queer history

By offering the group as a model for present-day politics, Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP reproduces the movement’s failures and exclusions.

Gay marriage was a victory, we’re told—but a victory for what?

Five men sat together on a hillside in the late afternoon, imagining a world in which they did not have to hide.

What seemed to enrage a former inmate most was the mutual consent of the men he lived with.

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.

Through her relationships with other women, one can trace the evidence of McCullers’s becoming, as a woman, as a lesbian, and as a writer.

In the post-WWII era, American lesbians negotiated lives between straight marriages and homosexual affairs.

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

Minnie Bruce Pratt shares her own story as a lesbian within the South, and the activism that occurred and the activism still ongoing.

The story of Jemima Wilkinson, otherwise known as the Public Universal Friend.

In the 50s and 60s, steamy novels about lesbian relationships, marketed to men, gave closeted women needed representation.

How the story itself came out.

The New York Times should have done a better job fact-checking Appiah’s essay. Philosophy may be allegorical. History isn’t.

Despite a seeming absence from the historical record, people who did not conform to traditional gender norms were a part of daily life in the Old West.

Rose Cleveland declared her passion for the woman she had a relationship with spanning three decades in letter after letter.

Buttigieg believes he probably won’t be the first gay president if he’s elected in 2020.

Jeanna Kadlec considers Anne Lister, the center figure of HBO’s Gentleman Jack, and the influence of other preceding queer women.

Despite a thriving queer community in Washington, the 1950s State Department fired gay and lesbian workers en masse.

Black America talks back to "The Good Gray Poet" at 200.

From 1947 until the 1990s, an estimated 10,000 LGBTQ people were pushed out of government and military positions.