Queer History

Taking Up Space: When the Gay Games Came to San Francisco

Frank Andre Guridy on Queer Athletic Activism and the Use of Stadiums as Sites of Political Struggle

 
By Frank Andre Guridy  July 30, 2024
Queer History

Queen Christina, Lesbian Icon? On Sweden’s Delightfully Nonconformist Monarch

By Eleanor Medhurst  June 7, 2024
Queer History

How Oscar Wilde Created a Queer, Mysterious Symbol in Green Carnations

By Tara Isabella Burton  June 27, 2023
Queer History

Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

By Amelia Possanza  May 30, 2023
Queer History

Yes, Sydney, Australia in the 1960s Was the Drag Capital of the World

By Craig Seligman  March 3, 2023
Queer History

Finding Black Queer Life Between the Lines of History

By Suzette Mayr  November 1, 2022
Queer History

What a Search for Hidden Queer History in Rural Louisiana Reveals About the Deep South

By Casey Parks  September 1, 2022
Queer History

Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

By Nona Willis Aronowitz  August 11, 2022
Queer History

Why the “Bad Gays” of History Deserve More Attention

By Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller  May 31, 2022
Queer History

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

By Grace Lavery  February 14, 2022
Queer History

Telling the Real Story Behind the AIDS Panic in a Small Florida Town

By Steven Reigns  September 20, 2021
Queer History

On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

By Rae Nudson  July 14, 2021
Queer History

How Gay Activists in 1980s NYC Rallied Police to Their Side

By Elon Green  March 15, 2021
Queer History

The Painful, Powerful Legacies of Stonewall in 2019

By Charles Kaiser  June 5, 2019

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