How lesbian authors have reinvented the imagined spaces of the U.S. South through print culture, activism, and...
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Highlighting inclusion and humanity. Introduction By Pietro Rigolo The rainbow flag was designed by a group of...
Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. We see the influence of gay contemporaries...
Looking at at how Britain’s first lesbian magazine came about and its impact on society. Introduction In...
In the 1950s, ‘coming out’ meant acknowledging sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad...
In primary texts, figures are addressed by medieval authors using both male and female pronouns interchangeably and...
Transgender individuals have worse employment outcomes, lower incomes, and higher rates of poverty. The United States Supreme...
These schools want public money. But they don’t want to serve all of the public. By Scott...
The history of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States is one of struggle, but...
I thought it was normal to “debate” the right to marry or hold a job. Now I...
A new study of nearly 500,000 individuals finds that many genes affect same-sex behavior, including newly identified...
The language of gender identity wasn’t what it is today. By Jud Esty-Kendall, Afi Yellow-Duke, and Emma...
The Supreme Court will decide in the next year whether sexual orientation and gender identity are covered...
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds....
An ancient Roman fable imagines a cinaedus, well-known for his brazen effeminacy, fighting heroically. Introduction On August...
With major dailies giving a megaphone to the police, the coverage of Stonewall is a reminder of...
It’s really only in the past three decades that we’ve come to recognize the need to understand...
The historical lessons of 1844 are abundantly clear. Recently in St. Louis, the United Methodist General Conference...
Miss Betty Cooper may not be “well known” to modern historians, but the ad claims that she...
Despite the empowerment of the LGBTI movement during the last 20 years, LGBTI people in Russia face...
One of the biggest challenges facing medieval historians is interpreting the actions of individuals at a remove...
Violent crimes and other hate incidents targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans consistently are unreported and...
Lynes was a highly sought-after commercial and fashion photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. But he had...
Bissu, or transgender priests, are one of five genders recognized by the Bugis. Reuters The Bugis of South...
Purging the identity from federal websites makes transgender people more vulnerable to discrimination. Here’s how you can...
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality....
Two 18th-century women, Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler, are famous for their romantic friendship, which was then...
Bible, about 1280–90, Bologna, Italy. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 11, fol. 248v; National...
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund found that...
Magnus Hirschfeld, on the right, sits with his partner, Tao Li, at the fourth conference of the...