The Chevalier d’Eon is an idiosyncratic figure in French history: a powerful spy and statesman who became an overnight...
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Fifty years ago, the world witnessed the first strike for gay rights in one of the more unlikely places:...
These images of bodybuilders and men in skimpy briefs were taken at a time when making and distributing...
In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford,...
From a CIA memorandum entitled “Homosexual Investigations” that was written in 1980 for the purpose of investigating colleagues. The...
Today, it would be easy to assume that same-gender desire, particularly among men, is at odds with the history...
LGBT+ History Month is celebrated every February across the UK and was founded in 2004 by Schools OUT co-chairs,...
I will be using the older term “transvestite” throughout this piece as that is the terminology that was used...
With the advent of the Polaroid, LGBTQ people were free to be themselves and have a lasting memory without...
It used to be a tribal signal but as gay style has moved into the mainstream, the look has...