Growing up gay in rural Potosi, Missouri during the 1960-70s, Rodney Wilson wasn't sure where he fit. "Queer people existed in the shadows," Wilson said. "That area of the world, that area of our ...

LGBT History Month 2025 is here, but the annual celebration of queer history and individuals is observed at different times ...

Faculty, staff and students are invited to a lecture and Q&A with Dylan Marron Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom. Marron will come to campus as part of the ...

In October 1977 the LGBT community throughout California was embattled. Conservative Orange County state Senator John Briggs was circulating a statewide ballot initiative that would ban homosexuals ...

The modern LGBT rights movement is largely understood to have begun 47 years ago this year with the historic Stonewall Riots. They occurred at The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Greenwich ...

Jenna Smith, a senior at Duke University, was in high school when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. During that time, she set out to learn more about queer history, so she created The LGBT History Project.

Part 1. Introduction. Introduction -- A pep talk for the faint of heart -- Part 2. Historical overview. Approaching LGBT history -- "The abominable sin" : European contact to the late nineteenth ...

In celebration of LGBT History Month, author and former elementary school teacher Jerome Pohlen has written, "Gay & Lesbian History For Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights with 21 ...

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