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The LGBTQ Game Archive
Caper in the Castro — the earliest known LGBTQ video game — is an old fashioned murder mystery. The player controls the movements of Tracker McDyke, a lesbian private investigator who must find her...
View ArticleHistory of the Word “Gay”
The word gay has a long history in the English language, but why did gay stop meaning “happy” and start referring to same sex attractions?
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Gay Life flourished in Berlin before the Nazis snuffed it out
Tens of millions of tourists visit the German capital Berlin every year. The city is positively bursting at the seams. Not many years ago, a vast number of Berlin apartments stood empty; these days, a...
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Different from the Others
In 1919 the first known film that was sympathetic to gay people was produced. A year later, it was banned. Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern) is a German film about the relationship...
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The trans-rights activist who was decades ahead of his time
The Trump administration continues its assault on transgender rights. In July 2017, Trump sought to bar transgender people from serving in the military. Then, this past October, The New York Times...
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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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The big questions of queer history
February is LGBT+ History Month. The BBC marks it with a panel discussion in which Matt Cook, Channing Joseph, Jen Manion and Angela Steidele tackle some of the biggest themes in queer history.
View ArticleYoung, Gay & Illegal
It has been half a century since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK and times have changed. Gay 13 year old Louis sat down with gay 78 year old Percy to have a chat about the differences these...
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How two men tried to start a hate-free ‘Gay Town’
Fred Schoonmaker was the visionary; Alfred Parkinson, whom he called his husband, his most devoted disciple. The two men lived in Nevada in the mid-1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when legally...
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A short history of drag
There is nothing like watching Tandi Iman Dupree drop from the ceiling. The first notes of Bonnie Tyler’s ‘I Need A Hero’ pound through the nightclub. A muscular Superman crosses the stage,...
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New £50 note featuring queer icon Alan Turing revealed
The new £50 bearing the face of LGBTQ icon and and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has been revealed by the Bank of England. The Treasury note, which is the last British banknote to make the...
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Skyclad Saturday *5
PBY Blister Gunner (1944) by photographer Horace Bristol The naked figure in this photograph can seem incongruous, even surreal, without its historical context. During World War II, a PBY amphibian...
View ArticleLGBT+ History by the Decades: Age of Conformity
The war had just ended, and the United States was living in an age of prosperity. When prosperity leads to conformity, learn how queer people survived in an age of social scrutiny.
View ArticleLGBT+ History by the Decades: The Golden Age
Rock and roll just hit the charts, and people are in the mood to rebel. How will society react when a whole segment of the population rejects their values?
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Trans kids aren’t new: the long record of youth transitioning
In the United States Republicans seeking to restrict children’s lives claim trans youth are a ‘new phenomenon’. Historian Jules Gill-Peterson explains how medical archives prove them wrong. Republican...
View ArticleLGBT+ History by the Decades: Before Stonewall
Before the flame was the spark. This episode covers the many sparks that eventually lit the fire at the Stonewall Inn, and the climate surrounding it.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s queer life
The BBC History Extra podcast discusses what’s known about the private life and relationships of the Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci; the gaps in the historical record and the fact that sexual...
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