drag

The Pyramid Club is the stuff of downtown New York legend. In the 1980s, a tiny little dive bar became ground zero for the exploding New York drag scene.

Experts see parallels between modern restrictions on drag shows and the cross-dressing laws that led police to arrest Babe Bean over 120 years ago in California.

In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann's private balls attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press.

For decades, conservatives were fine with sexually charged cross-dressing entertainment — so long as it reinforced traditional power structures.

William Dorsey Swann fought for queer freedom a century before Stonewall.

Queerness has always existed — even on the Civil War battlefield.

More than three decades since "Paris Is Burning" put the underground scene on a world stage, ball culture remains a haven for the queer community.

A new book examines battles over drag story hours and book bans through the lens of LGBTQ history.

Transgender people's reactions to watching oral histories of the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.

The celebrations created space for people to subvert gender norms, as New Orleans' LGBTQ communities built new traditions of their own.

‘Time Warp’ all the way back to the 1800s.

The internet has expanded how we understand the possibilities of the trans experience.

The long history of trans.

Live entertainment, all genders and straight people are back—and were here in the beginning

Bounce is defined by its “up-tempo, call-and-response, heavy base, ass-shaking music” and by its transgressively liberatory power.

Acknowledging the queer culture of the Harlem Renaissance is essential in order to paint a full picture of the period.

This digital exploration of the region's LGBTQ community from 1946 to 1992 includes an interactive map and several thematic StoryMaps.

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, L.G.B.T.Q. communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power.

The first initiative to document historic and cultural sites associated with the LGBT community in the five boroughs.

In a more accepting world, homosexual men can leave their campy, cruising past, but the price of equality shouldn't be conformity.

“Transgender” has gone from an umbrella term for different behaviors, to an umbrella term for different identities.

On Jazz Age gay culture and its backlash.

A fascinating new exhibit focuses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.

The new documentary “I Am Everything” explores the gulf between what Richard accomplished and what he got for it.

A camp diva, a queer icon, and a model of feminism—the memorable Mae West left behind a complicated legacy, on and off the stage.

Today’s creepy clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.

'Pet of the Petticoats' extends the reach of Anglo-Atlantic anti-Catholicism to the stage, illustrating the ways its tropes and anxieties moved across genres.

Local legacy-keepers are working to ensure that the histories aren't lost or forgotten.