LGBTQ rights

And the ways capital took advantage of the state's policing of sexuality.

Conversion therapies have never been about providing medical or mental care. Instead, they have been a tool to eradicate LGBTQ activism, culture and people.

The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.

How the city’s pioneering, pot-smoking queer activist rose from the ashes of anti-gay violence.

Why reinserting race and class into our understanding of Pride is so important.

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

A local gay rights activist launched a publicity stunt that became so much more. Congress couldn’t help but notice.

Why the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision was a major loss for gay rights.

The symbol was born from a dark time in history.

In her new book, ‘True Sex,’ historian Emily Skidmore looks at their lives and how society has treated them

A small act of protest that resulted in significant change.

As the stigma of being transgender begins to ease, medicine is starting to catch up

In 1966, the queens had finally had enough with years of discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.

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

Years before Stonewall, many clergy members were standing on the front lines for gay rights.

How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.

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

Long before “transgender” entered the lexicon, Christine Jorgensen became the year’s biggest story.

The Temecula Valley school board in Southern California wants to erase gay rights leader Harvey Milk from history, defaming him as a “pedophile” in the process.