensiveness and now argue that their deviancy is ‘a desirable, noble, preferable way of life.'” How dare they!

Before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazi party, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer to spread a message after he was gone. “Let it be known,” he said. “Homosexuals are not cowards.”

A behemoth in the entertainment industry and the largest private employer in Orange County, Disneyland had never lost a legal battle in court. Until this one.

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was a moral failing for America which had a real, detrimental impact on the lives of many of our citizens.

We recognize these seven veterans from the American Revolution to the present who, while not having lost their lives in military action, sacrificed themselves in other ways.

Dan White cried while he complained that Harvey Milk was being “devious and started kind of smirking” before he shot him.