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Harvey Milk, sitting at his desk, December 4, 1977.

Why Is Harvey Milk Still Dangerous, 46 Years After He Was Assassinated?

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.
by Peter Dreier via Jacobin on June 11, 2023
Transgender woman marching in a pride parade.
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Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions

More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.
via Retro Report on May 30, 2023
Photographs of a family sitting at table, a woman in a crowd, and parents holding signs of support at a pride parade.

How One Mother’s Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution

In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of being a parent.
by Kathryn Schulz via The New Yorker on April 10, 2023
The old New York Times building in 2006.

The New York Times is Repeating One of Its Most Notorious Mistakes

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.
by Jack Mirkinson via The Nation on February 20, 2023
Anita Bryant with pie on face

Proposition 6 (The Briggs Initiative): Annotated

Proposition 6, better known as the Briggs Initiative, was the first attempt to restrict the rights of lesbian and gay Americans by popular referendum.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on October 28, 2022
Photograph of San Francisco Supervisor Dan White standing behind the counter of his fast-food restaurant, the Hot Potato, in October 1978.

How San Francisco (?!) Helped Give Birth to Modern American Fascism

Remember Dan White? He was the Kyle Rittenhouse of his day. No wonder Tucker Carlson loves him.
by David Masciotra via The New Republic on September 30, 2022
Stewart Butler at his desk, speaking and gesturing.

The Fiery Life of Stewart Butler, New Orleans’ Great Gay “Political Animal”

How the city’s pioneering, pot-smoking queer activist rose from the ashes of anti-gay violence.
by Robert W. Fieseler via Slate on June 25, 2022
People marching with anBi, a bisexual organization, carry a bisexual flag in the 43rd Los Angeles Pride Parade on June 9, 2013.

What People Get Wrong About the History of Bisexuality

Bisexuality introduces nuance, which has always made it easier to discard than accommodate it .
by Julia Shaw via TIME on June 23, 2022
Participants celebrate during the L.A. Pride Parade in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on June 12, 2022.
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The History Missing From the LGBTQ Story Told During Pride Month

Why reinserting race and class into our understanding of Pride is so important.
by Beau Lancaster via Made By History on June 20, 2022
Harvey Milk (left) at Gay Pride, San Jose, California 1978.

Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech

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.
by Liz Tracey, Harvey Milk via JSTOR Daily on June 13, 2022
Cover of "Bad Gays" book, with subtitle "A Homosexual History" superimposed over a Roman statue's mouth and beard.

What History’s “Bad Gays” Can Tell Us About the Queer Past and Present

A new book examines explores the ways that an uncritical celebration of “good” gays and “good” gayness can cause harm.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 3, 2022
"Stalls for All" sign with transgender flag hearts

Transgender Legal Battles: A Timeline

New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.
by Mena Davidson via JSTOR Daily on May 12, 2022
Brett Kavanaugh
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What Justice Kavanaugh Gets Wrong About Abortion and Neutrality

Calls for the court to remain neutral have long been tools for denying Americans rights.
by David Cohen, Maya Manian via Made By History on December 13, 2021
One of Jerry Weller's photo albums, with notes that Patti May gave to GLAPN identifying people in the pictures.

The Precious, Precarious Work of Queer Archiving in the Pacific Northwest

Local legacy-keepers are working to ensure that the histories aren't lost or forgotten.
by Emma Banks via Atlas Obscura on June 9, 2021
Scratched photograph of Don Ward and Robert in the early seventies.

The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families

In the 1970s, social workers in several states placed queer teenagers with queer foster parents, in discrete acts of quiet radicalism.
by Michael Waters via The New Yorker on February 28, 2021
Covers of issues of One magazine, featuring line drawings and article titles including "I am glad I am homosexual," and "I Just Had to Write".

ONE: The First Gay Magazine in the United States

ONE is a vital archive, but its focus on citizenship and “rational acceptance” ultimately blocked it from being the safe home for all that it claimed to be.
by Mairead Case via JSTOR Daily on July 15, 2020
Heavily armed police patrolling Los Angeles in the 1960s.

“No Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”

From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.
by Mike Davis, Jon Wiener, Meagan Day via Jacobin on May 29, 2020

Love One Another or Die

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.
by Amy Hoffman via Boston Review on April 2, 2020
Marchers carry a banner that reads "Lesbian & Gay Rights - Human Rights"

The History of 'Coming Out,' from Secret Gay Code to Popular Political Protest

In the 1950s, 'coming out' meant quietly acknowledging one's sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad array of social movements.
by Abigail C. Saguy via The Conversation on February 10, 2020

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

Mo Rocca on the struggle to depathologize homosexuality.
by Mo Rocca via Literary Hub on November 6, 2019

How the Nazi Regime's Pink Triangle Symbol Was Repurposed for LGBTQ Pride

The symbol was born from a dark time in history.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on May 31, 2018

The Story Behind California's Unprecedented Textbooks

California Is adopting LGBT-Inclusive history textbooks. It's the latest chapter in a centuries-long fight.
by Katy Steinmetz via TIME on November 14, 2017
Edythe Eyde

She Risked Jail to Create A Magazine for Lesbians

Decades before "The L Word," Edythe Eyde knew her magazine for lesbians — Vice Versa — was illegal.
by Julia Carpenter via Retropolis on July 12, 2017
The Stonewall Inn with rainbow flags and window decorations.

Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Lucy Santos Green via Digital Public Library of America on January 1, 2017

NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

The first initiative to document historic and cultural sites associated with the LGBT community in the five boroughs.
by Andrew S. Dolkart, Ken Lustbader, Jay Shockley via NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project on January 1, 2016

To Have and to Hold

Griswold v. Connecticut became about privacy; what if it had been about equality?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 25, 2015

What Was Gay?

In a more accepting world, homosexual men can leave their campy, cruising past, but the price of equality shouldn't be conformity.
by J. Bryan Lowder via Slate on May 12, 2015

The Perfect Wife

How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.
by Ariel Levy via The New Yorker on September 30, 2013
Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
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The Homosexual in Our Society

This 1958 interview is the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality.
by Blanche M. Baker, KPFA, Elsa Knight Thompson, Harold Leland Call, Leah Gailey via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 24, 1958
A hand holds a US flag and a pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building in a crowd celebrating the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
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How the Supreme Court Ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges Legalized Same-Sex Marriage

When Jim Obergefell and his partner John Arthur decided to marry after more than 20 years together, their home state refused to recognize same-sex marriages.
by Kit R. Roane via Retro Report on June 18, 2025
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