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2 Boys, 1 Cup
2000 years old, worth £1.8 million, banned from the US, not publicly exhibited until 1999. Meet history’s most expensive piece of gay porn: The Warren Cup One side depicts a man (the active participant...
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Troye Sivan on being effeminate
“I have to get comfortable with the fact that I am kind of effeminate sometimes–or really effeminate sometimes. That I want to paint my nails. Overcoming all those stupid rules that society embeds in...
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Ezra Miller & Harry Styles turned heads at the Met Gala
The motto of this year’s Met Gala was camp and camp it was. Ezra Miller and Harry Styles fit right in as you can see below. The New York Times has an extensive slide show of many of the creative...
View ArticleLasting Marks
The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher’s Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press — but not by those in the dock. Lasting...
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Why Kink belongs at Pride
Earlier this month, just weeks before the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a Twitter user shared a since-deleted viral tweet directed at Pride goers. It contained a number of statements about...
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Alan Turing will be the face of the Bank of England’s new £50 note
The Bank of England has announced that Alan Turing’s will appear on British £50 notes starting 2021. “Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live...
View ArticleBay Gays
TV station ABC7news dug up an interesting piece of history allowing us a look at how gay people were portrayed in the media in the America of the 1970s. The documentary was made in 1976 and is called...
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Murray Hall: The politician who broke 19th Century gender rules
He was a hard-drinking, twice-married businessman and politician in 19th Century New York – but Murray Hall had a secret which was only revealed after his death. Murray Hall had a reputation for hard...
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Famous skeletons holding hands were male
A pair of hand-holding skeletons–the so-called Lovers of Modena –in a burial site in Italy have been found to be male, according to researchers at the University of Bologna. The two bodies were...
View ArticleWhen Florida had a committee to terrorise gay people
Starting in the 1950s, a Florida state committee spent years stalking, intimidating, and outing hundreds of LGBTQ people. And they got away with it. Amid a national witch hunt for communists and an...
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You’re Dead To Me: Queer history
From Molly Houses to secret diaries, the BBC’s You’re Dead To Me podcast took a a look at some real-life stories that are part of the history of the LGBT community in Britain and the United States.
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William Beckford: A queer hedonist
Few men attained greater celebrity during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries than William Beckford (1760—1844), the wealthiest man in England. With enormous wealth as his Aladdin’s...
View ArticleHistory Is Sexy: Queer gender expressions in the military
Gender can be a complicated matter to deal with, both for an individual and the society they live in. In recent years historians began to unravel the complex relationships humans always had with sex,...
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Rare piece of queer history found with a simple Google search
Researchers at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University made the experience that sometimes a small treasure can be hidden in plain sight when a simple Google search led them to a rare document credited...
View ArticleHistory Is Sexy: Queer Royalty and Gender Norms
In this episode History Is Sexy tackles a very complicated pair of questions. Which royal figures in history were queer/LGBT, and has the gender binary/heteronormativity always been that way?
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Gad Beck: Gay. Jewish. Anti-Nazi Fighter.
One of the many tales of bravery taking place during World War II is the story of Gad Beck. He was gay. He was Jewish. And he was a resistance fighter in Nazi Berlin who risked his own life to free his...
View ArticleNetflix documentary explores history of America’s biggest gay adult bookstore
The documentary Circus of Books will debut on Netflix on April 22. The film takes a look at the history of America’s largest gay adult bookstore, the Los Angeles pornemporium which shuttered and was...
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