History

History

Leslie Cheung, a singer, poses on stage during a concert

The tragic story of Leslie Cheung, the fearless, sexually fluid pop idol who defied convention

Mar 31
5 min read

History

A photo illustration composed of British trans woman Roberta Cowell posed on her side with pink and purple graphics

The incredible life of Roberta Cowell: British trans innovator, war pilot and racing driver

Mar 31
4 min read

A picture of trans trailblazer Michael Dillon wearing red and yellow coloured Buddhist monk robes

History

First trans man to medically transition became a monk after his heart was broken

Mar 31
4 min read

Side by side photos of trans people throughout history that have been colourised by activist Eli Erlick

History

Trans people have always been here – and these photos prove it

Mar 31
3 min read

A split image of a Met Police officer and killer Stephen port.

UK

The Metropolitan police found to be corrupt in the 1970s – and it seems little has changed

Mar 22
5 min read

An illustrated drawing of St Patrick.

History

Why St Patrick refused to suck male sailors’ nipples

Mar 17
3 min read

A staff member examine the Ugly Duchess portait.

Arts

Renaissance painting An Old Woman may actually be a man, research finds: ‘She is most likely a he’

Mar 15
1 min read

International Women's Day 2021

History

Here’s why International Women’s Day remains vital in 2023

Mar 07
3 min read

Community

Mark Segal speaking at a JP Morgan panel on LGBTQ history (left) and pictured in his youth (right)

Stonewall Riots vet on respecting term ‘queer’ and why LGBTQ+ people must talk to their ‘enemies’

Mar 01
8 min read

Community

A scrapbook style image of older members of the LGBT+ community

LGBTQ+ elders share important lessons they wish they learned sooner: ‘We deserve good things’

Mar 01
8 min read

History

Marsha P Johnson pictured at a march in the early '70s. She is pictured wearing a long dress and a hat besides two activists who are holding up a giant fan. They are pictured on the streets of New York.

How Marsha P Johnson is still teaching LGBTQ+ people important lessons 30 years after her death

Feb 27
3 min read

History

William Shakespeare

Was Shakespeare queer? Historians think his most iconic sonnet was about an Elizabethan twink

Feb 26
3 min read

History

The Little Mermaid was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s own queer heartbreak

Feb 25
5 min read

History

Collage of photos showing Michael Cashman, Margaret Thatcher and a banner calling for the end of Section 28

How Section 28 lit a fire under Britain’s LGBTQ+ rights movement

Feb 22
7 min read

History

A graphic comprised of an image of Nobuko Yoshiya, a Japanese author, and the cover of Shōjo sekai, a girls’ shōjo magazine similar to where Yoshiya published her early work

Nobuko Yoshiya: Queer Japanese icon who adopted her girlfriend to get around same-sex marriage ban

Feb 20
4 min read

Community

An engraving of Roman emperor Hadrian weeping over the body of Antinous

Romosexuality: Embracing queer sex and love in ancient times

Feb 19
4 min read

Keira Knightley as Colette, and the real deal

History

Colette: True story of the revolutionary feminist author whose queer kiss sparked a riot in 1907

Feb 18
4 min read

An image composed of a picture of Akihiro Miwa, a Japanese drag queen and queer icon, and pictures of Miwa from different films

History

Meet the trailblazing Japanese drag queen who voiced a Studio Ghibli icon

Feb 16
4 min read

Two men wait for the results of their dive at the 2018 Gay Games. They stand with their arms around each other and they are pictured from behind standing beside a swimming pool.

Sport

How a queer athlete took on the Olympics to create the first-ever Gay Games

Feb 15
4 min read

Stuart Conroy (died 20 August 1992), Tomas Jerkestad (died spring 1994), and Steve Craftman, who is still alive today, pictured at a Pride event in 1989. The three men are dressed in leather.

History

New national HIV archive brings together 100 ‘powerful and extraordinary’ stories of epidemic

Feb 14
4 min read

Drag Race season 15 contestants Sugar (left) and Spice against a pink background

Drag

RuPaul’s Drag Race: How social media made drag’s subversive art form into a capitalist money maker

Feb 14
4 min read

An illustration depicting Ifti Nasim, a gay Pakistani-American poet, with the progressive Pride flag and writing in the background

History

Ifti Nasim: Meet the fearless gay Pakistani poet who survived a gunshot and made LGBTQ+ history

Feb 11
4 min read

Collage of photos of Simon

History

Simon Nkoli: Revolutionary South African gay activist who fought apartheid and HIV stigma

Feb 10
4 min read

Black and white photos of Marlene, a white woman with thin eyebrows, wavy blonde hair and dark lips, taped to a scrap of paper

History

How ultimate gay icon Marlene Dietrich paved the way for generations of LGBTQ+ Hollywood stars

Feb 09
4 min read

Terry Higgins pictured as an adult and in his teens on the right.

Activism

‘We were thrown out of a gay bar with our HIV leaflets’: How Terry Higgins’ friends mounted their fight

Feb 08
5 min read

Suranne Jones as Anne Lister in the TV series Gentleman Jack

History

Forgotten figures who challenged gender expression and identity centuries ago

Feb 07
4 min read

Margaret Thatcher

History

LGBT History Month: The bold, very British resistance to Section 28

Feb 05
3 min read

Lil Nas X wears a long black wig and off-the-shoulder lilac dress at the MTV VMAs 2021

History

The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X

Feb 04
4 min read