Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
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It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
The ancient evidence suggests Alexander was particularly close with one of his male companions. But how close exactly?
The marking of queer history and contribution is often absent from cities, but efforts are growing to include the stories of underrepresented LGBT communities.
In recent years, TV shows have started to explicitly state a character’s sexuality. But bisexual characters rarely have such moments in film.
Asexuality remains widely misunderstood. Here’s what it means and how this sexuality became a social movement.
A paper trail, both typed and handwritten, documents Cummings’ dogged efforts to secure accommodations and resources for the Windrushers on a time crunch.
A lost album by the late Prince, set for release in 2023, promises to highlight how the pop pioneer played with gender roles.
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
New York’s tiny Fire Island, featured in the new rom-com film of the same name, has a long history as a haven for gay people.
Two books on historical gay hate crimes – the murder of George Duncan in Adelaide, 1972, and army officer Warwick Meale in Townsville, 1942 – aim to create positive change by revealing past injustice.
Toronto’s Gay Community Dance Committee funded lesbian and gay liberation organizing in an unkind era that made community work not only difficult, but increasingly necessary.
Camp defies easy categorisation and has come to mean many things over the span of queer history
The emotional centre of British TV series It’s a Sin is a home. But this home looks quite different to the one our leaders might imagine when they issue stay-at-home orders.
Drag Down Under airs this Saturday. It will be intriguing to see how this slick TV show — built on US histories of drag — approaches the Australian drag tradition.
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