Tony Curran (centre) as James I and Nicholas Galitzine (right) as George Villiers.
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It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
Wikimedia/Johann Heinrich Tischbein, oil painting (1781)
The ancient evidence suggests Alexander was particularly close with one of his male companions. But how close exactly?
Dannii Minogue and two of the I Kissed a Boy contestants, Joseph and Ross.
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Camp can be an attitude, a style or a behaviour and it consists of several components – exaggeration, artificiality or theatricality, breaking social norms and silliness which results in humour.
Li Shiu Tong, right, was the boyfriend and intellectual heir of German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.
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When Li Shiu Tong died in 1993, his unpublished manuscript about sexuality was almost thrown away. Yet it contains views on bisexuality and gender fluidity that would resonate with young people today.
A mug shot of Neville McQuade (aged 18) and Lewis Stanley Keith (aged 19), taken at North Sydney Police Station in June 1942.
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From the “goo goo” boys mocked for their love of theatre to cross-dressing troops and “trouser women”, Australia has a rich queer history.
LGBTQ candidates made strides on Tuesday.
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Delaware’s Sarah McBride made history on Tuesday when she won a state Senate seat, becoming the US’s highest-ranking transgender politician. A record 1,006 LGBTQ candidates ran for office this year.
Matthew Tomlinson’s diary is full of insights into Georgian England.
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Matthew Tomlinson deplored the execution of a naval surgeon for sodomy, writing that the death penalty was cruel and unfair.
Dennis Altman in Santa Cruz California in 1984,
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New York in the early 1980s was a time of literary salons, concentrated ambition and a flowering of gay cultural power.
A riot that kick-started the gay rights movement.
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Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, what is their political legacy for LGBTQ activism?
Revellers celebrate Sydney Mardi Gras. Oxford Street has been the centre of LGBTQI celebration and activism since the 1970s.
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Sydney’s LGBTQI heartland has moved and changed over time, but the importance of urban space to queer communities remains a constant.
A dangerous romance in the 1950s.
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The story of the trial of Peter Wildeblood.
2016 San Francisco pride parade.
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Gay pride has many exuberant advocates. It also has critics in unexpected places.