History

History

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)
Sherri Gray is a singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee | Facebook
This LGBTI history song composed by a grandma will give you all the feels
The gay history of Taipei gay pride
The modern gay history of Taipei, Asia’s most LGBTI-friendly city
Unicorns are the queer icons of our time
The 'Friendship Kiss' between a US and Russian soldier in 1945
The secret gay history of Russia
Soldiers performing in drag in World War II
How gay men in World War II used drag to navigate an ‘abnormal environment’
Oscar Wilde, photographed on a US tour in 1882
Who was Oscar Wilde?
Colin Bailey (right) and Julio enjoying a rooftop dinner in 1979
My partner stopped having sex with me after being diagnosed with HIV
Gay composer Tchaikovsky wrote Swan Lake, imagined here with an all male cast by Matthew Bourne | Photo: New Adventures / Helen Maybanks
Tchaikovsky’s secret gay history that Russia doesn’t want you to know
LGBTQ people in the Holocaust
The Holocaust is fading from people’s minds in the United States
Erotica and gay porn from past decades
Everything important that has ever happened in the history of gay porn
Philippe kisses the Chevalier in the TV series Versailles
The secret, sexy gay and lesbian history of Versailles
This is how Ruth Coker-Burks became the 'cemetery angel'
How Ruth Coker-Burks became the angel of America’s AIDS crisis
A new book, 'Telling Tales' is looking at 40 years of Sydney's Mardi Gras through a very personal lens | Photo: Richard Hedger
Five incredible, personal stories from 40 years of Sydney Mardi Gras
The show Bromans followed men and women battle in Roman and Gladiator inspired events | Photo: ITV2 Bromans
You could have gay sex in the Roman army, so long as you were the top
'Hotlanta Hotmen' by Mike Balaban - as featured on Capturing Rainbows
Everyday moments of gay history captured on new website
The late David Kato.
This is how Uganda got its anti-gay laws in the first place
How long as Disney been hiding gay characters in plain sight | Photo: Disney
This is why Disney hides ‘coded gay’ characters in its movies
Profile portrait of Virginia Woolf
6 amazing facts about the bisexual author Virginia Woolf
Andrew Cunanan
Who were the other men murdered by Versace killer Andrew Cunanan?
A brief history of George Washington Carver: the greatest ‘bisexual’ black scientist of his time
Stephen Colbert portrays Vladimir Putin as super gay icon
These are the most idiotic homophobes and transphobes of 2017
Some of the notable LGBTI figures who died in 2017
The LGBTI figures we lost in 2017
A rainbow flag is waved at Paris pride
Paris opening an LGBT archive center in 2020
Black soldiers during the American Civil War.
What a gay history of slavery and the Civil War can teach us
People celebrating the legalization of marriage equality in the US
Edie Windsor and more tell their stories about marriage equality in new book