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Oscar Wilde: Evil or Genius?
The premise of the BBC podcast Evil Genius, is to force a panel of comedians to vote Evil or Genius in a simplistic and reductive way that both spices up the discussion and satirises social media...
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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for...
For centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical image of humanity has been proclaimed in films and novels, history books and scientific...
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Pride: From anti-police action to brand sponsored parade
San Francisco’s first LGBTQ Pride parade was almost unrecognizable by today’s standards. To pay tribute to the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City—a six-day clash between police...
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How the FBI secretly tracked gay activists in the 60s
A trove of previously buried documents tells the story of how anti-LGBTQ surveillance targeted queer people in the United States—and how those people pushed back. Astory of queer liberation is...
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The rebirth of Holland, k-pop’s Next Rising Star
In the music video for his 2019 single “Loved You Better,” the K-pop idol Holland gazes at himself in the mirror and curls his left hand into the shape of a gun. He stares at it sullenly as he brings...
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Remembering Alan Turing
Alan Turing was a war hero, a giant of computer science, and a gay man who simply wanted to be able to live freely. History should remember Turing as the innovative mathematician and codebreaker who...
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How queer people found a way to tell their own stories
Queer and trans media flourished throughout the 20th century, even as obscenity laws forced publishers underground. These self-published newsletters and magazines shared resources, built solidarity,...
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Resurfaced medieval tale has a queer plot twist
A recently resurfaced tale from 12th century Ireland is forcing many people to re-evaluate their perception of the Middle Ages as being a time of stagnation, a common misconception of the time....
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One of the first Hollywood heartthrobs was Japanese
If you think about silent-film era sex symbols, you probably conjure up a mental picture of Rudolph Valentino—even if you don’t know his name. Valentino has become synonymous with sex appeal in early...
View ArticleWhat it was like to be gay in the America of the 1980s
In the video below you can see a collection of LGBT-related news stories from the 1980s. Among the topics covered in the hour-long video are HIV/AIDS, Barney Frank, immigration equality, Ronald Reagan,...
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HBO Max wants to offer viewers a trip through the annals of LGBTQ history, guided by some of the biggest out-queer names in Hollywood. The trailer for the new series Equal (airing first October 22) was...
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Why trans activists lead the way in protest movements
Though their legacies have often been overlooked, trans Americans have been central to the country’s battles for justice, from racial equality to anti-fascism. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks was...
View ArticleBob Newhart & the masked doctor who cured the gays
The year was 1976, and America was grappling with the fact that homosexuality was no longer considered a mental illness. And who was there to explain it to them? Everyone’s favorite psychiatrist, Bob...
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Early American colonisers were gayer than you’d think
As you sit down for turkey, corn, and arguments with relatives at Thanksgiving this year, take a moment to give thanks to Thomas Morton, who founded what could be considered America’s first queer...
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What the battle over the queer age of consent has in common with today’s...
It’s been 20 years since the age of consent was finally equalised for gay and bisexual men in the UK after a bruising, years-long campaign from queer activists and a bitter, toxic debate. But is...
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Revisiting the complicated history of the age of the twink
Gay descriptors like “bear” and “twink” have been around for years, yet only recently have they truly been adopted into the mainstream, with a particular spotlight flung onto the so-called “Age of the...
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The Mollies Club: How a gay bar thrived in 18th-century Britain
Welcome to the molly house: How a gay bar not only survived but thrived in a deadly environment of 18th-century Britain… In 1709, the London journalist Ned Ward published an account of a group he...
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Polish historians hid the gay love letters of Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin, the 19th-century composer known for his Romantic-era piano pieces, is a much-revered figure in his home country of Poland. So it’s no wonder that music journalist Moritz Weber made...
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