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How the Stud, A San Francisco Queer Bar for the “Freaks,” Was Reborn

By Oliver Haug

April 19, 2024

Searching for Gene Lamar, the Vers Legend of ’80s Black Gay Porn

By Brontez Purnell

February 28, 2024

Marcel and Me: How Ballroom’s First Historian Made My Life Possible

By Sydney Baloue

February 28, 2024

“An Iconoclast, a Legend, and an Art Mama:” Vaginal Davis Is the Blueprint

By Mykki Blanco

February 6, 2024

Gospel Music Would Be Nothing Without Black Queer and Trans Artists

By Derrick Clifton

February 1, 2024

Our Queer and Jewish Grief Must Fuel Our Fight to Let Gaza Live

By Rabbi Elliot Kukla

November 28, 2023

This Archive Offers an Incredible Window Into the Early Trans Internet

By Samantha Riedel

November 22, 2023

Inside the Historic Lesbian Cafes That Fed the Feminist Movement

By Leo Kirts

November 22, 2023

Historian Lillian Faderman Is the Bard of Sexual Outlaws and Lipstick Lesbians

By Colleen Hamilton

November 3, 2023

The Long History of How Halloween Became a Sacred Queer Holiday

By Oliver Haug

October 26, 2023

Fran Lebowitz on Astrology, Taylor Swift, and Lesbian Period Pieces

By Wren Sanders

October 6, 2023

In “The Aunties,” Farmers Donna Dear and Paulette Greene Continue Harriet Tubman’s Legacy

By Wren Sanders

September 1, 2023

The Surprising Story of Princess Seraphina, England’s Earliest Drag Queen

By Jake Hall

August 24, 2023

How Queer People Reinvented the Beach

By Michael Waters

August 21, 2023

“Stonewall Never Happened:” Miss Major on the Broken Promise of Our Movement’s Most Famous Uprising

By Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek

May 11, 2023

Jazz Legend Little Jimmy Scott Is a Cornerstone of Black Intersex History

By Sean Saifa Wall

February 23, 2023

Big Mama Thornton Gave Me Permission to Exist

By Pamela Sneed

February 15, 2023

How Assotto Saint Taught Me to Live Again

By Danez Smith

February 8, 2023

The Undeniable Ovahness of MC Debra

By Sydney Baloue

February 1, 2023

Octavia and Me

By Syrus Marcus Ware

December 14, 2022

Patrick Haggerty’s Resplendent Sissy Pride

By Annie Howard

November 4, 2022

9 Gay Ghosts and Where to Find Them: A Guide to Notable Queer Hauntings

By Ken Summers

October 21, 2022

As a Queer Desi, Henna Art Helps Me Honor My Divine Femininity

By Shahamat Uddin

July 8, 2022

A Short History of the Rainbow Pride Flag

By Jesse Dorris

June 27, 2022

Remembering Dora Richter, One of the First Women to Receive Gender-Affirming Surgery

By Samantha Riedel

March 15, 2022

The History of National Coming Out Day Contains Both Pride and Pain

By Kate Sosin, The 19th

October 8, 2021

The Olympic Games Are Racist to Their Core

By James Factora

August 27, 2021

Yes, There Are Queer Royals

By Isiah Magsino

February 22, 2021

The Queer Suffragists Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote

By Sarah D. Collins

August 14, 2020

Read This Spellbinding Historical Account of What Happened at the Stonewall Riots

By Eric Cervini

July 24, 2020

If You're a Young Activist, You Need This History of Protests and Resistance in America

By Marke B.

July 7, 2020

Lady Romeo Tells the Story of a Forgotten Queer Shakespeare Actress

By Molly Sprayregen

July 7, 2020

What Is Pride Month and the History of Pride?

By Matt Baume

June 25, 2020

100 Years Ago, This Lesbian Doctor Helped Contain NYC’s Typhoid Epidemic

By Sarah Prager

April 24, 2020

“Where Was This When My Friends Were Dying?”: HIV Crisis Survivors Reflect on Coronavirus

By Sarah Prager

March 18, 2020

The Unapologetically Black, Queer, and Movement-Oriented Activism of Bayard Rustin

By Ashia Ajani

February 24, 2020

5 Activists Reflect on This Decade’s Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights

By Naveen Kumar

December 19, 2019

Theorist Susan Stryker on One of Her Most Groundbreaking Essays, 25 Years Later

By Wren Sanders

November 14, 2019

How to Honor Sylvia Rivera's Legacy

By Samantha Riedel

November 13, 2019