queer history

A UC Berkeley student’s award-winning research shines a light on LGBTQ+ life in Japanese American concentration camps during World War II.

The arson attack on a New Orleans nightclub was the largest massacre of queer people in 20th-century America—and it remains relevant to our present moment.

“Queer” has experienced a loss of meaning and a curdling of political potential. To reinvigorate it, we need a new approach to history.

With more queer history detectives, what could our future look like?

An interview on the queer history of a forgotten prison.

Bisexuality introduces nuance, which has always made it easier to discard than accommodate it .

A new book examines explores the ways that an uncritical celebration of “good” gays and “good” gayness can cause harm.

Sexless, impersonal academic approaches tell us little about the lived experiences of the LGBT community.

In a growing number of states, the GOP is pushing “Don’t Say Gay” laws to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.

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

Colonial Williamsburg has acknowledged to the LGBTQ community that people like them “have always existed.”

From activist and academic roots, a field takes shape.

'The Future Is Female' was popularized in 2015, but the slogan was created 40 years earlier.

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

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

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

The long history of trans.

My hunt for one man across the lonely expanse of the queer past ended in a place I never expected.

A quiet movement that began in the 1920s didn’t disappear—it just went underground.

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