History

History

Roman oil lamp depicting female oral sex from Turkey.
The British Museum adds five LGBT+ treasures to its permanent collection
San Francisco's LGBT+ History Museum.
Coronavirus delays San Fran’s new LGBT+ museum but the dream is still alive
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100 years of Tom of Finland and his stunning, sexy men
Buzz and Tommy in their lifeguard uniforms.
This photo of a couple from 1949 has got everyone wanting to find ‘Buzz’ and ‘Tommy’
Chinese Dragon lantern.
Dragons, emperors and the Rabbit God: China’s hidden LGBT+ myths
The Bloolips theatre company on stage
What is ‘radical drag’ and who were Bloolips?
The Stonewall Inn in 2017
What were the Stonewall riots?
gods of penis gods greek egypt buddhist
The stories of penis gods and the people who worship them
John O'Brien participated in the Stonewall riots
I rioted at Stonewall in 1969 – and there remain battles to be won
Bears Week Provincetown is one of the biggest bear gatherings in the world
A brief history of the gay bears and big boys scene
Prisoners in Mexico circa 1940 | Photo: INAH
This group of gay Mexicans arrested in 1935 are inspiring people in 2019
Festival of the Steel Phallus japan tokyo floats
Did you know there’s an annual penis festival in Japan?
Harvey Milk in NBC interview
How teaching LGBTI history could stop bullying in school
Dorothy Arzner (L) with actress Clara Bow on the set of The Wild Party.
Oscars snubs: the lesbian director who mentored Coppola but never won an award
Sacha Coward has a passion for LGBTI history
Stonewall is just one, important part of our never-ending queer history
do bisexual icons wear flowers in their hair is that their job | Photo: Wikimedia
The 11 bisexual people of color they didn’t teach you about in history class
Customers enjoying a night at the Upstairs Lounge
Remembering the gay bar inferno that most people have forgotten
A brief history of identities beyond the binary
Two pictures side by side, one is a portrait of James Wallace, the other is a picture of a young Walt Whitman.
The true story of the British man who loved queer poet Walt Whitman
Polari the secret language gay men use to survive
Polari: how the secret language Britain’s gay men used to survive died
Queer culture turned mainstream
Nine times queer culture went mainstream
Fred Hogan worked for the FBI before his arrest in Los Angeles in 1971
Remembering dad: Forced out of FBI for being gay and then lost to AIDS
Sacha Coward has a passion for LGBTI history
Why I’m angry at the fake gay history of soldiers Emil and Xaver
The grave of Emil and Xaver, soldiers from World War I
Untold love story of two World War I soldiers buried together is beautiful
A love letter
Love letter between nuns shows the true story of queerness in the Middle Ages
The Holsten Gate
Welcome to Lubeck: the marzipan Mecca of the world
Floyd Martin and Dene Greenough, Atlanta, 1992
AIDS activists from the 1990s remembered in powerful new photo book
The art of the vulva: do we have a problem with vaginal symbols?
The gay history of the X-Men proves they’re the queerest superheroes ever
Tom Hiddleston and Tessa Thompson fighting in a scene of Thor: Ragnarok.
The secret LGBTI history of Vikings, Valkyries and Norse gods
The Yukon is one of Canada's least populated areas – but is one of the most beautiful, and even has a pride parade | Photo: HJP Photography (supplied)
The hidden gay history of the Yukon, home to one of the most remote prides
How did Matthew Shepard become the symbol for homophobic hate crimes?
How the world got the Matthew Shepard story wrong (and why it doesn’t matter)