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Alice Park - Records of the National Woman's Party
Angela Davis in a half-length portrait by Bernard Gotfryd - crop
Bacon by Gray 257
Bessie Smith (1936) by Carl Van Vechten
Billy Strayhorn, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948 (William P. Gottlieb 08211)
Camp - Notes on Fashion at the Met - Burberry rainbow cape (73854)
Chelsea Manning on 18 May 2017
Don Lemon at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Ethel Smyth
Eva Le Gallienne (mnwp.275003, cropped restoration)
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron by Richard Westall (2)
Ivor Novello
Jane Addams - Bain News Service
Jean Cocteau b Meurisse 1923
Mademoiselle Maupin de l'Opéra (Julie d'Aubigny)
Nadar - "Hermaphrodite" (Seventh Gallica image)
Peter Tatchell - Red Wall - 8by10 - 2016-10-15
Sally Ride (1984)
Sándor Vay - Restoration
Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox

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... that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in Sappho's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym, or an invention of Sappho? (2024-05-04)
... that several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology? (2024-05-03)
... that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst, a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner? (2024-05-03)
... that the 1748 chapbook A Spy on Mother Midnight is studied for its sex scenes with cross-dressing and a dildo? (2024-05-03)
... that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare? (2024-04-28)
... that the live-action drama adaptation of Our Dining Table was filmed in the hometown of one of the lead actors? (2024-04-26)
... that Fredy Clue designed Sweden's first unisex folk costume? (2024-04-17)
... that a "pedophilic" relationship between two fictional adults led to an era of ship wars? (2024-04-16)
... that Full Personality Expression was an organization for cross-dressers that was originally called the Hose & Heels Club? (2024-04-14)
... that in just one night, thousands of books on the experiences and medical care of transgender people in Nazi Germany were burned (pictured) for being "un-German"? (2024-04-10)
... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society? (2024-03-31)
... that despite falling out with novelist Thomas Wolfe, Kenneth Raisbeck was the basis for a character in Of Time and the River? (2024-03-26)
... that despite a career writing queer literature, Chen Xue's 2019 novel Fatherless City had a "putatively straight premise"? (2024-03-22)
... that online social and "Barstool conservatives" spent their Christmas holidays arguing about whether a beer promotional calendar was "demonic"? (2024-03-17)
... that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"? (2024-03-16)
... that as a result of the medicalisation of sexuality, sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction have been used as a "penile health gauge" to measure general wellbeing? (2024-03-14)
... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly? (2024-03-13)
... that Nicki Minaj, who receives a shoutout from Ben Shapiro in his song "Facts", congratulated him when it reached number one on the iTunes chart? (2024-03-08)
... that Muhsin Hendricks of South Africa has been described as "the world's first openly gay imam"? (2024-03-03)
... that due to 19th-century French views of widespread homosexuality among Ottoman Turks, Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi was offered male prostitutes by officials on a visit to Paris? (2024-02-28)
... that New Zealand wrestler Leilani Tominiko (aka. Candy Lee) has a signature move called the Candy Crush? (2024-02-25)
... that Philipp Tanzer has been an army medic, artist, firefighter, hairdresser, massage therapist, festival organiser, political candidate and gay porn star? (2024-02-24)
... that the performers in the Thai drag show Calypso Cabaret impressed Lady Gaga with their ability to be open about their identities? (2024-02-19)
... that Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug describes their musical genre as "ouija pop"? (2024-02-18)
... that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019? (2024-02-16)
... that sales from Dieux du Stade, a nude calendar produced by the French professional rugby union club Stade Français featuring photos of its players, helped to finance the club for many years? (2024-02-14)
... that artist Tove Jansson (pictured) based the children's book character Snufkin on a political philosopher whom she had dated? (2024-02-08)
... that Claire Rousay (pictured) creates music using everyday sounds she records? (2024-02-04)
... that Minecraft YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft, once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars? (2024-02-03)
... that one academic described the introduction of femboys to Myanmar as a tactic to achieve an "ideological revolution"? (2024-01-25)

... that a pornographic screenplay about Jesus led to papal and royal condemnations, a firebombing, the writer's ban from the UK, and thousands of letters per week demanding the ban of a non-existent gay Jesus film? (2024-01-24)
... that in 2014, BBC Three cancelled a debate on being gay and Muslim featuring Asifa Lahore, a Muslim drag queen, citing security concerns at the mosque where it was filmed? (2024-01-24)
... that the musician Salute has an inclusion rider on their contracts for live performances? (2024-01-23)
... that Koh Masaki was one of the first gay pornographic film actors in Japan to openly appear in adult films without obscuring his identity? (2024-01-20)
... that the life of Gloria Meneses is celebrated with an exhibition in the Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual in Montevideo? (2024-01-18)
... that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site? (2024-01-16)
... that a letter to the American people allegedly written by Osama bin Laden has been cited as an example of online youth radicalization? (2024-01-07)
... that PragerU's hashtag #DETRANS, originally meant to promote their short film, was hijacked by Twitter users? (2023-12-28)
... that in the documentary Transition, Jordan Bryon says he finds Taliban fighters "lovely"? (2023-12-20)
... that Emelia Quinn argues that "monstrous vegans" have recurred in literature since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? (2023-12-20)
... that Jerónimo Saavedra was the first openly gay politician to serve in several high public offices in Spain? (2023-12-12)
... that Japanese actor Kouhei Higuchi prepared for his role on the television drama adaptation of My Personal Weatherman by learning from a weather forecaster? (2023-11-28)
... that Erin Swenson was the first mainstream Protestant minister known to have undergone gender transition while in ordained office? (2023-11-28)
... that Mariah Carey does not know Jennifer Lopez? (2023-11-27)
... that a favorite of Tsar Ivan the Terrible may have killed his own father to prove his loyalty to the tsar? (2023-11-12)
... that the song "Lacy" is about a girl whom Olivia Rodrigo finds "sexy" and describes as a "Bardot reincarnate"? (2023-11-11)
... that Toshiki Seto was cast in the television adaptation of Senpai, This Can't Be Love! because, according to the creator, he could express emotion through his stare? (2023-11-08)
... that when Sarah Jane Baker was released after 30 years, she was the United Kingdom's longest serving transgender prisoner? (2023-11-08)
... that Massachusetts gave the United States its first openly LGBT state legislator to be elected, as well as the first out congressperson and state attorney general? (2023-11-08)
... that Scholastic requested Maggie Tokuda-Hall remove the phrase "virulent racism" from the Author's Note in Love in the Library, a children's book about Japanese-American internment camps? (2023-09-02)
... that Shaparak Khorsandi asked for her book to be removed from the Jhalak Prize longlist, which she considered to be "a sticker for being brown"? (2023-08-24)
... that in early 2023 Angela Ferrell-Zabala became the first executive director for the US gun control advocacy organization Moms Demand Action? (2023-08-22)
... that Beyoncé paid tribute to O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed after vogueing to her music, on her official website? (2023-08-18)
... that historian Anne Balay wrote two books on oral histories from LGBT steelworkers and truck drivers? (2023-08-15)
... that Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters? (2023-08-11)
... that Gwen Stacy was depicted with a "Protect Trans Kids" poster in her room in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse? (2023-08-02)
... that Palmire Dumont, a pioneer of LGBT nightlife in "Gay Paree", was among the first members of the French Bulldog-Owners Club (her dog pictured) and met other bulldog owners in her lesbian bar? (2023-07-17)
... that Lil Uzi Vert (pictured) told the crowd at one of their concerts that they were all "going to hell"? (2023-07-16)
... that Egghead & Twinkie claims to be the first feature film crowdsourced on TikTok? (2023-07-15)
... that Precious Brady-Davis and her husband were the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate? (2023-07-13)
... that unicorn hunting is the practice by a couple, usually a man and a woman, of seeking a third partner for the relationship, usually a bisexual woman? (2023-07-12)
... that former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said that she would swim in Loch Ness naked if the SNP won more than 50 seats at the 2019 United Kingdom general election? (2023-07-07)
... that Edna Thomas portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth? (2023-07-07)
... that the Japanese manga series Minato's Laundromat originated as a story titled Wash My Heart! that was posted on Pixiv? (2023-07-03)
... that as a young adult, lesbian novelist Lee Winter disliked the poor quality of lesbian fiction, preferring autobiographies by lesbian people? (2023-06-27)
... that Arnie Roth debuted as a gay Marvel Comics character at a time when the publisher maintained a "No Gays in the Marvel Universe" policy? (2023-06-23)
... that after trans woman Dylan Mulvaney was sponsored by Bud Light, American conservatives boycotted the brand and its parent company Anheuser-Busch? (2023-06-14)
... that in 1987, Michael Denneny started Stonewall Inn Editions at St. Martin's Press, the first LGBT trade paperback imprint at a major publishing house? (2023-06-09)
... that a university student sought counseling from his pastor after attending a guest lecture on sexuality by lesbian and former novice Joanne Marrow? (2023-06-08)
... that around 1,500 anti-Jewish laws were enacted by Nazi Germany in the years leading up to the Holocaust (victims pictured)? (2023-06-05)
... that the historical-romance novel My Tender Matador includes a fictionalized version of the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet? (2023-05-29)
... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century? (2023-05-28)
... that a photograph inspired by one of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"? (2023-05-18)
... that the LGBTQ+ anthology This Arab Is Queer features 18 queer Arab writers? (2023-05-14)
... that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer? (2023-05-14)
... that Lucy Salani is considered the only known Italian transgender person to survive the Nazi concentration camps? (2023-05-13)
... that Percy Kelly hoarded his drawings and paintings until the end of his life, saying that his cottage would someday "upstage Beatrix Potter's home"? (2023-05-05)
... that Jay Versace went from poking fun at SZA's music to producing songs for her? (2023-05-05)
... that Džuvljarke written by Vera Kurtić includes interviews with members of the LGBT community in Serbia and concludes that Romani lesbian women are often "invisible"? (2023-05-01)
... that Joanna Cherry showed a printed copy of an Internet meme featuring Lily Hoshikawa during a UK parliamentary committee meeting? (2023-04-30)
... that producers of The Simpsons have spoken about the importance of its LGBT characters in representation? (2023-04-30)
... that Hot Gay Time Machine had two life-sized cut-outs of Beyoncé? (2023-04-29)
... that Mira Bellwether's husband had already read her zine, Fucking Trans Women, years before he met her? (2023-04-28)
... that the pseudonymous manga artist Junichi Yamakawa never disclosed to his editor his legal name, address, or contact information? (2023-04-28)
... that Drag Isn't Dangerous is a charitable telethon set to be hosted by numerous drag queens to oppose the Tennessee drag-ban bill? (2023-04-28)
... that Aubri Esters was among the winners of a hackathon focusing on ways to reduce drug addiction and drug-related deaths? (2023-04-25)
... that all three of Jane Severance's books for young readers include lesbian characters, including her first book, which was the first picture book to include such characters? (2023-03-28)
... that a same-sex kiss scene in the seventh episode of The Last of Us was censored in some regions? (2023-03-27)
... that Claude Vivier was inspired to compose Shiraz after hearing two blind singers in a market? (2023-03-24)
... that before getting their own office space, independent children's publisher Lollipop Power stored books "under beds, in attics, [and] under ping-pong tables"? (2023-03-23)
... that in 2006, U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir (pictured) became the first male skater to win the U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s? (2023-03-23)
... that director Kunihiko Ikuhara created the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena after becoming frustrated by his lack of creative control as a director of the anime series Sailor Moon? (2023-03-20)
... that the second game in the series The Last of Us was developed by more than 2,100 people across 14 studios? (2023-03-12)
... that Ben LaBolt is the first openly gay White House communications director? (2023-03-11)
... that Josiane Lima won Brazil's first Paralympic rowing medal? (2023-03-10)
... that Cherry Valentine hid his Romani heritage because he feared he might receive "hate or backlash"? (2023-03-10)
... that Shiroi Heya no Futari is regarded as the first work of yuri, a genre of manga and other media focused on female-female romance, despite not being the first manga to depict romance between women? (2023-03-08)
... that the writer of Poison Ivy: Thorns felt the titular DC Comics character was "tailor made for [her] interests as a nature-loving, gay makeup enthusiast"? (2023-03-08)
... that Kloe was a headliner at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2014, despite not being old enough to attend most shows there? (2023-03-01)
... that Linda Ronstadt's "Long, Long Time" saw a 4,900-percent increase in Spotify streams in the United States in the hour after the broadcast of the third episode of The Last of Us? (2023-02-27)
... that Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry was once demerited for "very disorderly humming"? (2023-02-20)
... that Grace Lavery's autobiography Please Miss discusses her transition but also the "paradigmatic concept of the penis"? (2023-02-15)
... that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake? (2023-02-14)
... that the 1980s were the "age of hole-discovery" in yaoi erotica? (2023-02-12)
... that the first issue of Allan, one of the earliest Japanese magazines focused on male–male romance for a female audience, featured a pin-up poster of David Bowie? (2023-02-01)
... that at the start of Drama Shower, Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!? (2023-01-31)
... that before Paul Goodman became known for his views on education, he wrote an autobiographical novel about a teacher's sexual relationship with his student? (2023-01-28)
... that, before same-sex unions were legally recognised in the UK, the London Partnership Register allowed nearly 1,000 couples to celebrate their relationships? (2023-01-25)
... that the cremated remains of AIDS activist Ortez Alderson were thrown onto the South Lawn of the White House in the ACT UP Ashes Action of 1992? (2023-01-22)
... that the Japanese male–male romance magazine June was originally pitched to its publisher as a "mildly pornographic magazine for women"? (2023-01-22)
... that when Australian Brihony Dawson debuted as the first non-binary host of reality TV franchise The Challenge, they decided not to imitate the "ominous" style of the U.S. host? (2023-01-22)
... that before Sarah Elmaleh voiced the player character in the video game Anthem, developed by BioWare, she voiced characters in a mod of an earlier BioWare game? (2023-01-19)
... that Japanese bookstore employees recommended Candy Color Paradox as one of the best yaoi manga titles in 2016? (2023-01-16)
... that Fucking Trans Women associates erectile dysfunction with pleasure? (2023-01-15)
... that París Galán, who introduced a style of drag performance in Bolivia, became the first-ever transgender individual to win elective office in the country? (2023-01-14)
... that an internet meme about the nonexistent film Goncharov inspired more than 500 fan fiction works about the film? (2023-01-14)
... that although it was rejected by the lesbian mainstream when it was first released, Kamikaze Hearts has since been called a milestone in queer cinema? (2023-01-13)
... that when baker Ruby Tandoh (pictured) publicly came out, she mocked critics who suggested that she had romanced a male contest judge? (2023-01-11)
... that Lady Gaga said she was in a dark state of mind when writing the song "Free Woman" but got over it after completing the song? (2023-01-09)
... that Fuccbois' crew won awards, while Fuccboi's prose received both praise and criticism? (2023-01-04)
... that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine storyline about Rosa Diaz's bisexuality was heavily influenced by the bisexuality of her portrayer? (2022-12-26)
... that American author Marilyn Gayle Hoff was honored by a Fourth of July parade float as an unsung hero? (2022-12-23)
... that Kim de l'Horizon (pictured), winner of the 2022 German Book Prize, shaved their head during the award ceremony in solidarity with those protesting in Iran? (2022-12-22)
... that the Dutch campaign OneLove (logo pictured) inspired football captains to wear rainbow armbands at the 2020 and 2022 European Championships? (2022-12-18)
... that Erick Russell is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States? (2022-11-27)
... that Jason Moore and other Wikipedia editors curated the entry about the January 6 United States Capitol attack in real time? (2022-11-15)
... that the writer of the 2022 comic book miniseries Poison Ivy, starring the eponymous Batman villain, described it as a "love story" that features "plant-based body horror"? (2022-11-11)
... that the titular monster from 2014 horror film The Babadook was later adopted as a gay icon in internet memes after being listed as an "LGBT film" by Netflix? (2022-11-07)
... that Pride Month is held in commemoration of the Stonewall riots? (2022-11-04)
... that Jordan Gray added the technical name for spider silk to her name due to the UK not having a process to change honorific from Mr to Miss? (2022-11-03)
... that the Roman emperor Hadrian was so grieved by the death of his male lover Antinous that he made him into a god and founded a city in his honour? (2022-11-01)
... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse? (2022-10-22)
... that after Billie Eilish wrote the song "Wish You Were Gay", its subject came out to her as gay? (2022-10-21)
... that the combat suit Pharah wears in Overwatch bears a strong resemblance to those featured in mecha anime? (2022-10-20)
... that in 1979, the Studio 54 nightclub started serving fruit punch because its owners were arrested? (2022-10-17)
... that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do? (2022-09-29)
... that The Last of Us Part I features three accessibility presets for those requiring hearing, motor, or visual aids? (2022-09-28)
... that in 2009, residents of Maine voted to repeal a law that would have legalized same-sex marriage? (2022-09-22)
... that Northwest High School required transgender staff members of the student newspaper to use deadnames in bylines? (2022-09-21)
... that Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, (pictured) was the father of two queens and a French regent, despite preferring his male lovers to his wives? (2022-09-10)
... that when the British government discovered that John Jarvis-Smith was not dead, they gave him a medal? (2022-09-01)
... that Hayley Kiyoko aimed for a fully LGBT cast while casting the video for her song "For the Girls"? (2022-08-27)
... that Juan José Cabezudo was a notorious gay chef and street-food seller in 19th-century Lima? (2022-08-23)
... that the 1985 manga series Tomoi contains the first depiction of HIV/AIDS in any literary medium in Japan? (2022-08-22)
... that since 2018, IKEA's stuffed toy shark Blåhaj (pictured) has become a popular Internet meme and an icon of the online transgender community? (2022-08-22)
... that PJ and Thomas were the first gay couple to host an HGTV show? (2022-08-18)
... that LGBT rights activist Kit Malone helped create the first transgender organized marching group in the Indianapolis Pride Parade's history? (2022-08-15)
... that although some casting directors found Jack Ferver difficult to believe as an 18-year-old, Ferver would later portray Little Lad in a Starburst advertisement? (2022-08-10)
... that the book Love Falls On Us, about the LGBTQ movement in Africa, was praised by author Uzodinma Iweala for "elevating the extraordinary ordinariness of L.G.B.T.Q. Africans"? (2022-07-30)
... that an episode of the children's TV show Arthur featuring a same-sex wedding was not aired on Alabama's PBS network? (2022-07-23)
... that the perceived tameness of LGBT Pride Month gave rise to Wrath Month? (2022-07-22)
... that the Indy Bag Ladies, one of the oldest AIDS fundraising organizations, is a group of activist drag queens in Indianapolis who have raised more than $1 million for AIDS patients? (2022-07-21)
... that Evgenia Debryanskaya, the lesbian activist who co-founded Russia's first gay-rights organization, was the first wife of Aleksandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin's "Rasputin"? (2022-07-21)
... that the 2020 case Henderson v. Box held that the state of Indiana must list same-sex parents on their child's birth certificate? (2022-07-20)
... that model Tyra Banks produces Generation Drag, a TV series which follows five children preparing for a drag show? (2022-07-20)
... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"? (2022-07-19)
... that roughly 15,000 copies of the anonymously published essay "Queers Read This" were distributed at the June 1990 New York Gay Pride Parade? (2022-07-18)
... that Ursula Sillge's attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in East Germany led to the banning of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's venue for LGBT meetings? (2022-07-16)
... that James T. Sears called the novels The White Paper (1928), Street of Stairs (1968), and Boychick (1971), three "pederastic erotic classics"? (2022-07-15)
... that American drag queen James Herndon donated funds and resources into black and LGBTQ+ communities in Lexington, Kentucky? (2022-07-10)
... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan? (2022-07-10)
... that about 200 San Francisco police officers led a 1989 riot through a gay neighborhood in reaction to a peaceful protest? (2022-07-08)
... that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens? (2022-07-06)
... that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented sensuality and eroticism of his work? (2022-07-02)
... that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem, one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was awarded for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion? (2022-07-01)
... that Pat Gozemba married her wife while researching a book about the history of the struggle for equal marriage in Massachusetts? (2022-07-01)
... that a journalist dubbed Olena Shevchenko (pictured) as "probably the most famous lesbian in Ukraine"? (2022-06-30)
... that Tzedi Tzarfati directed a production of Annie decades after becoming enamored with its song "Tomorrow"? (2022-06-05)
... that Cardiff-based classicist Kathleen Freeman also wrote detective fiction, publishing under four separate pseudonyms? (2022-05-23)
... that when asked about the secret to her longevity, 91-year-old Shatzi Weisberger said she smokes marijuana every night? (2022-05-21)
... that Yuki Fumino's relationships with hearing-impaired friends and acquaintances inspired her to create I Hear the Sunspot? (2022-05-20)
... that the black Christian Siriano gown worn by actor Billy Porter was said to have "won" the 91st Academy Awards? (2022-05-14)
... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox (pictured) proposed to her husband on the day she met him? (2022-05-11)
... that Johannes zu Eltz, who decided to become a Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church? (2022-05-06)
... that the now-destroyed statue of Alexander Wood was the first LGBT monument in Canada? (2022-04-24)
... that in response to Disney's support for Florida's House Bill 1557, also known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, Pixar employees stated that Disney removes LGBT references from the studio's films? (2022-04-21)
... that manga artist Keiko Takemiya intentionally submitted her manga Sanrūmu Nite immediately before its publication deadline to avoid it being edited? (2022-04-18)
... that Mary Renault was encouraged by J. R. R. Tolkien to write a novel set in medieval times, but she burned the manuscript because she felt it lacked authenticity? (2022-04-17)
... that in 2013, McNally v R upheld a conviction for sexual assault via gender deception? (2022-04-15)
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested? (2022-04-13)
... that the House of Brag organized a "Monstrous Pride" event to clash with London's pride parade? (2022-04-05)
... that Victoria Brownworth was the first open lesbian to write a column in a daily newspaper in the United States? (2022-04-03)
... that Macy Rodman's 2021 album Unbelievable Animals was described as combining "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots" and "a dash of Ray of Light–esque experimental pop"? (2022-03-25)
... that Elizabeth Pierce Blegen (pictured) was one of the "Quartet" of archaeologists who lived and worked together in Greece as a family, along with Ida Hill, Carl Blegen, and Bert Hodge Hill? (2022-03-23)
... that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world? (2022-03-22)
... that Rut Castillo was the only out LGBTQ rhythmic gymnast at the 2020 Olympics? (2022-03-19)
... that British singer Hope Tala turned down an opportunity to pursue a master's degree at the University of Cambridge in favour of pursuing a career in music? (2022-03-17)
... that Dianna Agron auditioned for Glee using a high voice because she interpreted her character as a perfectionist who would not want a deep voice, something for which Agron had been teased at school? (2022-03-12)
... that the 1976 manga series Kaze to Ki no Uta is credited with widely popularizing the male–male romance genre? (2022-03-10)
... that in 2007, Jeremiah Moss started Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, a blog that functions as a "digital obituary column" for old New York City small businesses lost to gentrification? (2022-03-09)
... that a spokesperson for the American Library Association told ABC News in late 2021 that she had "never seen such a widespread effort to remove books on racial and gender diversity"? (2022-03-07)
... that the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany (pictured) is considered to be the most severe persecution of LGBT people in history? (2022-02-23)
... that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry? (2022-02-21)
... that pioneering Daily News camerawoman Evelyn Straus had her clothes custom-made to carry her film and flashbulbs? (2022-02-20)
... that although Ovad Efrat was a commando in the Israel Defense Forces, his son Daniel Efrat was rejected after conscription? (2022-02-17)
... that the 1992 documentary film Daddy and the Muscle Academy, which focuses on the life of gay erotic artist Tom of Finland, has been broadcast on Finnish television multiple times? (2022-02-08)
... that there is disagreement about whether Lots of Mommies, in which a girl is raised by four mothers, should be considered to be an LGBTQ picture book? (2022-02-05)
... that a new species of ant was named to honor artist Jeremy Ayers and the non-binary community? (2022-01-31)
... that in Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition? (2022-01-28)
... that Chappell Roan was signed to Atlantic Records at 17 years old? (2022-01-20)
... that 120 years after the founding of the world's first homosexual organization in 1897, a monument near its former headquarters (pictured) was unveiled in Berlin? (2022-01-17)
... that as a result of the Röhm scandal, a Nazi became the world's first openly gay politician in 1932? (2022-01-16)
... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination? (2022-01-15)
... that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement? (2022-01-14)
... that two nude bathers in Arnold Comes of Age were "nearly obliterated"? (2022-01-13)
... that When Harry Met Santa, an advert for Posten Norge featuring Santa kissing a man, commemorated 50 years since the repeal of Norway's anti-gay laws? (2022-01-07)
... that lesbians in Nazi Germany, unlike gay men, did not face systematic persecution? (2022-01-05)
... that a 1999 legal case guaranteed the right of transgender people in England and Wales to access gender reassignment surgery? (2022-01-03)
... that besides their usual pop fare, the Glee cast sang hymns in traditional arrangements on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album? (2021-12-24)
... that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records? (2021-12-17)
... that Dan Finnerty was cast in Single All the Way so that he could cross the Canada–U.S. border and join his wife, Kathy Najimy, on the set of the film? (2021-12-17)
... that the Greenlandic novel Homo Sapienne was written in only one month? (2021-12-01)
... that Witi Ihimaera (pictured) decided to become a writer after reading a short story that was "so poisonous" he threw the book out of the window? (2021-11-24)
... that the title of Something That May Shock and Discredit You, a memoir by Daniel M. Lavery that explores themes including gender transition, is taken from a scene in The Simpsons? (2021-11-18)
... that Rise Bar's management spent more than US$110,000 soundproofing the space, which holds just 74 patrons? (2021-11-13)
... that Lorenza Böttner, a mouth and foot painter, had both of her arms amputated following an electrocution? (2021-11-09)
... that United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (pictured) wrote an essay in 2000 on Bernie Sanders, his future competitor in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries? (2021-10-27)
... that the Frente de Liberación Homosexual viewed all forms of oppression as interconnected, and believed that homosexuality was subversive because it challenged patriarchy? (2021-10-26)
... that in the 2017 case Bayev and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian laws against "promotion of homosexuality" violate freedom of speech? (2021-10-22)
... that in the 2021 case Fedotova and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that lack of legal recognition for same-sex couples violated human rights? (2021-10-20)
... that the Proseminar in Homophile Studies, one of the first university courses about homosexuality, was held only once? (2021-10-09)
... that Aung Myo Min, Union Minister of Human Rights for the National Unity Government of Myanmar, is the country's first openly LGBT minister? (2021-10-03)
... that according to Christopher Bollen, much of his 2020 novel A Beautiful Crime was written in a 17th-century monastery? (2021-09-25)
... that Brookside character Margaret Clemence was featured in a female same-sex kiss that was rebroadcast during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics? (2021-09-22)
... that Wayward Son was described as "a delirious candy-coated romp"? (2021-09-14)
... that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian? (2021-08-22)
... that the Q contains a drawing of "a buff Ned Flanders from The Simpsons with protruding nipples"? (2021-08-21)
... that Quinn (pictured) became the first out, transgender, non-binary athlete to medal at the Summer Olympic Games when they won gold with the Canada national soccer team? (2021-08-21)
... that residents at the queer community known as the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch carry firearms and wear body armor while tending to their alpacas due to threats from right-wing militias? (2021-08-14)
... that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Last Crusade" introduces lesbian characters? (2021-08-13)
... that Luke Prokop, an ice hockey prospect, is the first player under contract with a National Hockey League team to come out as gay? (2021-08-12)
... that despite an attempted "extermination" of homosexuals in the 1960s and 1970s, the LGBT community in Argentina (parade pictured) is now the most accepted in Latin America? (2021-08-02)
... that Lee Erwin spent six years scoring every one of Buster Keaton's silent features? (2021-07-30)
... that the book Deal With It! was written by the creators of Gurl.com? (2021-07-30)
... that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest? (2021-07-26)
... that the cadet scandal of 1942 resulted in a widespread persecution of gay men in Buenos Aires? (2021-07-24)
... that New Zealand world-champion rower Emma Twigg (pictured) came out of retirement to compete in her fourth Olympic Games today? (2021-07-23)
... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email? (2021-07-22)
... that Kake has been described as "a sort of Johnny Appleseed ... spreading the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex"? (2021-07-18)
... that Homobiles has been called "Uber for drag queens"? (2021-07-17)
... that many Broadway stars went to Therapy on Monday nights? (2021-07-12)
... that photographing Elliot Page for the cover of Time "really meant the world" to Canadian photographer Wynne Neilly? (2021-07-11)
... that June Fernández wrote "I Wanted Sex But Not Like That"? (2021-07-11)
... that the fan disc of the visual novel Kichiku Megane includes a salacious typing game? (2021-07-09)
... that each chapter of the Japanese novel Kanojo ga Suki na Mono wa Homo de Atte Boku de wa Nai is themed after a song by Queen? (2021-07-07)
... that Robert Jones wrote the first book about figure skating in 1772? (2021-07-06)
... that the Latin American travesti gender identity has been considered to be a third gender, akin to the hijras of India and the muxe of Mexico? (2021-07-05)
... that William E. Woods took three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in 1990, beginning a series of events that would lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States? (2021-06-30)
... that by being the first travesti to become a national celebrity, entertainer Cris Miró increased the visibility of the transgender community in Argentine society during the 1990s? (2021-06-29)
... that some men purposely have sex in order to become infected with HIV? (2021-06-27)
... that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer? (2021-06-26)
... that Cal Anderson was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature? (2021-06-21)
... that Argentine trans woman Mariela Muñoz raised 23 children and worked as a tarot reader to support them? (2021-06-17)
... that actor Arthur Blake was famous for his female impersonations of Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, and Eleanor Roosevelt? (2021-06-16)
... that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann, most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill? (2021-06-15)
... that Headroom was a bar that operated only during the COVID-19 pandemic? (2021-06-13)
... that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her manga series The Rose of Versailles? (2021-06-12)
... that Kai Cheng Thom wrote Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars not as a memoir to educate cisgender people about transgender issues, but as the book she had wanted to read as a teenager? (2021-06-10)
... that Hercules hosted a live-streamed talk show during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland? (2021-06-06)
... that there are more than thirty Eagles around the world? (2021-05-31)
... that the creators of the Indian web series His Storyy changed the ending because of prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country? (2021-05-16)
... that A Question of Love was widely regarded as a bold film for portraying homosexuality, a rare topic for television dramas in 1978? (2021-05-15)
... that Les McKeown worked at a paper mill before becoming the frontman of the Bay City Rollers? (2021-05-11)
... that the BBC described Chi Chi DeVayne's lip sync to "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" as "iconic in Drag Race history"? (2021-04-29)
... that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail? (2021-04-28)
... that the inspiration for the 1998 novel The Vintner's Luck came to author Elizabeth Knox in a fever dream caused by pneumonia? (2021-04-27)
... that Harry Daley, who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1925, was the first openly gay British police officer? (2021-04-26)
... that Debra Humphris, the vice chancellor of the University of Brighton, advocated converting 18th-century army barracks into student residences? (2021-04-25)
... that San Francisco's "KYOU Radio" was the first terrestrial radio station to broadcast a program format consisting of podcasts? (2021-04-24)
... that Kameron Michaels has been described as a "lip sync assassin"? (2021-04-22)
... that in the music video for "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)", Lil Nas X gives Satan a lap dance? (2021-04-14)
... that genderless fashion in Japan was inspired by K-pop groups, visual kei, and 1980s–1990s American fashion? (2021-04-11)
... that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir about masculinity? (2021-04-09)
... that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that his book The Great Gatsby was a failure in comparison to Willa Cather's My Ántonia? (2021-04-08)
... that the series finale of Schitt's Creek was written in three hours by co-creator Daniel Levy? (2021-04-03)
... that people thought Boxers would gentrify Washington Heights? (2021-04-03)
... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters? (2021-03-29)
... that when commenting on her decision to depict Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in her novel The Song of Achilles, author Madeline Miller remarked: "I stole it from Plato"? (2021-03-22)
... that in the film Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino improvised the "Attica! Attica!" scene following the suggestion of an assistant director? (2021-03-21)
... that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax? (2021-03-18)
... that a 1994 manga series by artist Gengoroh Tagame (pictured) was the first gay comic in Japan to turn a profit? (2021-03-11)
... that when the manga series Antique Bakery was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2001, a character who was gay in the source material was changed to having a fear of women? (2021-02-23)
... that the picture book Maiden & Princess, in which a maiden and princess fall in love, shares a fictional universe with Prince & Knight, in which a prince and male knight do the same? (2021-02-14)
... that New York New York is noted as among the first yaoi manga series to depict social realism in its treatment of gay identity? (2021-02-08)
... that the music video for Harry Styles's song "Lights Up" was interpreted as a "bisexual anthem" by critics and viewers due to it being released on National Coming Out Day? (2021-02-07)
... that Barbara Danish wrote The Dragon and the Doctor in 20 minutes? (2021-02-05)
... that Gore Vidal's novel Live from Golgotha has been called a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity"? (2021-02-03)
... that the Japanese television drama Ossan's Love is credited with popularizing the boys' love genre for a general audience outside of anime and manga fans? (2021-01-25)
... that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang? (2021-01-23)
... that It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School was the first film to provide educators with information on how to prevent discrimination against gay people? (2021-01-14)
... that "Macorina", the first erotic song dedicated to one woman by another, became a "lesbian hymn"? (2021-01-12)
... that while it is now considered a classic work of girls' comics, the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response? (2021-01-10)
... that Industry faces Therapy? (2021-01-10)
... that DTM is the largest gay club in Northern Europe? (2021-01-07)
... that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper? (2020-12-30)
... that cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen's graphic novel The Magic Fish is inspired by his experience as a child of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States? (2020-12-23)
... that The Girls in 3-B (cover pictured) was one of the first pulp-fiction novels to give a lesbian a happy ending? (2020-12-11)
... that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up? (2020-12-08)
... that the themes of violence in The Last of Us Part II were inspired by Neil Druckmann's (pictured) memories of watching footage of the 2000 Ramallah lynching? (2020-12-06)
... that Arsenal footballer Vivianne Miedema (pictured) is the all-time leading scorer in the FA Women's Super League and has scored more goals at the international level than any other Dutch player? (2020-12-05)
... that Mauree Turner is the first publicly non-binary individual elected to a U.S. state legislature? (2020-11-30)
... that Leda Valladares produced a "Musical Map of Argentina" to document her country's folk music traditions? (2020-11-26)
... that Women's Barracks (cover pictured), regarded as a classic of lesbian pulp fiction, was banned in Canada and became the first paperback-original bestseller in the United States? (2020-11-24)
... that Giovanni's Room both influenced and appears in the 2020 novel Swimming in the Dark, a gay love story set in the last years of the Polish People's Republic? (2020-11-23)
... that Victor Jory's first major screen role as a lecherous landlord in the 1933 film Sailor's Luck was praised as "deliciously slimy" and "insanely funny"? (2020-11-22)
... that the Polish public-television film Invasion "depicted LGBT rights activists as a foreign-backed threat to Polish children, religion, values, and the very biological continuation of the nation"? (2020-11-20)
... that the unveiling of Michelle Obama’s official portrait surprised Michelle Smith with the news that a gown from her collection had been chosen for the sitting? (2020-11-18)
... that Anna Hájková says her research into LGBT people and the Holocaust "shows a more complex, more human, and more real society beyond monsters and saints"? (2020-11-18)
... that Georgies is known as "the gay Cheers"? (2020-11-14)
... that Marla Berkowitz considers herself a Sumain, meaning someone who communicates using their hands? (2020-11-09)
... that Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is the first boys' love series published in English by Square Enix? (2020-11-08)
... that Nicholas Wilder said that being diagnosed with AIDS was just another "adventure"? (2020-11-04)
... that the New York City gay bar Metropolitan occupies a site formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery? (2020-10-31)
... that footage from the 1995 documentary film BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism was played for a U.S. congressional committee during its hearings on the National Endowment for the Arts? (2020-10-31)
... that 47 people, including bystanders and an amateur reporter, were arrested in Warsaw at a protest against the detention of LGBT activist Margot in August 2020? (2020-10-30)
... that the children's picture book Julián is a Mermaid was initially going to be about drag balls, until the author learned about the meaning of mermaids to transgender people? (2020-10-26)
... that If You Could Be Mine was the first novel to win first prize in two different categories in the same year from the Publishing Triangle? (2020-10-24)
... that the Inuit identity of sipiniq referred to individuals who were believed to have changed their physical sex at the moment of birth, but were socialized as members of their original gender? (2020-10-19)
... that the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival celebrates LGBTQ culture with Wigstock events for drag queens, a bear fest, athletic events, and an art festival? (2020-10-18)
... that reprinted editions of the 1989 manga series Okama Report contain a postscript from an LGBT-rights group noting that the series contains exaggerated and inaccurate depictions of LGBT people? (2020-10-11)
... that Len Lanzi was legally fired by the Boy Scouts of America after coming out as gay? (2020-09-20)
... that though Calvin Royal III did not start formal dance training until he was 14, he went on to become a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre? (2020-09-20)
... that on the single "Bra Off" from Natalie Lauren's album Handle with Care, Lauren asserts that women should not be subject to insult, assault, or sexism when they do not wear a bra? (2020-09-19)
... that Hurricane Sandy blew the roof off Paradise? (2020-09-18)
... that two Molotov cocktails have set Feathers on fire? (2020-09-18)
... that the founder of the pornography zine S.T.H. once joked that it was "the only gay-sex magazine funded by the U.S. government"? (2020-09-13)
... that the Polish activist Bartosz Staszewski created a series of photographs of LGBT people who live in "LGBT-free zones"? (2020-09-12)
... that Japanese essayist Mineko Nomachi's 2006 book I'm Queer But I'm An Office Lady details her experience as a transgender woman in a pink-collar job? (2020-09-11)
... that a print of Badnam Basti, often described as India's first gay film, was discovered in 2019 after having been lost for 40 years? (2020-09-08)
... that the anti-gender movement claimed that the proposed 2016 Colombian peace agreement was "an instrument to impose gender ideology"? (2020-09-05)
... that Argentinian LGBT-rights activist Carlos Jáuregui had a station named after him on the Buenos Aires Underground? (2020-09-02)
... that Lady Red Couture, known as "the largest live-singing drag queen", stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) in heels? (2020-08-25)
... that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner's body was turned into "medicinal" grease? (2020-08-21)
... that Jarosław Kaczyński, an adviser to the prime minister of Poland, claimed that equality marches (example pictured) are "a real threat to ... the Polish state"? (2020-08-19)
... that indie rock band Walk the Moon worked with AT&T and the Deaf Professional Arts Network to create an American Sign Language video for "Different Colors"? (2020-08-16)
... that a short film made by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann at university was screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest? (2020-08-09)
... that the LGBT Centre Mongolia was legally registered in 2009, after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"? (2020-08-06)
... that two versions of each episode of The Titan's Bride are produced: a version that airs on broadcast television, and an online-only "premium edition" featuring explicit content? (2020-08-04)
... that critics called for a boycott of transgender filmmaker Rhys Ernst's film Adam for perceived transphobia? (2020-07-27)
... that the Russian group Occupy Pedophilia filmed themselves committing more than a hundred anti-gay attacks between 2012 and 2014? (2020-07-27)
... that Die BIF (cover pictured) was the world's first lesbian magazine where only women were in charge? (2020-07-26)
... that in the 1950s, Slovene transgender lawyer and writer Ljuba Prenner used the introduction: "I am Dr. Ljuba Prenner, neither man nor woman"? (2020-07-23)
... that Real Life, Brandon Taylor's debut novel, is an American campus novel about a gay, black doctoral student in a mostly white PhD program? (2020-07-22)
... that the 1994 film Fresh Kill is noted for its influence on hacker subculture, with a 1995 article about the film containing one of the first recorded uses of the term "hacktivism"? (2020-07-20)
... that "Oye Mujer", a song certified 14× Multi-Platinum (Latin) in the US, was composed by Mexican musician Raymix while he was participating in a NASA educative internship? (2020-07-19)
... that a same-sex kiss, broadcast in January 2020, between the Casualty characters Marty Kirkby and Jack Ward received 111 complaints? (2020-07-19)
... that the picture book Orca's Song has received both praise for its depiction of a lesbian relationship and criticism for how it adapted a First Nations story? (2020-07-17)
... that Fred Sargeant was one of the gay rights activists who proposed the first Christopher Street Liberation Day—now the NYC Pride March—to commemorate the Stonewall riots? (2020-07-16)
... that author and performance artist Junauda Petrus originally wanted to be an astronaut, but is now a "pleasure activist"? (2020-07-15)
... that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor? (2020-07-14)
... that the languorous voice of television character Paulina de la Mora is seen as a socioeconomic commentary on the Mexican stereotype of high-class young women? (2020-07-14)
... that Alan Cumming started a nightclub in his dressing room? (2020-07-04)
... that Craig Hall, the first African American in New York City Ballet to dance the title role in Apollo, went on to teach the role to Taylor Stanley, another dancer of color? (2020-07-01)
... that Danielle Lessovitz found respite in New York's ball culture after her father's suicide, later setting her first feature film, Port Authority, within it? (2020-06-25)
... that you can't take pictures inside The Cock? (2020-06-24)
... that Barracuda is home to the longest-running bar show in New York City, which may have inspired RuPaul's Drag Race? (2020-06-19)
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, United Nations secretary-general António Guterres called for a global domestic violence "ceasefire"? (2020-06-15)
... that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice, "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"? (2020-06-09)
... that production on the first season of The House of Flowers was shut down twice—after an earthquake injured one of the leads, and when a store objected to homosexual content being filmed there? (2020-06-07)
... that the Canadian film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing was the second production screened at 1987 film festivals to have a title taken from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? (2020-06-05)
... that the Lincoln Legion of Lesbians, a lesbian separatist collective in Nebraska, tried to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in 1980? (2020-06-02)
... that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality? (2020-06-01)
... that interior designer Valerian Rybar's dining room was lined with 400 fake books with titles about episodes in his life, including International Boredom, allegedly about his ex-wife? (2020-05-28)
... that the developer of Hardcoded wanted to create a game that would appeal to cisgender people with a futanari fetish? (2020-05-24)
... that Leeds Civic Trust has created a trail of rainbow plaques (example pictured) to commemorate individuals, significant places, and events which have contributed to the LGBT+ history of Leeds? (2020-05-21)
... that the book The Pink Swastika has been described as a product of American culture wars? (2020-05-18)
... that after not having played Australian rules football competitively since she was 13, Erin Phillips won the inaugural AFL Women's best and fairest award in 2017 in her first season back at age 31? (2020-05-08)
... that British police officer Suzette Davenport was responsible for crime in Staffordshire and intelligence in the West Midlands? (2020-05-07)
... that neuroscientist J. David Jentsch's car was firebombed by animal-rights activists? (2020-05-06)
... that at the age of seventeen, Tiger King subject Carole Baskin used llamas for a lawn-trimming business? (2020-04-29)
... that Mariko Tamaki wrote Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me in part because she had "always liked the idea of an ex-ex-girlfriend story"? (2020-04-28)
... that American performing artist Nashom Wooden starred in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo with drag queen RuPaul? (2020-04-22)
... that 500 Queer Scientists are informally partnered with 500 Women Scientists? (2020-04-22)
... that Second World War fascist Susan Sweney (pictured) was shipwrecked so often that she described herself as "many times drowned"? (2020-04-20)
... that Abel Azcona is known as the "enfant terrible" of Spanish contemporary art? (2020-04-03)
... that Turing wrote Prof: Alan Turing Decoded sixty years after his death? (2020-04-01)
... that Edgar Wright, director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, thinks that the film is different from other comedies because it has "a lot of funny women in it"? (2020-03-24)
... that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"? (2020-03-14)
... that Asumiko Nakamura, the author of the manga series Classmates, sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"? (2020-03-02)
... that William Dorsey Swann was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community's right to gather? (2020-02-20)
... that Dua Saleh's debut single "First Take" was recorded in a single take? (2020-02-19)
... that after examining serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga's mobile phone, police discovered more than three terabytes of digital video evidence of his assaults? (2020-02-13)
... that Jen Wang wrote The Prince and the Dressmaker in part because she wanted to tell the story of a superhero who could create clothes that transformed those who wore them? (2020-02-10)
... that Gai Mizuki and Takeshi Matsu are among the artists featured in Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, the first English-language anthology of gay manga? (2020-02-10)
... that drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have hosted the entertainment series UNHhhh, The Trixie & Katya Show, and I Like to Watch? (2020-02-05)
... that the short story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter", intended to subvert a transphobic Internet meme, was retracted after accusations of transphobia? (2020-02-04)
... that artist and illustrator Rune Naito, credited with pioneering the culture and aesthetic of kawaii, also contributed erotic illustrations to the gay men's magazine Barazoku? (2020-02-03)
... that BECAUSE is the longest-running and largest conference for the bisexual community in the United States? (2020-01-26)
... that Dehenna Davison is Bishop Auckland's first Conservative member of Parliament since the constituency's creation in 1885? (2020-01-18)
... that gay pornographic film actor and director Erik Rhodes was posthumously outed as HIV-positive in his New York Times obituary? (2020-01-16)
... that Honey Davenport reigned over Paradise before appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race? (2020-01-08)
... that in a 1967 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of an alien for being homosexual? (2020-01-05)
... that the success of the 1978 film The Other Side of Aspen led to increased production of feature film–length works across the gay pornography industry? (2020-01-03)
... that the manga series Our Colors was inspired by author Gengoroh Tagame's desire to create a story about gay characters that was not centrally focused on romance or sex? (2020-01-02)
... that Miley Cyrus gained over 2.3 million likes on the video-sharing platform TikTok when she danced and lip-synced with Cody Simpson to "Stupid" by Ashnikko? (2019-12-31)
... that the Mexican Netflix series The House of Flowers has been compared to such disparate films as Sharknado and the Oscar-winning All About My Mother? (2019-12-26)
... that two-spirit artist Storme Webber has used various media to retell her family's experience at The Casino, one of the oldest gay bars on the West Coast? (2019-12-26)
... that Tom Chase has described himself as "the Wally Cleaver of porn"? (2019-12-20)
... that the television series The Bold Type is inspired by the life and career of former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles? (2019-12-12)
... that there was a campaign to give Captain America a boyfriend? (2019-12-08)
... that Ben Kimura was among the first gay artists in Japan to achieve crossover success with a female audience in yaoi publications? (2019-12-08)
... that Kodama Naoko, creator of I Married My Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up, called the yuri manga series her first "light" work "in a long time"? (2019-12-05)
... that public health historian Elizabeth Fee wrote on topics as varied as the history of HIV/AIDS, the racialized treatment of syphilis, bioterrorism, and the history of the toothbrush? (2019-12-03)
... that string quartet Well-Strung has performed "Chelsea's Mom", a reimagining of "Stacy's Mom", for Hillary Clinton? (2019-12-01)
... that in 2006, David Lehman said that poet John Ashbery had received more major honors and awards than any other living American writer? (2019-11-20)
... that Akira the Hustler was a member of the Biters, a performance art group whose members were both artists and sex workers? (2019-11-20)
... that more than 100 interviews were conducted for the 2019 documentary Queer Japan? (2019-11-17)
... that the first chapter of Go For It, Nakamura! was commissioned to fill a gap of empty pages in the manga magazine in which it was published? (2019-11-05)
... that Mai Khôi (pictured), an outspoken singer and political dissident known as the "Lady Gaga of Vietnam", received a Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2018? (2019-10-25)
... that Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender? (2019-10-23)
... that the grand prize of the Miss'd America pageant was once a Burger King crown and a bouquet of dead roses? (2019-10-22)
... that the 1977 fantasy novel The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions was originally planned as a children's book? (2019-10-20)
... that 19th-century Scottish heiress and philanthropist Margaret Macpherson Grant died, aged 42, shortly after her female partner had abandoned her to marry a man? (2019-10-16)
... that Jimmy Sham, convener of Civil Human Rights Front, helped organize several protest marches against the Hong Kong government's proposed extradition amendment bill? (2019-10-10)
... that New York City Inferno, a 1978 gay pornography film, features a licensed soundtrack by the Village People? (2019-10-05)
... that before he wrote Areyo Hoshikuzu, a manga about demobilized soldiers in occupied Japan, series creator Sansuke Yamada was best known as a gay manga artist? (2019-09-30)
... that What Did You Eat Yesterday? was one of the first pieces of mainstream Japanese media to substantially depict a cohabiting gay male couple? (2019-09-20)
... that 19-year-old mxmtoon, who records lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album? (2019-09-15)
... that as of August 2019, around thirty LGBT-free zones have been declared in Poland, including four south-eastern voivodeships (depicted on map)? (2019-09-11)
... that comic books by Magdalene Visaggio have been nominated for two Eisner Awards and three GLAAD Media Awards? (2019-09-09)
... that Venezuelan director Patricia Ortega (pictured) has drawn strength from her film Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals? (2019-09-08)
... that in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, the player character Caveira's "Silent Step" ability featured a game-breaking bug? (2019-09-07)
... that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill introduced in 2019 by the Indian parliament has been met with protests and criticism by the queer community? (2019-08-31)
... that there has been a boom in LGBT+ cinema produced in Latin America, in contrast to its traditionally religious and machismo culture? (2019-08-27)
... that Queens at Heart, which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film? (2019-08-16)
... that following the release of "You Need to Calm Down", GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations? (2019-08-08)
... that some LGBTQ activists have opposed the use of the term "lesbian erasure", because it has sometimes been used in opposition to transgender rights? (2019-07-28)
... that Canadian photographic artist JJ Levine is known for portraits in which the same model depicts both the male and female members of a couple? (2019-07-24)
... that the Irish musician Gregory Gray, who started his career in a boy band, became the cult indie musician Mary Cigarettes? (2019-07-15)
... that after Christian bakers refused to decorate a cake in support of gay marriage, the UK Supreme Court ruled that no one could be forced to promote a message with which they disagree? (2019-06-25)
... that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on Mars? (2019-06-14)
... that Lydia Lavelle is the first openly lesbian mayor in the US state of North Carolina? (2019-06-09)
... that the Killing Eve episode "Don't I Know You?" was generally praised for including diverse LGBT+ characters, but also criticised for how one was killed? (2019-06-04)
... that Nancy Pelosi (pictured) is the only woman to have served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the first former Speaker to return to the post since 1955? (2019-06-02)
... that Satya Rhodes-Conway is the first openly gay politician to serve as Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin? (2019-05-09)
... that Given will be the first yaoi anime series to be broadcast on Noitamina, Fuji TV's anime programming block? (2019-05-07)
... that the style of contemporary art known colloquially as bara belongs to a history of homosexuality in Japanese visual art dating back to shunga of the Edo period? (2019-04-28)
... that a columnist for the British Internet magazine Spiked created the fictional Twitter user Titania McGrath in order to mock contemporary "woke culture"? (2019-04-19)
... that Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, the first queer film festival in North Africa, does not disclose its location due to security concerns? (2019-04-11)
... that Cole Porter's nickname for his romantic partner Nelson Barclift was "cute little nose"? (2019-04-05)
... that a gay former British prince died fighting on the side of Nazi Germany despite loathing Hitler and the Nazi Party? (2019-03-21)
... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament? (2019-03-08)
... that for Vida, Tanya Saracho assembled an all-Latinx, "heavily queer" writers' room and a directorial team who are all Latinx or women of color? (2019-03-08)
... that Australian actress April Rose Pengilly had not yet appeared on-screen as her Neighbours character Chloe Brennan when she was longlisted for a Logie Award? (2019-03-08)
... that real-life X-ray technician Paul Bateson, convicted of murder 40 years ago today, played the X-ray technician in The Exorcist's cerebral angiogram scene? (2019-03-05)
... that a short story about a child raised without a gender served as an inspiration for a 1975 scientific experiment? (2019-02-25)
... that some sources believe Adele Spitzeder (pictured) created the first documented Ponzi scheme in 1869? (2019-02-15)
... that the 2005 pop-rock/dance album Rollercoaster, by former American Idol finalist Jim Verraros, was inspired by the music of George Michael and Green Day? (2019-01-25)
... that the writer of the play Why We Have a Body was inspired by Harriet the Spy, whom she viewed as the first lesbian she had ever encountered? (2019-01-11)
... that when creating the television drama Butterfly, the playwright Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children transition in order to be "trendy"? (2019-01-01)
... that artist Go Mishima selected his pen name as a tribute to his friend, the writer Yukio Mishima? (2018-12-19)
... that the gay manga artist Jiraiya has been called "kind of a Tom of Finland for the Asian market"? (2018-12-18)
... that Erin Zwiener ran for the Texas House of Representatives after her incumbent representative blocked her on Facebook? (2018-12-14)
... that US Representative-elect Sharice Davids is a former mixed martial arts fighter? (2018-12-10)
... that the publisher of the first picture book with lesbian characters wanted to change the names of Megan and Shannon, lest readers believe that "only women with Irish heritage were lesbians"? (2018-12-05)
... that an obscenity conviction for screening Kenneth Anger's Fireworks was reversed by the Supreme Court of California? (2018-11-18)
... that Adrienne Maree Brown writes for Bitch? (2018-09-30)
... that a line of T-shirts produced by Massive Goods featuring art by Gengoroh Tagame became popular in the LGBTQ hip-hop scene? (2018-09-13)
... that Fredy Hirsch saved the lives of children at Auschwitz by impressing SS guards, even though he was Jewish and openly gay? (2018-09-11)
... that despite homosexuality being punishable by death, Iranian LGBT activists celebrate IranPride Day (logo pictured) by secretly photographing themselves holding rainbow flags in Tehran and other cities? (2018-09-09)
... that in 1394, John "Eleanor" Rykener was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both friars and nuns? (2018-08-16)
... that the YouTube channel ContraPoints releases humorous, left-leaning educational videos responding to the arguments of the growing community of right-wing YouTubers? (2018-08-07)
... that New Jersey musician 070 Shake was featured in a Vogue essay on rising queer stars in rap music? (2018-07-04)
... that Princess Vera Gedroits (pictured)—good author but indifferent poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian military surgeon who pioneered battlefield laparotomy? (2018-06-30)
... that funding for Celia Brackenridge's research into child protection in football was ended because the sport "was not ready for a gay former lacrosse international rummaging through its dirty linen"? (2018-06-28)
... that Flame Con, the first LGBTQ comic convention in New York City, kicks off its annual event with a dance party and drag performances? (2018-06-20)
... that the deaths of Alloura Wells and Tess Richey, reported one day apart, renewed fears of a serial killer in Toronto's gay village? (2018-06-19)
... that historians generally agree that Gilgamesh (pictured) was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk? (2018-06-13)
... that bisexual lighting (colours pictured) has been criticized for contributing to the perpetuation of bisexual stereotypes? (2018-05-06)
... that the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "The Haunting of Amphipolis" was changed at the behest of the writers from focusing on a murdered man and his daughter to featuring the demon Mephistopheles? (2018-05-05)
... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay? (2018-04-29)
... that the 2012 anthology No Straight Lines, edited by Justin Hall, collects queer comics covering a 40-year period? (2018-04-09)
... that Emily Riehl, former bassist for the band Unstraight, wrote about "unstraightening" in her research as a professional mathematician? (2018-03-28)
... that the Domestic Partnerships Act 2018 made Bermuda the first national territory in the world to recriminalise same-sex marriage? (2018-03-24)
... that oceanographer and former Florida State University dean Nancy Marcus was also a magician and ventriloquist? (2018-03-18)
... that Tillie Walden's graphic novel Spinning, a memoir of her adolescent career as a competitive figure skater, was originally her thesis for the Center for Cartoon Studies? (2018-03-16)
... that according to writer Charlie Brooker, the Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" was set in California as a "fuck you" to people complaining that the show would become Americanised? (2018-03-14)
... that the appearance of Ash Lynx, the main character in the manga Banana Fish, is based on tennis player Stefan Edberg and actor River Phoenix? (2018-03-12)
... that Emma Jane Gay, known for her photographs of the Nez Perce people in the late 19th century, is identified as the first American lesbian photographer? (2018-03-08)
... that Marie Grice Young, piano instructor for President Theodore Roosevelt's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic? (2018-01-27)
... that Marie Grice Young, piano instructor for Theodore Roosevelt's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic? (2018-01-24)
... that Phillipe Cunningham is one of the first openly transgender people of color to be elected to public office in the United States? (2018-01-23)
... that Hazel Carter was reported to have received the United States' first military funeral for a woman? (2018-01-20)
... that producers of the 2012 Austrian short film Homophobia raised US$10,100 in 69 days through crowdfunding on Indiegogo? (2018-01-17)
... that Steven Universe is the first Cartoon Network series created solely by a woman, Rebecca Sugar (pictured)? (2017-12-26)
... that Harry Bush obsessed that if anyone found out he was a gay erotic artist he would lose his American military pension? (2017-12-19)
... that South African lawyer Sibongile Ndashe was arrested in Tanzania for advocating against an anti-gay law that limited treatment for HIV/AIDS? (2017-12-09)
... that Irish rugby referee Joy Neville was the first woman to be an assistant referee in a men's European Challenge Cup match? (2017-11-19)
... that Luca Guadagnino, who directed the romantic drama film Call Me by Your Name, was first hired as a location consultant for the film? (2017-11-12)
... that James Fugaté was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy after it was revealed that he wrote Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel under the pen name James Barr? (2017-11-10)
... that Lindsay Peat has represented Ireland internationally at association football, basketball, and rugby union? (2017-11-08)
... that the UK Holocaust Memorial, to be built in London's Victoria Tower Gardens, will stand alongside other memorials that raise awareness of injustice? (2017-11-07)
... that Ines Rau is the first transgender woman to be a Playboy Playmate? (2017-11-02)
... that Judge Orfa Jean Shontz created an all female juvenile court with a homelike setting? (2017-10-04)
... that after Silence=Death posters (pictured) appeared around Manhattan, William Olander created a New Museum exhibit highlighting public indifference to AIDS victims? (2017-10-03)
... that Don Amador is portrayed in the film Milk by his friend Cleve Jones, while Jones is portrayed by Emile Hirsch? (2017-10-01)
... that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues? (2017-10-01)
... that illustrator Ida Waugh met her life partner Amy Ella Blanchard when the latter was hired as a tutor for her younger brother, future painter Frederick Judd Waugh? (2017-09-28)
... that in 1948, Oreste Pucciani, champion of the "direct method" of language teaching, banned English from his classroom at UCLA? (2017-09-26)
... that the lambda (pictured) designed by Tom Doerr as a symbol for the Gay Activists Alliance was chrome yellow, a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel Crome Yellow? (2017-09-25)
... that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to whom she is now buried in Atlanta? (2017-09-24)
... that cowboy Little Joe Monahan's gender became a national news story in 1904? (2017-09-23)
... that the season two premiere of the Canadian television series 19-2 featured an uninterrupted, 13-minute single-camera sequence of a school shooting, based on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal? (2017-09-22)
... that the song cycles by Wilhelm Killmayer, written across five decades, set poems by authors from Sappho to Peter Härtling, with a focus on the late poems by Hölderlin? (2017-09-19)
... that Elizabeth Wade White was accepted into the B.Litt. program at Oxford, despite not having an undergraduate degree? (2017-09-18)
... that the mirror suggested by Elsie de Wolfe and added by James Amster to make his Amster Yard look bigger is still in place today? (2017-09-08)
... that American socialite Isabel Pell joined the Maquis and rescued a contingent of American soldiers in France during World War II? (2017-09-02)
... that when Helen Huntington Hull inherited Among the Sierra Nevada, California (pictured) by Albert Bierstadt, she had it glued directly to a wall of her mansion? (2017-09-01)
... that in 1975, Barbara May Cameron, a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota, co-founded the first gay Indian organization in San Francisco? (2017-08-30)
... that Christian William Miller, inventor of a water desalination device promoted by Franklin D. Roosevelt, was considered one of the most beautiful men in the 1940s New York gay society? (2017-08-29)
... that Thomas Lyle Williams had the idea to create the first mascara, Maybelline, after seeing his sister Mabel use a mix of petroleum jelly and burnt cork to darken her eyelashes? (2017-08-26)
... that Alma Lutz was the biographer of women's rights activists including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Emma Willard? (2017-08-22)
... that "Neon Blue" is about coming out? (2017-08-21)
... that Katharine Peabody Loring taught history with Alice James at the first correspondence school in the United States? (2017-08-13)
... that Clementina Anstruther-Thomson and Vernon Lee openly lived together as a lesbian couple during the Victorian era? (2017-08-06)
... that the 2008 film Dostana inspired several fashion trends in India, with Priyanka Chopra's silver sari, worn in the song "Desi Girl", becoming very popular? (2017-08-02)
... that episode 5276 of the BBC soap opera EastEnders features a transgender character being rejected by his mother? (2017-07-31)
... that Grace Hutchins promoted a radical Christian pacifist movement in the United States? (2017-07-27)
... that Norah C. James' first book Sleeveless Errand was ruled obscene and ordered by the Bow Street Police Court to be destroyed? (2017-07-23)
... that Paul Abels, the first openly gay minister to serve in a major Christian denomination in the United States, was nearly removed from his pastorate after he came out in the 1970s? (2017-07-19)
... that Ray Hill has married 12 prisoners' loved ones for them by proxy on his radio show? (2017-07-17)
... that Dutch politician Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello was the first person to introduce protection of lesbian rights and anti-discrimination measures at an official UN conference? (2017-07-13)
... that Scissor Sisters and MNDR conceived the song "Swerlk" to commemorate the anniversary of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting? (2017-07-11)
... that Virginia Apuzzo was a nun until shortly after the Stonewall riots, when she left her convent and became a gay rights and AIDS activist? (2017-07-10)
... that despite his role as a medic to the Decepticons, the character of Knock Out in Transformers: Prime was created as a foil to Bumblebee? (2017-07-09)
... that Sunil Babu Pant was the first openly gay federal-level legislator in Asia? (2017-07-07)
... that Helen Sandoz sometimes wrote editorials for the lesbian magazine The Ladder from the perspective of her cat? (2017-06-23)
... that Peter Bonsall-Boone and his partner personally appealed to the Australian Prime Minister to legalise same-sex marriage? (2017-06-21)
... that Frieda Fraser and Edith Williams corresponded for 24 years before they were able to acquire a home to live together in 1941? (2017-06-20)
... that Xavier Bettel became the first European Union leader to marry someone of the same sex when he married Gauthier Destenay in 2015? (2017-06-19)
... that the Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture (pictured) is nicknamed "The Queer with the Leer" and "The Fag on the Crag"? (2017-06-15)
... that the manga My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame tackles issues of homophobia in Japanese society? (2017-05-23)
... that sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh was deported from the U.S. in 1960 for speaking out against the House Un-American Activities Committee? (2017-05-11)
... that gay Jewish poet Jacob Hiegentlich committed suicide days after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands? (2017-05-05)
... that professional figure skaters Stéphane Lambiel and Nobunari Oda had cameos in the anime series Yuri on Ice? (2017-04-25)
... that Judge Rinder is not a judge? (2017-04-01)
... that the bisexual journalist Edith Shackleton Heald was W. B. Yeats' mistress, and lived with the openly lesbian artist Gluck for 32 years? (2017-02-03)
... that Chloë Sevigny portrays the accused ax-murderer Lizzie Borden in the upcoming film Lizzie? (2017-01-29)
... that drag queen Violet Chachki's EP Gagged was inspired by her time working as an assistant to a dominatrix? (2017-01-15)
... that Swedish radio presenter Roger Nordin revealed during a live broadcast in 2005 that he was homosexual? (2017-01-13)
... that mathematician Moon Duchin was inspired to break gender barriers in mathematics by a book on baseball player Jackie Robinson's struggles against racism? (2017-01-10)
... that Caleb Orozco, who successfully challenged the Belize Criminal Code for violations to his privacy and freedom of expression, won the 2016 David Kato Vision and Voice award? (2017-01-07)
... that Filibus (pictured), a fictional sky pirate, has been called one of the first lesbian characters in cinema? (2016-12-28)
... that Natalie Sims co-wrote the Iggy Azalea song "Work", which sold over one million copies in the US? (2016-12-27)
... that the Westboro Baptist Church called Houston's Montrose Center "an oozing, purulent sore of sodomite contagion"? (2016-12-16)
... that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS? (2016-12-01)
... that the 7th Marquess of Bristol once reportedly opened a fridge door by blasting it with a shotgun? (2016-11-17)
... that the Russian gay propaganda law was blamed for an alleged increase in homophobic attacks? (2016-11-06)
... that the journalist and author Carolin Emcke was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2016? (2016-11-05)
... that Jason Graae had to use his ad libbing skills when a fake moustache "started to take on a life of its own" on the opening night of Little Me? (2016-11-04)
... that Helen Richardson-Walsh and her wife Kate were both members of the team that won Great Britain's first Olympic gold in women's hockey? (2016-10-17)
... that David Carritt discovered a Fragonard misattributed at auction, a van der Weyden in a cottage, a Tiepolo on an Egyptian embassy ceiling, and five Guardis rolled up in a Dublin shed? (2016-10-15)
... that Paralympian shot putter Angela Madsen (pictured) has also rowed across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans? (2016-09-16)
... that Anne-Marie shared a stage with Jessie J as a kid? (2016-08-24)
... that awards for The Danish Girl included the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Alicia Vikander's portrayal of Danish painter Gerda Wegener? (2016-08-23)
... that Peter Paige originally auditioned for the role of Ted Schmidt in the American version of Queer as Folk? (2016-08-22)
... that Ross Adams worked as a script editor on the soap opera Emmerdale before he was cast as Scott Drinkwell in Hollyoaks? (2016-08-22)
... that Billie Ert and Antonio Molina, a drag queen and former football star, respectively, in 1972 became the first same-sex couple to be married in Texas? (2016-07-30)
... that Stassybot's 2016 video game Fragments of Him was compared to That Dragon, Cancer due to the "emotional" settings and "gloomy visual tones"? (2016-07-23)
... that the Hollyoaks actor James Sutton has described James Nightingale as a strong and powerful character? (2016-07-13)
... that Dyke Action Machine! created public art that used commercial photography styling to present lesbian images that resisted sexism and consumerism? (2016-07-12)
... that the Stonewall National Monument in New York City is the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to LGBT history? (2016-07-07)
Pulse (nightclub) (article's talk page missing blurb) (2016-07-01)
... that Omar Mateen, who in June 2016 committed the deadliest mass shooting in the United States by a single gunman, previously appeared in the documentary film The Big Fix? (2016-07-01)
... that a 1980s slide show of Asian lesbians in history and literature created by June Chan and Katherine Hall has been called "grassroots scholarship"? (2016-06-27)
... that motsoalle is the term for socially acceptable, long-term relationships between Basotho women in Lesotho? (2016-06-26)
... that Andrea Jenkins plans to collect up to 400 hours of transgender oral history? (2016-06-26)
... that 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon champion Caitlyn Jenner (pictured) was once a Playgirl magazine cover model? (2016-06-24)
... that one of the few nearly-complete poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho, preserved on a papyrus (pictured) from the third century BC, was published in 2004? (2016-06-20)
... that Louise Stevens Bryant, a secretary for the Girl Scouts, also worked with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis? (2016-06-13)
... that in 1988 Ruth Lockhart oversaw campus AIDS education programs like "Love Carefully Day", when flowers, candies, and condoms were distributed to students to give to "that special someone"? (2016-06-12)
... that Saul Levin is the first openly gay CEO of the American Psychiatric Association? (2016-06-10)
... that game developers changed the victory pose for the Overwatch character Tracer, after a fan noted that her original pose was over sexualized? (2016-06-06)
... that Geraldine Roman is the first openly transgender woman elected to the Congress of the Philippines? (2016-05-27)
... that Hisashi Eguchi abandoned the serialization of his manga Stop!! Hibari-kun! after fleeing to a hotel room? (2016-05-20)
... that 76 people complained when the EastEnders characters Paul Coker and Ben Mitchell were seen topless together in a funeral parlour with a corpse in the room? (2016-05-01)
... that The Simpsons episode "The Burns Cage" takes its name from The Birdcage, a film starring Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria? (2016-04-25)
... that Swedish writer Eva Alexanderson translated works by Umberto Eco, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky? (2016-04-21)
... that Ursula K. Le Guin's Hugo and Nebula award-winning 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a fictional planet whose people are neither male nor female for most of their sexual cycle? (2016-04-19)
... that Orange Is the New Black is the first series to receive Emmy Award nominations in both the comedy and drama categories? (2016-04-19)
... that Klara Johanson was the first person from her Swedish hometown to sit the upper secondary school final examinations? (2016-04-18)
... that Nisha Ayub has said she could be stripped naked and killed, but her transgender identity could not be taken from her? (2016-04-15)
... that He was gay? (2016-04-01)
... that Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr. is credited with bringing the televangelist Oral Roberts into the United Methodist Church in 1968? (2016-03-17)
... that Afro-Dominican lesbian feminist scholar Ochy Curiel was a featured musician at the 2004 Teddy Awards in Berlin? (2016-03-08)
... that Afro-Curaçaoan writer and educator Joceline Clemencia advocated for Papiamento to become an official language of Curaçao? (2016-03-08)
... that the web series Go Princess Go has been cut by about a third by Chinese censors concerned about its themes of sex and time travel? (2016-03-03)
... that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants? (2016-02-29)
... that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis" for igniting debate on cultural racism? (2016-02-26)
... that Randy W. Berry, who grew up on a cattle ranch in Colorado, is the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in the US Department of State? (2016-02-20)
... that Clara Henry (pictured) wrote the book I've Got the Period, So What? about female menstrual periods and why women should not be ashamed to talk about them? (2016-01-24)
... that Dragon Age: Origins has 68,260 lines of dialogue, and its quality assurance testers enabled a cheat to automatically skip dialogues during test runs? (2016-01-15)
... that Ian McDonald's 2015 science fiction novel Luna: New Moon has been called "Game of Thrones in space"? (2016-01-13)
... that Carrie Mac, a Canadian author specializing in Young Adult fiction, is a winner of the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, and the Arthur Ellis Award? (2016-01-12)
... that in December 2015, Trent Zimmerman became the first openly gay man to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives? (2016-01-09)
... that drummer, singer, and songwriter Emily Estefan was born in 1994 after her mother, Gloria Estefan, had been told she would never give birth following a 1990 tour-bus crash? (2015-12-31)
... that David Leitch left his partner Chad Stahelski's John Wick 2 in order to direct The Coldest City? (2015-12-27)
... that a white, straight, female character in Master of None was rewritten as a black lesbian after Lena Waithe read for the role? (2015-12-22)
... that when former rugby league player Casey Conway came out, he expressed disappointment that Anthony Mundine had claimed homosexuality was not an acceptable part of Aboriginal culture? (2015-12-17)
... that Minnesotan actor Odin Biron moved to Moscow speaking almost no Russian but went on to become a popular character on the top-rated Russian sitcom Interns? (2015-12-13)
... that the video game Life Is Strange was originally going to be called What If but was retitled due to the film of the same name? (2015-12-07)
... that Laverne Cox has been cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the upcoming "reimagining" of The Rocky Horror Picture Show? (2015-11-28)
... that some commentators credit Leelah Alcorn with inspiring "a flashpoint for transgender progress in 2014"? (2015-11-20)
... that Silvana Imam and her girlfriend Beatrice Eli performed together in 2015 under the stage name Vierge Moderne? (2015-11-06)
... that Swedish fashion designer Lars-Åke Wilhelmsson is known for his dragshow character Babsan (pictured)? (2015-10-15)
... that Saga Becker in 2015 became the first transsexual actress both to be nominated and win a Guldbaggen Award? (2015-10-03)
... that the lesbian romantic coming-of-age drama, Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), was the first film for which three artists received the Palme d'Or? (2015-09-30)
... that the Society for Human Rights, America's first LGBT rights organization, was founded in Chicago's Henry Gerber House, now a National Historic Landmark? (2015-09-30)
... that the scar on Nicky Nichols' chest in Orange Is the New Black is a real scar from Natasha Lyonne's heart surgery in 2012? (2015-09-22)
... that Peter Maloney was one of the first Canadian political figures to come out as gay? (2015-09-15)
... that in August 2015, David Denson became the first active baseball player affiliated with a Major League Baseball organization to publicly come out as gay? (2015-09-12)
... that the music video for Demi Lovato's single "Cool for the Summer" is her "most sexually liberated video" and marks "a new chapter of her career"? (2015-08-03)
... that Ray Davies was forced to make a round-trip flight from New York to London to rerecord two words in "Lola"? (2015-07-31)
... that I Am Jazz, the first reality show about a transgender teen, debuted on TLC at the same time Caitlyn Jenner was receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs? (2015-07-25)
... that Gay Life was the United Kingdom's first LGBT television series? (2015-07-18)
... that President Barack Obama awarded Meryl Streep the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom? (2015-07-17)
... that Victoria Price, the daughter of horror icon Vincent Price, is not a fan of horror films? (2015-07-08)
... that Sian Heder had written the screenplay for Tallulah by 2006, but the film only began shooting this June? (2015-07-08)
... that Mhairi Black is the youngest elected British Member of Parliament since at least 1832? (2015-07-02)
... that before pianist Vince Cardell was discovered by Liberace, he drove a truck for a diaper company? (2015-06-29)
... that Violet Chachki is the winner of season seven of RuPaul's Drag Race? (2015-06-27)
... that David K. Smith, a York University professor of chemistry, has been described as "one of the most visible out gay scientists"? (2015-06-27)
... that Lucien von Römer wrote in 1908 that homosexuality was innate, a view described by others as being "in conflict with morality and offensive to others"? (2015-06-26)
... that openly gay chemistry professor James Nowick taught a course called "Queer Science, Queer Scientists"? (2015-06-24)
... that mathematician and LGBT activist Ron Buckmire researches topics such as computational aerodynamics, nonstandard finite difference schemes, and modeling the financial performance of movies? (2015-06-23)
... that Graham Chapman was one of the first celebrities to come out of the closet in Britain, and financially supported Gay News? (2015-06-23)
... that Die Freundschaft (Friendship), founded in 1919, was the world's first gay publication to be sold openly at newsstands? (2015-06-22)
... that endocrinologist Neena Schwartz had a 50-year career in scientific research, but only came out as lesbian after she retired? (2015-06-21)
... that Gayby Baby is a documentary film about "gaybies", children raised by gay or lesbian couples? (2015-06-10)
... that gay and bisexual boys who adopted more feminine gender roles at a younger age are at higher risk for suicide, sexual abuse, and drug abuse than other gay and bisexual youth? (2015-05-31)
... that Assassin's Creed Syndicate was called Assassin's Creed Victory prior to its official reveal? (2015-05-19)
... that Siri Lindley retired as the number-one female triathlete after winning back-to-back Triathlon World Cup titles? (2015-05-12)
... that actress Ellen Page accused Naughty Dog of "ripping off [her] likeness" for the design of Ellie in their video game The Last of Us? (2015-05-10)
... that The Last of Us: Left Behind featured entire gameplay encounters involving water guns, and a photo booth? (2015-05-05)
... that after Hitler assumed power, Vera Lachmann founded a school for Jewish children expelled from German public schools? (2015-05-04)
... that Fran Kirby scored nine goals for Reading in her first two 2015 Women's Super League appearances? (2015-04-29)
... that The Last of Us is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest video games of all time? (2015-04-22)
... that the Carrington House and the Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre‎‎ are two of only five properties listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their contributions to LGBT history? (2015-04-21)
... that Annakarin Svedberg wrote a pornographic parody of Little Red Riding Hood? (2015-04-21)
... that when Dr. Margery Blackie treated Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, she brought arsenic, death cap mushrooms, and Gila monster venom? (2015-04-10)
... that Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer encourages Internet trolling by its "Troll Army"? (2015-04-02)
... that Detroit-based Avalon International Breads is the largest purchaser of organic bread flour in Michigan? (2015-04-02)
The Danish Girl (film) (article's talk page missing blurb) (2015-03-31)
... that Ximena Cuevas is the first Mexican videographic artist whose works were acquired for the permanent collection of New York's MoMA? (2015-03-24)
... that the directors of Quinceañera shot the film in their neighbors' houses and cast their cleaning lady in a role? (2015-03-20)
... that Dope is cinematographer Rachel Morrison's seventh film to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in six consecutive years? (2015-03-07)
... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater? (2015-03-07)
... that the LGBT drama series Cucumber, Banana, and Tofu are all named after the same study of the male erection? (2015-03-05)
... that a US$399 limited edition of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection includes a remote-controlled Claptrap? (2015-02-28)
... that in 1629 a Virginia court sentenced Thomasine Hall to wear items of both male and female clothing simultaneously? (2015-02-03)
... that portraying the role of lesbian headmistress Caroline Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax earned actress Sarah Lancashire the most fan mail of her career? (2015-02-03)
... that HIV activist Josh Robbins was diagnosed with HIV while participating in the HIV vaccine research study HVTN 505? (2015-01-09)
... that Maryat Lee's company Eco Theater developed plays from oral histories, using unpaid actors in productions often followed by discussions? (2014-12-23)
... that Bucko by Erika Moen and Jeff Parker was published as a webcomic before being published as a physical graphic novel? (2014-12-13)
... that poet Jackie HillPerry has started branching out into hip hop music, releasing her debut album in November 2014? (2014-12-08)
... that the National Association of Black and White Men Together is an organization for LGBT people in the U.S. who are interested in multiracial relationships? (2014-12-06)
... that Orange Is the New Black character Lorna Morello has been said to have "the most amazing accent on television"? (2014-11-08)
... that Winners & Losers producer Maryanne Carroll helped actor Damien Bodie secure the role of Jonathan Kurtiss? (2014-11-07)
... that according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook's real-name policy "disproportionately affect[s] the LGBTQ community"? (2014-10-29)
... that The Caravan Club in London claimed to be "the most unconventional spot in town" with "All night gaiety" and "Dancing to Charlie"? (2014-10-25)
... that the upcoming film Freeheld is based on the true story of a police officer's battle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner? (2014-10-23)
... that in 1920 Louise Pearce tested a cure for the fatal epidemic of African sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo? (2014-10-20)
... that in 1996 Jamie Nabozny sued school officials for failing to protect him from years of homophobic bullying? (2014-10-17)
... that Uzo Aduba won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress as Orange Is the New Black's "Crazy Eyes", while Taylor Schilling was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress as Piper Chapman? (2014-10-16)
Sophie (musician) (article's talk page missing blurb) (2014-10-15)
... that Susann Müller was top scorer at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship, and further elected to the All-Star team of the tournament? (2014-10-03)
... that the trans woman activist Miss Major (pictured) was meeting with her girlfriend at the Stonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated the Stonewall riot? (2014-09-23)
... that American singer ILoveMakonnen was named after the royal family of Ethiopia, but is in fact of African, Indian, Irish, Belgian, German and Chinese descent? (2014-09-18)
... that the film Dallas Buyers Club is about Ron Woodroof (played by Matthew McConaughey), a real-life AIDS patient who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas? (2014-09-16)
... that while working as a French teacher, the future Romanian art critic George Oprescu denounced the German occupation, prompting his arrest and deportation to an internment camp in Bulgaria? (2014-09-02)
... that "If It Wasn't True" from countertenor Shamir's 2014 Northtown EP was called "Your Favorite Breakup Song" by Vogue and "semidissonant pulses tickled by antsy snares and hi-hats" by Dazed? (2014-09-01)
... that Bernard Perlin created some of the best-known World War II propaganda produced by America's Office of War Information? (2014-08-27)
... that Anna Rüling, "the first lesbian activist" and one of the first women to publicly declare her homosexuality, believed that lesbians were more suited to careers than straight women? (2014-08-26)
... that the Argentine telenovela Viudas e hijos del Rock and Roll is Paola Barrientos's first television appearance in a lead role? (2014-08-25)
... that pride parades in South Africa (pictured) are increasingly used for political advocacy against LGBT hate crimes and to remember their victims? (2014-08-24)
... that filmmaker Michelle Parkerson has been called "a visionary risk-taker"? (2014-08-24)
... that according to the Lesbian Film Guide, She Must Be Seeing Things was a "deeply controversial film ... dismissed outright by some as pornography"? (2014-08-09)
... that Autumn Sandeen was the first US service member to publicly have her gender identification changed on all her military records? (2014-08-06)
... that when the Weimar-era German magazine Frauenliebe was relaunched as Garçonne, the French title was thought to be "more modish"? (2014-08-05)
... that if somebody wants to employ a gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish, he/she can use hen? (2014-07-30)
... that Hilda Käkikoski was one of the first women elected to the Finnish parliament? (2014-07-27)
... that Michael Botticelli is the first director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to state that he is in recovery for a substance abuse problem? (2014-07-22)
... that the offices of the Danish magazine Vennen were raided by police in the so-called "Great Porno Affair"? (2014-07-13)
... that the 2014 Korea Queer Culture Festival was disrupted by anti-LGBT, conservative Christian demonstrators? (2014-07-09)
... that a transgender human clone is introduced as a new character in the Orphan Black episode "Variable and Full of Perturbation"? (2014-07-01)
... that Katy Perry is the first artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100? (2014-06-22)
... that Anjali Joseph's debut novel, Saraswati Park, won both the Betty Trask Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize? (2014-06-19)
... that Kakan Hermansson (pictured) held an art exhibition during the "West Pride", an LGBT festival in Gothenburg in 2014? (2014-06-19)
... that the Swiss magazine Der Kreis was the only gay magazine available in Europe during World War II and the Nazi regime? (2014-06-18)
... that the Equality Parade (pictured) in Warsaw, Poland, held since 2001, is the oldest pride parade in a former European Communist bloc country? (2014-06-10)
... that David Ames auditioned for another Holby City character prior to winning the role of Dominic Copeland? (2014-06-08)
... that Christopher Senyonjo, a retired bishop of the Church of Uganda who opposed "draconian" anti-gay legislation, was honored by former US president Bill Clinton? (2014-06-05)
... that the Lesbian Tide has been called the United States' first national lesbian newspaper? (2014-05-09)
... that actress Samira Wiley works on Orange Is the New Black alongside a writer and another cast member with whom she became friends while attending the Juilliard School? (2014-05-07)
... that readers of Focus: A Journal for Lesbians could pay extra to buy the magazine in a brown wrapper? (2014-05-06)
... that one reviewer said that the 1991 gay pornographic film Jumper was "modeled somewhat" on the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait? (2014-05-02)
... that Abbi Jacobson plays a fictionalized version of herself on the Comedy Central series Broad City? (2014-04-30)
... that Derrick Gordon is the first NCAA Division I college basketball player to come out as gay? (2014-04-23)
... that Susan Stryker's book Transgender History includes how the Compton's Cafeteria riot first began and other transgender protests of the 1960s? (2014-04-22)
... that Cason Crane was the first openly gay man to climb the Seven Summits? (2014-03-22)
... that in her quest to find a cure for leprosy, nurse Kate Marsden (pictured) travelled some 11,000 miles (18,000 km) across Russia? (2014-03-20)
... that Hugh Wheeler's Big Fish, Little Fish (1961) was one of the first Broadway plays to explore the theme of homosexuality in a sensitive and honest way? (2014-03-19)
... that Megan Rapinoe (pictured) is the first soccer player, male or female, to score a rare Goal Olimpico at the Olympic Games? (2014-03-11)
... that Enid Blyton's books were banned by the BBC for being "second-rate" and without merit? (2014-03-02)
... that Marta Dusseldorp visited the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery to prepare for her role as Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet King? (2014-03-01)
... that Kansas House Bill 2453 would allow service providers in Kansas to refuse service to same-sex couples under the purview of religious liberty? (2014-02-28)
... that Conner Mertens was the first active college football player to publicly come out about his sexuality? (2014-02-27)
... that the music video for Kylie Minogue's 2010 single "All the Lovers" was intended as homage to the singer's gay audience? (2014-02-25)
... that college football All-American Michael Sam could become the first active National Football League player to have publicly come out as gay? (2014-02-19)
... that "A Quiet Night In", the second episode of British dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9, was almost entirely free of dialogue? (2014-02-17)
... that Luisa Zissman named one of her businesses, Dixie's Cupcakery, after her daughter? (2014-02-16)
... that the Great American Lesbian Art Show was the first time that lesbians of color participated in a major exhibition of lesbian art? (2014-02-13)
... that much of the filming for "Sardines", the first episode of Inside No. 9, took place in a wardrobe? (2014-02-11)
... that during his childhood, Josh Hutcherson once dyed the tips of his hair to match one of Justin Timberlake's looks? (2014-02-10)
... that the creation of the Warsaw Gay Movement was a counter-reaction of Polish gays against Operation Hyacinth? (2014-01-04)
... that the Tęcza in Warsaw has been vandalized several times, most commonly due to anti-LGBT sentiments? (2013-11-26)
... that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the centenary Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"? (2013-11-07)
... that Jeffrey Trammell married Stuart Serkin at the United States Supreme Court building, in a ceremony presided over by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor? (2013-11-06)
... that Jamie Stewart's voice has been compared to Robert Smith's fragility and The Downward Spiral-era Trent Reznor's anger? (2013-11-03)
... that HIV/AIDS activist Spencer Cox designed a clinical trial that resulted in the approval of a protease inhibitor? (2013-11-02)
... that Robby Mook became involved in politics when he tried out for a school play? (2013-10-08)
... that Stephen Rhodes was the first openly gay driver in NASCAR competition? (2013-09-30)
... that the Argentine miniseries Para vestir santos featured a lesbian main character, at the time of the sanction of same-sex marriage in Argentina? (2013-09-17)
... that Chirlane McCray, who wrote the "groundbreaking" 1979 essay "I Am a Lesbian" for Essence, later married Bill de Blasio? (2013-09-04)
... that Russian television personality Anton Krasovsky caused a controversy in Russia by publicly declaring he is gay? (2013-08-22)
... that magic realist painter Lodewijk Bruckman has a permanent exhibition in Museum de Oude Wolden, located in Bellingwolde, the Netherlands? (2013-08-13)
... that Selli Engler, a pioneer of the lesbian movement in 1920s Germany, later wrote a play titled "Heil Hitler"? (2013-07-28)
... that the Hyde Park Holocaust memorial of Hyde Park, London, was the first public memorial in Great Britain dedicated to the Holocaust? (2013-07-15)
... that the song "Ice Cream Truck" by Cazwell was originally written for the 2010 film Spork, before it was suggested by his manager that a music video be done for the song? (2013-07-08)
... that L.S. Alexander Gumby complied 300 scrapbooks documenting African-American history, and was known as the "Great God Gumby"? (2013-07-04)
... that Gavin Arthur, grandson of United States President Chester A. Arthur, worked as an astrologer and sexologist in San Francisco in the 1960s? (2013-06-23)
... that Eva Brunne (pictured) is the first openly lesbian bishop in the world? (2013-06-23)
... that the 1934 Jeanne Galzy novel Jeunes filles en serre chaude, with its seductive title, was deemed to contain "dangerous aberrations" and "strong emotional reaction[s] of an undesirable nature"? (2013-06-21)
... that the first edition of the Star Trek novel Killing Time included overtones of Kirk/Spock (Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner pictured) slash fiction? (2013-06-18)
... that Kristin Beck served as a Navy Seal for 20 years before revealing her gender identity as a woman? (2013-06-16)
... that Jeanne Galzy's novel Burnt Offering, winner of the 1930 Prix Brentano, explores a love between a teacher and a 12-year-old female student? (2013-06-16)
... that porn star Danny Wylde and his girlfriend contributed a film of themselves having sex to a website that aims to provide more realistic representations of sex than are found in hardcore pornography? (2013-06-03)
... that in 1730, the Dutch Republic persecuted more than two hundred suspected "sodomites", in what became known as the Utrecht sodomy trials? (2013-05-18)
... that Maria Konopnicka's poem Rota became so popular it was seen as unofficial anthem of Poland? (2013-05-16)
... that the web series My Best Gay Friends, considered to be the first gay sitcom in Vietnam, was filmed using a DSLR camera? (2013-05-08)
... that screenwriter Sally Wainwright was inspired by her mother's second marriage when writing Last Tango in Halifax, a story of romance between two widowed septuagenarians? (2013-05-08)
... that no active American football player has publicly come out as gay in either the National Football League (NFL) or in the Division I level of college football? (2013-05-06)
... that Kevin Bacon made his debut as a director in 1996 with the Golden Globe Award winning television film Losing Chase? (2013-05-02)
... that American football player Alan Gendreau, the Sun Belt Conference's all-time leading scorer, was known to be gay by his team? (2013-04-29)
... that the novel Passing by Nella Larsen, with its focus on "jealousy, psychological ambiguity and intrigue" has been described as a "skillfully executed and enduring work of art"? (2013-04-04)
... that Walter Baxter wrote about the gay Batman–Kent relationship? (2013-04-01)
... that Maxine Feldman's song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival? (2013-03-25)
... that Megan Schutt was the leading wicket-taker during the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup? (2013-03-21)
... that Prince Eugen of Sweden, a painter trained in France, was seen as a suitable candidate for the throne of Norway in 1905? (2013-02-21)
... that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis? (2013-01-21)
... that the creator of the TV series Homeland, Gideon Raff, is the son of a former Accountant General in Israel's Ministry of Finance? (2012-12-22)
... that the award-winning film Frank's Cock is split into quadrants to symbolise the "fragmentation of the body" experienced by those with AIDS? (2012-12-01)
... that staff from Company magazine devised an internship storyline for the soap opera Hollyoaks after watching Esther Bloom discuss fashion on-screen? (2012-11-25)
... that Mark Takano is set to be the first non-White openly gay member of the United States House of Representatives? (2012-11-13)
... that before directing the award-winning film Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs shot and directed The Delta in his hometown? (2012-11-12)
... that Brookside's producer Paul Marquess received letters complaining that Lance Powell, a character featured in the soap opera, was a "betrayal of all gay men"? (2012-11-03)
... that the producer, director, choreographer and writer of the upcoming Broadway musical Kinky Boots have all won Tony Awards, while its lyricist is a Grammy Award winner? (2012-10-18)
... that a reviewer called the gay pornographic film Dream Team an allegory of gay liberation? (2012-09-04)
... that Mike Hoolboom's Letters from Home was based on a speech by LGBT activist Vito Russo? (2012-08-24)
... that Milo Yiannopoulos arranged a moonwalking flash mob at Liverpool Street station as a tribute to Michael Jackson shortly after his death? (2012-07-24)
... that Argentine TV journalist Andy Kusnetzoff was considered a possible main actor for the comedy Graduados? (2012-07-04)
... that Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, George F. Kennan: An American Life and Water by the Spoonful won 2012 Pulitzer Prizes for History, General Non-Fiction, Biography or Autobiography and Drama, respectively? (2012-07-01)
... that the Gay Women's Alternative in D.C. began as a home gathering called the Gay Women's Open House at Lilli Vencez's home in 1971? (2012-06-30)
... that in his 2012 book, Scotty Bowers reveals Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars? (2012-06-17)
... that Fashion Star season one winner Kara Laricks describes her design aesthetic as "modern-day Annie Hall meets a Japanese street style"? (2012-06-01)
... that the pro-gay rap song "BEN (Better Everything Now)" was inspired by the coming out of the artist's gay friend and the It Gets Better campaign? (2012-05-30)
... that a nine-image series by Nadar may be the first medical photographic documentation of an intersex person? (2012-05-12)
... that the coming out of real-life gay former baseball player Glenn Burke inspired the Cheers episode "The Boys in the Bar"? (2012-05-05)
... that in the United States, sex in public bathrooms is more frequent in bars than in restaurants? (2012-05-05)
... that one reviewer called the subway scene of the gay pornographic film Inch by Inch a blend of "realism and 'classical cinema'"? (2012-05-03)
... that 126 people complained to Ofcom because Emmerdale character Ivan Jones kissed another male? (2012-05-02)
... that "gay penguins" Roy and Silo raised a chick at New York's Central Park Zoo, which when fully grown, entered into a same-sex relationship of its own? (2012-04-29)
... that An Evening in Paris was the first lesbian-themed Indonesian short story collection? (2012-04-28)
... that "Snail" was the first woman to compete in an international motor race? (2012-04-27)
... that Keith Meinhold, who came out publicly in 1992, was allowed to stay in the US Navy after a 1994 court decision as long as he did not say he was gay again? (2012-04-08)
... that in 2009, the urinal known as "The Carousel of Love" (pictured), a well known place for gay cruising, was declared a Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site? (2012-04-01)
... that in 2007, the owners of a hairy Fabulous Willy were criticised for being homosexual? (2012-04-01)
... that before being forced to resign from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1987 for homosexuality, Joseph Steffan sang the U.S. National Anthem at two Army–Navy games? (2012-03-30)
... that a review for the 2000 gay pornographic video A Young Man's World said its portrayal of fictional middle-aged men was demeaning to actual middle-aged men? (2012-03-10)
... that the lesbian German writer Christa Reinig stated in a poem, "Sometimes the gay shirt is closer to me than the feminist skirt"? (2012-03-08)
... that Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting Le Sommeil (pictured), depicting a lesbian relationship, was inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Delphine et Hippolyte"? (2012-03-03)
... that Friendship and Freedom, published in 1924, was the first gay-interest periodical in the United States? (2012-02-28)
... that Die Freundin, a German lesbian magazine published from 1924 to 1933, was temporarily shut down by the Weimar government? (2012-02-26)
... that English filmmaker Greta Schiller directed the 1976 short film Greta's Girls which is one of the first documentaries that focuses on lesbians? (2012-02-17)
... that Carina Vance Mafla's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that try to turn lesbians straight began years before she was appointed Ecuador's Minister for Public Health? (2012-02-10)
... that artist and suffragist Adele Goodman Clark and her partner Nora Houston set up their easels on a downtown streetcorner in Richmond, Virginia, and canvassed passers-by about women's suffrage? (2012-01-03)
... that a complete set of the treatises of Japanese playwright Zeami Motokiyo was not published until almost 500 years after his death? (2011-12-29)
... that Lost in Paradise is considered Vietnam's first gay film? (2011-12-16)
... that the Frank Kameny House in Washington, D.C., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the gay rights activism of its namesake? (2011-12-13)
... that the role of football coach Shannon Beiste was created for actress and 15-time world arm wrestling champion Dot-Marie Jones after she ran into Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk while shopping? (2011-12-11)
... that Section 20A of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act, which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"? (2011-12-07)
... that Constantinos A. Patrides, the author of Milton and the Christian Tradition, earned a medal for heroism for his boyhood service with the Greek Resistance against the German Occupation? (2011-11-28)
... that Max Adler had no idea his one-episode jock character Dave Karofsky on Glee would become the "nuanced" role of a closeted gay ex-bully and bearded prom king? (2011-10-21)
... that An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future, published in 1906, has been described as the first lesbian science fiction novel? (2011-10-20)
... that the geosocial networking app Blendr expands on its gay-oriented predecessor Grindr to allow all people to connect with others nearby with common interests? (2011-10-18)
... that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation? (2011-10-17)
... that immunologist and AIDS advocate Robert Frascino considered himself privileged after being infected with HIV? (2011-10-17)
... that Bert V. Royal, who wrote the high school comedy film Easy A, did not attend high school? (2011-10-11)
... that the upcoming game Borderlands 2 allows players to throw their empty guns at enemies to injure them? (2011-09-04)
... that, in 1972, lesbian feminist Dolores Alexander opened "Mother Courage", the first feminist restaurant in the United States? (2011-09-01)
... that the arrest of Brownie Mary led to one of the first clinical trials studying the effects of cannabinoids in HIV-infected adults? (2011-08-10)
... that Judge Jerold Krieger was a co-founder of the first lesbian and gay synagogue? (2011-08-01)
... that same-sex couples in South Africa gained the right to adopt children jointly in 2002, four years before they gained the right to marry? (2011-07-31)
... that I Am a Camera is a 1955 British film that received an X certificate from the BBFC, but only after dialogue suggesting foot fetishism was removed? (2011-07-27)
... that Christine Jorgensen Reveals is a docudrama about the first celebrity transsexual, who was called the world's most famous woman at the time? (2011-07-08)
... that Herlinatiens' first novel about lesbian relationships is considered the "coming out" for Indonesian writings about gays and lesbians? (2011-07-06)
... that a kiss between Dan Hamilton and Antoine Malick in the UK medical drama Holby City was criticised for "following the trend" of depicting gay relationships? (2011-06-25)
... that the Faith and Freedom Coalition was founded by Ralph Reed as "a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition"? (2011-06-20)
... that more than 4,000 people rallied in Portland, Oregon, for Hands Across Hawthorne in response to an assault on a gay couple? (2011-06-19)
... that Patricia Preece persuaded artist Stanley Spencer to divorce his wife, marry her, and sign his house over to her, but never left her lesbian lover? (2011-06-14)
... that Tom Kahn organized American unions' $300,000 aid to the Polish labor union Solidarity in 1980–1981, despite Secretary of State Muskie's warnings that this aid might provoke a new Soviet invasion? (2011-06-13)
... that Dan Savage indulged in the seven deadly sins during research for his book Skipping Towards Gomorrah? (2011-06-05)
... that when Dan Savage's book Savage Love was published, his advice column of the same name had 4 million readers? (2011-06-05)
... that Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts became the first prominent American sports executive to come out as gay when he did so in an interview with The New York Times on May 15, 2011? (2011-05-25)
... that Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story has been described as a profoundly moving video game about love, sex and the internet? (2011-05-23)
... that the creation of the documentary film America's Most Hated Family in Crisis was prompted by an email? (2011-05-13)
... that Nude Nuns with Big Guns is a nunsploitation thriller film that is the subject of a copyright lawsuit against torrent users involving 5,865 IP addresses? (2011-05-07)
... that the upscale boutiques and exclusive nightclub that Aspen, Colorado, developer Harley Baldwin put in the Brand Building and Collins Block earned them the nickname "Glitter Gulch"? (2011-05-01)
... that the Ethiopian eunuch (pictured) has been described as the "first baptized gay Christian"? (2011-04-20)
... that Rebecca Black's "Friday", dubbed the "worst song ever" by some critics, has made Black a "viral star" with the video attracting over 80 million Youtube hits? (2011-04-06)
... that because it depicts a same-sex marriage, the children's picture book King & King was the subject of a question in the 2008 Democratic U.S. presidential primary debates? (2011-04-04)
... that Leonardo da Vinci's student Salaì painted a nude version of the Mona Lisa called Monna Vanna (pictured)? (2011-04-03)
... that the music video for Rufus Wainwright's song "April Fools", which appeared on his eponymous debut album, featured cameo appearances by Melissa Auf der Maur and No Doubt's Gwen Stefani? (2011-03-28)
... that Lady Gaga approved the use of her song "Born This Way" for the Glee episode of the same name before the single premiered? (2011-03-24)
... that Reza Abbasi (pictured) abandoned his career as a Persian court painter to consort with wrestlers in a midlife crisis lasting some seven years until about 1610? (2011-03-20)
... that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8, a voter initiative against same-sex marriage? (2011-03-09)
... that the Monty Python sketch "The Mouse Problem", a mockumentary about men who want to be mice, parodies 1960s TV documentaries on homosexuality? (2011-03-05)
... that in 1984, while Queen's song "I Want to Break Free" charted within the Top 10 in Europe and South America, its video was banned in the US? (2011-02-23)
... that Stephen Herbits spent three years as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress? (2011-02-19)
... that French author Jeanne Galzy, largely forgotten today, wrote novels dealing with lesbian love and desire? (2011-02-15)
... that Aslie Pitter, founder of Stonewall F.C., Britain's first and most successful gay football club, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work fighting homophobia in London? (2011-02-15)
... that the Hindu deity Ardhanarishvara (pictured) is depicted with the right half as male, sometimes with an erect penis, and the left half as female with a well-developed breast? (2011-02-14)
... that after Rolling Stone published photos and addresses of 100 gays and lesbians under the headline "Hang Them", Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was awarded USh1.5 million in damages? (2011-02-08)
... that Jocelyne François won the Prix Femina in 1980 for Joue-nous "España", a partly autobiographical lesbian novel? (2011-02-04)
... that Borat Sagdiyev's son, who appeared in photos in the movie Borat, was actually trans woman and porn star Brittany CoxXx (pictured)? (2011-01-21)
... that playwright Lanford Wilson wrote The Madness of Lady Bright on the typewriter of the reservations desk of the Americana Hotel while working there as a receptionist? (2011-01-15)
... that Baths' debut album, Cerulean, though recorded in his bedroom in two months, was acknowledged by "album of the year" lists? (2011-01-14)
... that the song "For a Friend" from The Communards' album Red was written in memory of Mark Aston, a friend of the band members, who died from AIDS? (2011-01-13)
... that Patience and Sarah has been called the first lesbian opera? (2011-01-08)
... that Channel 4 music presenter Jameela Jamil was struck by a car at the age of 17 and was told she might never walk again? (2011-01-04)
... that the drama series Huge, created by Savannah Dooley and her mother, Winnie Holzman, employed Dooley's father as an actor and her uncle as the cinematographer? (2010-12-26)
... that twink gay porn star Tory Mason was discovered through his dudesnude profile? (2010-12-01)
... that the openly gay street scene in Mexico City's Zona Rosa has drawn comparisons with Barrio de Chueca in Madrid and the Castro District in San Francisco? (2010-11-26)
... that some counseling sessions of the ex-gay group Homosexuals Anonymous included "desensitizing" naked massages, but led the men being counseled to begin having sexual encounters with each other? (2010-11-26)
... that the upcoming film My Idiot Brother went into production unusually quickly for an independent film, with a first cut to be completed less than a year after the script was picked up? (2010-11-18)
... that after AIDS activist Rand Schrader died in 1993, his partner David Bohnett founded the GeoCities website using the benefits from Schrader's life insurance? (2010-11-12)
... that Congregation Or Chadash, Chicago's oldest LGBT synagogue, may have been targeted in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot? (2010-11-11)
... that the autobiographical film Orchids, My Intersex Adventure (which is about an intersexed woman) won a 2010 ATOM Award for Best Documentary (General)? (2010-11-06)
... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War, a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International? (2010-11-04)
... that Joseph Mitchell Parsons was the first prisoner to die in an execution chamber at Utah State Prison designed to accommodate both firing squads and lethal injections? (2010-10-29)
... that Jovan Ćirilov has been the artistic director and selector of BITEF festival for 43 years, the longest term in the history of international theatre festivals? (2010-10-21)
... that Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998), the state constitutional amendment restricting same-sex marriages, passed through the Twentieth Alaska Legislature with a vote of 42 yeas to 18 nays? (2010-10-20)
... that a series of novels based on the tale of Sleeping Beauty was removed from the Columbus Metropolitan Library in 1996? (2010-10-17)
... that, during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Stephen Colbert visited Pride House Vancouver, which is located in the LGBT community centre Qmunity? (2010-10-17)
... that with his appointment to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1979, Stephen Lachs was the first openly gay judge appointed in the United States? (2010-10-13)
... that Bill Andriette was 15 years old when he joined the pedophile organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)? (2010-10-13)
... that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music workshop at a local university? (2010-10-12)
... that Dutch dressage rider Edward Gal and his horse have been called "rock stars in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition? (2010-10-07)
... that sexologist James M. Cantor found that male pedophiles have significantly less white matter in their brains than do control subjects? (2010-10-05)
... that a practice in Afghanistan, where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh? (2010-09-30)
... that Louis Theroux traveled to Kansas to interview members of the Westboro Baptist Church for the documentary film The Most Hated Family in America? (2010-09-26)
... that the 1994 documentary, Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys, helped raise the profile of the pedophile group NAMBLA? (2010-09-26)
... that Canadian artist Will Munro became known for fashioning artistic works out of men's underwear? (2010-09-21)
... that Seymour Pine, who led the NYPD raid that triggered the Stonewall riots, later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"? (2010-09-20)
... that elderly Family Guy character Herbert's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store? (2010-08-31)
... that in 1991 Judicial Commissioner K. S. Rajah annulled a marriage between a woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery and another woman, reasoning that a transsexual's gender was biologically determined? (2010-06-28)
... that Carlos Monsiváis, who was a Mexican political activist and journalist, won more than 33 awards during his lifetime? (2010-06-26)
... that The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a BBC drama film based on the life of a 19th century lesbian industrialist? (2010-06-10)
... that actor and mime artist Jack Birkett, who was often billed as "The Incredible Orlando", continued to perform on stage and in films after becoming totally blind? (2010-06-10)
... that the author of Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop previously wrote celebrity biographies on Michael Jackson, Kerry Katona, and Robbie Williams? (2010-06-08)
... that Kevin Killian's My Vocabulary Did This to Me won the American Book Award for poetry in 2008 and his Impossible Princess won the Lambda Literary Award as best gay erotic fiction in 2009? (2010-06-08)
... that lesbian union organizer Mary Kay Henry was elected the first woman president of the Service Employees International Union on May 8, 2010? (2010-05-29)
... that the same cast members starred in Robert Altman's 1982 Broadway and film versions of Ed Graczyk's Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean? (2010-05-23)
... that Antony Grey, who died at the end of April, became Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental? (2010-05-18)
... that Herculine Barbin, a collection of memoirs written by a hermaphrodite, inspired Jeffrey Eugenides to write Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction? (2010-05-16)
... that Barbara Hammer's Tender Fictions, one of a documentary trilogy on LGBT histories, focuses on the "constructedness" of the self? (2010-05-15)
... that in coverage of a charity event for Darfur, the blog Gawker referred to attendee Micah Jesse, internet gossip blogger, as a "publicistgay"? (2010-05-03)
... that Alex Blackwell captained the Australian women's cricket team to eight consecutive ODI wins over New Zealand? (2010-04-28)
... that Nick Burd's debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary was a New York Times "notable book" for 2009 and won the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category? (2010-04-25)
... that Tearoom Trade, a study by sociologist Laud Humphreys of homosexual acts taking place in public toilets, caused a major debate on ethics in observation? (2010-04-04)
... that as Emmerdale's Aaron Livesy, Danny Miller was involved in a gay storyline with his real-life flatmate Adam Thomas? (2010-04-04)
... that the American television show Glee was written with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies? (2010-04-01)
... that in March 2010, Australia became the first country in the world to officially recognise a 'non-specified' gender, when Norrie May-Welby was found to be neither a man nor a woman? (2010-03-26)
... that actress Edith Craig, dramatist Christabel Marshall and artist Clare Atwood lived in a ménage à trois from 1916 until Craig's death in 1947? (2010-03-19)
... that actor Samuel Page of the AMC drama series Mad Men started a string of ongoing guest appearances in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives, starting with the episode "The Chase"? (2010-03-18)
... that veteran Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne recognised Brian Jennings' ability to pronounce words well? (2010-03-17)
... that Progressive era social reformer Katharine Bement Davis did research on the sexual practices of females in New York City? (2010-03-13)
... that Andy Hartzell created his graphic novel Fox Bunny Funny without a single line of text? (2010-03-12)
... that Cruel and Unusual is a documentary about transsexual women incarcerated in men's prisons? (2010-03-04)
... that Drew Barrymore, Wanda Sykes and Cynthia Nixon are to be honored at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards this year? (2010-03-04)
... that when Dana Delany and Julie Benz shared a kiss scene for the Desperate Housewives episode "Lovely", Delaney noticed "crew members on the set that were never there before"? (2010-03-03)
... that Tony Award-winning producer Richard Barr took part in the infamous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds? (2010-02-25)
... that John Scagliotti's 2003 film Dangerous Living was the first documentary about the experiences of gay and lesbian people in the non-Western world? (2010-02-16)
... that Somali-Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself? (2010-02-14)
... that jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano? (2010-02-06)
... that the Emerald Warriors are Ireland's first primarily gay rugby team? (2010-01-31)
... that actress Naya Rivera from the musical comedy series Glee had a talent agent before she was even one year old? (2010-01-18)
... that Irish film critic Michael Dwyer attended every Cannes Film Festival from 1982 until 2009, months before his death? (2010-01-13)
... that Joseph Stalin imposed a tax on childlessness, which forced bachelors and childless families to pay an additional 6% income tax until the collapse of the Soviet Union? (2010-01-11)
... that same-sex marriage under United States tribal jurisdictions has been allowed in the Coquille Tribe of Oregon despite the state's defense of marriage amendment? (2010-01-09)
... that the European Court of Human Rights in Smith and Grady v UK found that the discharge of personnel from the British Army on the basis of sexual orientation was a breach of their right to a private life? (2010-01-07)
... that the Council on Religion and the Homosexual once held a fundraiser dance despite intimidation from San Francisco police? (2010-01-01)
... that Jody Trautwein, who attempted to convert Sasha Baron Cohen's character Brüno from his gay lifestyle, recently ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama? (2009-12-12)
... that fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez discovered Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, and Jerry Hall? (2009-12-11)
... that the gay pornography film studio Corbin Fisher offers contracted actors health benefits and a 401(k) plan? (2009-12-10)
... that tabletop Role-playing game pioneer Paul Jaquays was also a designer for the Quake series of video games and co-founder of The Guildhall at SMU video game university? (2009-12-08)
... that child actor Joey Pollari was 15 years old when he appeared in the Disney XD film, Skyrunners? (2009-12-07)
... that Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner told readers he was a transsexual in a 2007 essay entitled "Old Mike, new Christine"? (2009-12-04)
... that African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths? (2009-11-27)
... that reviews for the pilot episode of Modern Family compared it to Arrested Development and Married...With Children? (2009-10-26)
... that the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco houses one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of academic sexological and erotological resources? (2009-10-26)
... that homosexual novelist Myron Brinig wrote several novels about homosexuality, yet he was closeted all his life? (2009-10-19)
... that, having begun as an affiliate of the fascist Iron Guard, Romanian author Ion Negoițescu became a noted anti-fascist, before defying the communist regime as an openly homosexual dissident? (2009-10-11)
... that author Tom Spanbauer became so stressed out while writing the LGBT novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon that he passed out in Penn Station? (2009-10-03)
... that Emmy Award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh described one scene in Talk to Me where a teacher commits adultery with her 15-year-old pupil as "not so much about sex as about love"? (2009-09-30)
... that "Pawnee Zoo", an episode of the American television comedy Parks and Recreation, features a same-sex marriage between two penguins? (2009-09-29)
... that Dirty Diaries is a collection of Swedish pornographic feminist short films that sparked controversy because it was financed with tax money? (2009-09-26)
... that ABC aired the Marcus Welby, M.D. episode "The Outrage" despite having been zapped for the earlier episode "The Other Martin Loring"? (2009-09-22)
... that the AIDS activist group ACT UP twice shut down production of the Midnight Caller episode "After It Happened", believing that it would encourage vigilantism against people with AIDS? (2009-09-20)
... that the machinima-based music video Dance, Voldo, Dance was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006? (2009-09-19)
... that lawyer Albert L. Gordon, a heterosexual who became a gay rights activist after his son came out, successfully challenged a 1915 California law that criminalized oral sex? (2009-09-16)
... that Henry Gerber founded the first gay rights organization in the United States in 1924, only to see it destroyed in less than a year following accusations that it was a "strange sex cult"? (2009-09-05)
... that in 1987, 13 years after its citizens voted to repeal the city's gay rights ordinance, Boulder, Colorado, became the only American city to adopt a gay rights law through popular referendum? (2009-09-04)
... that George Quaintance was an American artist whose "idealized, strongly homoerotic" depictions of men appeared in physique magazines? (2009-09-04)
... that the music video for Pirates of the Mississippi's 1991 single "Feed Jake" was believed by some members of the gay community to have a homosexual theme? (2009-08-30)
... that Taking Woodstock, Elliot Tiber's memoir about the famed 1969 music festival, was the basis for the Ang Lee film of the same title? (2009-08-29)
... that 97% of the letters from viewers of The Rejected, the first documentary about homosexuality to air on American television, were positive? (2009-08-28)
... that Freeheld is an Academy Award-winning documentary by Cynthia Wade that follows a New Jersey detective fighting for the right to pass on her pension to her female domestic partner? (2009-08-24)
... that according to LGBT interpretations, the Hindu fire god Agni's role in accepting sacrifices is paralleled by his accepting semen from other gods like Shiva and Soma? (2009-08-22)
... that Justin Fashanu was the first professional association football player to come out as gay? (2009-08-21)
... that the theme of pederasty in the 1977 German film Die Konsequenz was so controversial that one regional broadcaster refused to relay the transmission signal? (2009-08-20)
... that rapper Lil Wayne is said to have brought the phrase "no homo" into the mainstream of hip hop? (2009-08-18)
... that for his 2009 film Lucky Bastard, writer/director Everett Lewis drew upon his own relationship experience with a crystal meth addict? (2009-08-16)
... that in the Skins episode "Pandora", comedian David Baddiel guest-starred as the lover of his real-life girlfriend's character? (2009-08-04)
... that a June 5, 1981, report by Dr. Joel Weisman in MMWR about five gay men with an unusual illness is recognized as the start of the AIDS pandemic and "the first report on AIDS in the medical literature"? (2009-08-04)
... that a plot on the American soap opera One Life to Live featuring sexually confused police officer Oliver Fish invited controversy when an actress objecting to the storyline was replaced? (2009-08-03)
... that early audience members of Dublin's LGBT film festival Gaze risked being arrested as homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland? (2009-08-02)
... that Immigration Equality has been the main advocate for the Uniting American Families Act to give same-sex couples the same status as heterosexuals under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act? (2009-07-30)
... that Australian musician Monique Brumby (pictured), who has won two ARIA Awards, was selected for the national under-19 women's soccer team? (2009-07-29)
... that scenes in a "desolate, shabby" psychological clinic in the Skins episode "JJ" were shot at the show's own offices? (2009-07-20)
... that the direct action group Queer Liberaction staged same-sex kiss-ins and a marriage ceremony to draw attention to same-sex marriage issues? (2009-07-18)
... that Dutch writer Hans Warren (1921–2001) published 21 volumes of his Secret Diary, a diary he kept until three days before his death? (2009-07-17)
... that in non-sexual images of two women, the presence of the Erotes (Anteros statue pictured), a group of winged gods and demi-gods associated with love and sex, has been interpreted to indicate a homoerotic subtext? (2009-07-15)
... that homosexuality has been labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois decadence? (2009-07-15)
... that genderbending Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu, inspiration for M. Butterfly, had a sexual relationship with a French diplomatic worker who believed that he was a she and had given birth to their "son"? (2009-07-13)
... that, while filming Skins episode "Katie and Emily", actress Kathryn Prescott genuinely punched her co-star by accident during a fight scene? (2009-07-11)
... that in 1975 professional wrestlers Sandy Parker and Jean Antoine had the first legal women's wrestling match in Oregon in 50 years? (2009-07-10)
... that a lake scene in the Skins episode "Naomi" had to be shortened when one of the actors was suspected to have hypothermia? (2009-07-09)
... that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"? (2009-07-04)
... that in 1973, A. J. Antoon was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009? (2009-07-04)
... that Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome? (2009-07-03)
... that the Veterans Benevolent Association, an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge? (2009-06-29)
... that the 1749 pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home blamed influences from France and Italy for promoting effeminacy and homosexual contact among British gentlemen? (2009-06-29)
... that although the Stonewall riots in 1969 are generally recognized as the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement, there were over a dozen pre-Stonewall LGBT rights actions in the US (Barbara Gittings pictured picketing)? (2009-06-29)
... that pioneering lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster"? (2009-06-29)
... that the poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman, shortly before his own death in 1994? (2009-06-28)
... that the organizers of San Francisco's Trans March rerouted the event through the city's Mission District to draw attention to violence against transgender people? (2009-06-28)
... that the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA, to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation? (2009-06-28)
... that despite having organized the first LGBT rights demonstration in the US, activist Randy Wicker denounced the Stonewall riots, saying that "throwing rocks through windows doesn't open doors"? (2009-06-28)
... that the LGBT rights group One Iowa held public forums during the landmark case Varnum v. Brien to discuss the importance of marriage equality (pro same-sex marriage rally pictured)? (2009-06-28)
... that the publication of a rare memoir by concentration camp survivor Heinz Heger has been described as a turning point in the gay community's adoption of the pink triangle symbol (pictured)? (2009-06-28)
... that half of the regular advertisers for the ABC series thirtysomething pulled out of the episode "Strangers", costing the network some US$1.5 million, because it showed two men in bed together? (2009-06-14)
... that English actor Harry Andrews played the role of Laertes in the final production at the Lyceum Theatre before it closed in 1939? (2009-06-11)
... that a sex scandal in Boise, Idaho, in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals? (2009-06-09)
... that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful"? (2009-06-07)
... that Torvald Tu´s musical comedy Kjærleik på Lykteland from 1923 was one of the greatest stage successes at Det Norske Teatret? (2009-06-03)
... that during action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning"? (2009-05-27)
... that "The Snowman" was likely the product of Hans Christian Andersen's homoerotic ardor for Harald Scharff, a ballet dancer at the Royal Danish Theatre? (2009-05-24)
... that playwright Larry Kramer called Rodger McFarlane, the first paid executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, someone who "did more for the gay world than any person has ever done"? (2009-05-23)
... that Catherina Margaretha Linck is the last European known to have been executed for lesbianism? (2009-05-21)
... that in an annual festival in Koovagam, India, eunuchs and transvestites ritually marry the Hindu god Aravan (statue pictured)? (2009-05-17)
... that 26-year-old Vanessa Rousso (pictured) is among the top five females in career earnings in poker history? (2009-05-14)
... that "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass? (2009-05-12)
... that the film version of the play Norman, Is That You? substitutes an African-American family for a Jewish family? (2009-04-15)
... that AfterEllen.com praised the yaoi manga series The Moon and the Sandals for illustrating "the challenges gay men face in Japanese society"? (2009-04-14)
... that the South Park episode "Fishsticks" spoofed rapper Kanye West who said that his feelings were hurt by the show? (2009-04-14)
... that concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006? (2009-04-04)
... that the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data? (2009-03-21)
... that the relationship between two gay men at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in Robert Chesley's erotic and emotional play Jerker takes place entirely over the telephone? (2009-03-15)
... that author Jonathan Krohn gave a two-minute speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at age thirteen? (2009-03-10)
... that Hawaii House Bill 444 would allow civil unions in the state of Hawaii? (2009-03-03)
... that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture? (2009-02-28)
... that though it never made it on the air, Faze TV was planned as the first television channel in the United Kingdom specifically targeted towards gay men? (2009-02-28)
... that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives? (2009-02-27)
... that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement? (2009-02-24)
... that Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is a live album recorded from Rufus Wainwright's June 2006 tribute concerts to legendary singer Judy Garland? (2009-02-22)
... that the seafaring adventures of Anne Jane Thornton (pictured) inspired the ballad The Female Sailor Bold? (2009-02-16)
... that Lucian Piane created a satirical techno remix, "Bale Out", utilizing a verbal rant actor Christian Bale made on the set of Terminator Salvation? (2009-02-13)
... that Joan Snyder, a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, has had her paintings exhibited at Jewish Museum in New York? (2009-02-03)
... that female impersonator T. C. Jones played murderous transvestites in both a 1965 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a 1967 episode of The Wild Wild West? (2009-01-31)
... that when NBC pulled "Steve Burdick", an AIDS-themed episode of the medical drama Lifestories, gay and AIDS activists accused the network of fearing advertiser backlash? (2009-01-24)
... that African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States? (2009-01-11)
... that The Pittsburgh Courier crusaded against the blue discharge, calling it "a vicious instrument that should not be perpetrated against the American Soldier"? (2009-01-11)
... that after the murder of Robert Eric Wone, his widow was represented pro bono by prospective United States Attorney General Eric Holder? (2009-01-08)
... that according to Just Detention International, 67 percent of all LGBT people in prison report being assaulted? (2009-01-07)
... that Moscow Gay Pride has been described as "satanic" and likely to increase the spread of HIV/AIDS by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov (pictured)? (2008-12-22)
... that Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention? (2008-12-14)
... that Vanessa Redgrave's portrayal of transsexual Renée Richards in the 1986 biopic Second Serve was praised as embodying "every internal contradiction of the polymorphously perverse"? (2008-12-11)
... that the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club developed some of the earliest safe sex education material in the United States? (2008-12-07)
... that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office? (2008-12-06)
... that Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television? (2008-12-02)
... that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"? (2008-11-29)
... that openly gay actor Robert La Tourneaux considered his role as the gay hustler in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band to be the "kiss of death" for his career? (2008-11-26)
... that when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite? (2008-11-24)
... that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree? (2008-11-22)
... that the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT-interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy? (2008-11-22)
... that after initially deciding not to air the Roseanne episode "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" because it included Mariel Hemingway kissing Roseanne Barr, ABC promoted it as "the lesbian kiss episode"? (2008-11-22)
... that Anita Bryant's participation in Save Our Children, a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career? (2008-11-20)
... that veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area? (2008-11-18)
... that Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany? (2008-11-17)
... that the first same-sex kiss on an American soap opera was between fictional characters Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery in 2003, who were also American soap opera's first lesbian couple? (2008-11-12)
... that Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love? (2008-11-12)
... that horror novelist Anne Rice has cited the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter as an inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction? (2008-11-08)
... that Halloween in the Castro, San Francisco's gay village, started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002? (2008-10-31)
... that David J. Skal and Elias Savada wrote the first book-length biography of Tod Browning, who directed the films Dracula and Freaks? (2008-10-31)
... that the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality? (2008-10-26)
... that George Gordon Byron drew up a will leaving Nicolò Giraud, his young companion while in Greece, £7,000, but later changed his mind? (2008-10-18)
... that Bruce Voeller coined the term "acquired immune deficiency syndrome"? (2008-10-16)
... that Olivia Colman bonded the cast of Beautiful People by arranging a visit from a mobile blood donor unit? (2008-10-16)
... that writer-director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school? (2008-10-07)
... that American film producer Sandy Stern's producing partner is R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe? (2008-10-03)
... that Buddy Fletcher′s first experience with risk-reward tradeoff came from developing a strategy to bet on dog racing? (2008-09-17)
... that Isis King is the first transwoman to be amongst the 14 finalists on the fashion model reality series America's Next Top Model? (2008-09-15)
... that Zambian laws concerning homosexuality have largely remained unchanged since the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1964? (2008-08-12)
... that novelist Lucy Jane Bledsoe, a Stonewall Book Award winner and four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, primarily writes LGBT literature? (2008-08-06)
... that Diverse Harmony is the first gay-straight alliance chorus in the United States? (2008-08-04)
... that Dustin Lance Black is the only writer on Big Love, a drama about Mormon fundamentalists, who was raised in the Mormon faith? (2008-07-30)
... that non-heterosexual is an umbrella term, describing people who do not or no longer identify as heterosexual? (2008-07-29)
... that transwoman actor Judiel Nieva was once sought out as a healer and visionary? (2008-07-23)
... that namsadang is a Korean itinerant troupe during the Joseon Dynasty that performed acrobatics (example pictured), dancing, and playing like a circus? (2008-07-14)
... that gender identity disorder in children is a diagnosis formally recognized in 1980 that often involves controversial therapeutic intervention? (2008-07-08)
... that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"? (2008-07-02)
... that all four stars of Starved, an FX sitcom about eating disorders, struggled with eating disorders themselves, a fact unknown to producers until after casting? (2008-07-01)
... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors? (2008-06-29)
... that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement"? (2008-06-26)
... that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame? (2008-06-04)
... that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock? (2008-06-01)
... that Action Hyacinth was an operation of the Polish communist police, carried out in the years 1985–1987, whose purpose was to create a national database of Polish homosexuals? (2008-05-24)
... that some of the fingers of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (pictured), still with rings on them, were found in a building of the Kremlin? (2008-05-24)
... that Equality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity? (2008-05-21)
... that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple having sex as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history? (2008-05-15)
... that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian? (2008-05-02)
... that Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus, which prohibited homosexual acts between men, was repealed just eight days before a May 29, 1998 deadline set by the Council of Europe? (2008-04-17)
... that Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France? (2008-04-11)
... that Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay lead cleric? (2008-04-10)
... that Charles J. O'Byrne, Secretary to Governor David Paterson of New York, is a former priest who officiated at the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996 and presided over their funeral in 1999? (2008-04-08)
... that Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso, even though he was four years older? (2008-04-04)
... that, inspired by Sylvester Stallone's experience selling the script for Rocky, actor/screenwriter J. P. Davis refused to sell his script for the film Fighting Tommy Riley unless he was guaranteed to play the lead? (2008-03-31)
... that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality? (2008-03-19)
... that Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"? (2008-03-10)
... that Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery? (2008-03-05)
... that Randi Weingarten, the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers, has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business? (2008-03-01)
... that the Israeli documentary Paper Dolls followed the lives of five health care providers from the Philippines who perform as drag queens? (2008-02-25)
... that after suing to gain Marc Hall permission to take his boyfriend to a Catholic high school's prom, David Corbett was appointed Canadian Superior Justice? (2008-02-25)
... that the fictional character "Thirteen" in the FOX medical drama House is referred to as such on the show's daily call sheets to further propagate an inside joke within the show's narrative? (2008-02-15)
... that the kiss between Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer on As the World Turns is the first kiss between gay male characters on a daytime American soap opera? (2008-02-15)
... that director Li Yu's Fish and Elephant is often considered the first lesbian-themed film to come out of mainland China? (2008-02-06)
... that University of Michigan All-American softball player Jenny Allard has led Harvard University to its first four Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995? (2008-02-04)
... that in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner, the United States Tax Court is presented for the first time with the issue of whether sex reassignment surgery is tax deductible? (2008-01-21)
... that despite dropping out of a screenwriting course at university before graduating, Christopher B. Landon went on to write the box office hit film Disturbia? (2008-01-13)
... that the 1929 film The Surprise of a Knight is the earliest known gay, hardcore pornographic film in American cinematic history? (2008-01-07)
... that the 1920 French film Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly is the earliest known hardcore pornographic film to depict bisexual and homosexual intercourse? (2008-01-06)
... that after Bernard Natan directed and acted in hardcore heterosexual and bisexual pornographic films from 1920 to 1927, by 1929 he owned the giant French movie studio Pathé and later helped develop the anamorphic film lens? (2008-01-05)
... that LPI Media is the largest publisher of gay and lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year? (2008-01-04)
... that gay screenwriter Marco Pennette was outed in front of his parents on the People's Choice Awards red carpet by a colleague who asked him about his boyfriend? (2008-01-02)
... that Judy Garland (pictured) is considered a gay icon for her "wonderfully over-the-top" film characters including her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in the The Wizard of Oz? (2008-01-02)
... that eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history? (2007-12-31)
... that Enriqueta Favez (pictured), a Swiss woman, studied medicine and served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s and married a local woman? (2007-12-23)
... that theatre director David Warren landed a directing role on Desperate Housewives after giving the show's creator, Marc Cherry, his first acting job twenty years prior? (2007-12-23)
... that the very first news article on what became known as AIDS appeared in the New York Native, a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City? (2007-12-21)
... that The Love of Siam director Chukiat Sakweerakul (pictured) intentionally sought to downplay the 2007 Thai film's gay love story in marketing materials, in hopes of the film reaching a broader audience? (2007-12-18)
... that gender-bending party promoter Andre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots? (2007-12-08)
... that R Family Vacations offered the first all-gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children? (2007-11-29)
... that more than 200 species of mammals (male kob pictured) display homosexual behavior including oral sex, genital stimulation, and urolagnia? (2007-11-22)
... that some birds, including flamingos, display homosexual behavior? (2007-11-22)
... that fruit as a slang term developed in London with the costermongers and later in Cockney rhyming slang and Polari, with most variations becoming pejorative against gay men who have since reclaimed usages? (2007-11-21)
Casey Donovan (actor) (article's talk page missing blurb) (2007-11-07)
Paul Oscar (article's talk page missing blurb) (2007-11-06)
... that though it started as a block party in 1975, Capital Pride in Washington, D.C., is now the fourth-largest gay pride parade and festival in the United States? (2007-11-04)
... that only after five years since its founding in 1991, Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States? (2007-11-01)
... that two male lovers of German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder committed suicide? (2007-10-31)
... that the Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most major AIDS clinics in the US? (2007-10-30)
... that Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news program Gay USA? (2007-10-30)
... that the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero, whose protagonist is a gay teenager? (2007-10-15)
... that Joe Keenan's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007? (2007-10-12)
... that Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride parades, Dyke Marches, and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics, since 1976? (2007-10-09)
... that English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly, landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale, for 19 years? (2007-09-11)
... that actress, writer and producer Michelle Paradise created the television series Exes and Ohs without an agent? (2007-08-30)
... that the first edition of Patience and Sarah, winner of the 1971 Stonewall Book Award, was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable? (2007-08-22)
Murders of Nireah Johnson and Brandie Coleman (article's talk page missing blurb) (2007-08-20)
... that the Web encyclopedia glbtq.com has almost 2,000 entries categorized into Arts, Literature, and History and Social Sciences—and was called "the Britanni queer Encyclopedia" by The Advocate? (2007-08-16)
... that the French lawyer and historian Nicolas Chorier was also a writer of erotic fiction (work pictured)? (2007-08-06)
... that 17.5% of the murders in Colombia in 1993 were vigilante "social cleansings" of gays, transvestites, and prostitutes? (2007-08-06)
... that any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an adult interdependent relationship in Alberta, just like spouses in a common-law marriage? (2007-08-02)
... that when Nizah Morris, an African American transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a homicide, but the Philadelphia police took over a month to do so? (2007-07-31)
... that Thai actor Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film, Insee thong? (2007-07-30)
... that the homosexual relationship between Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on All My Children after the series fans demanded it? (2007-07-29)
... that Count Vladimir Lambsdorff managed to talk Nicholas II of Russia out of the projected Russian-German alliance against Britain? (2007-07-27)
... that the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers? (2007-07-21)
... that the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway, the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway, could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida? (2007-06-02)
... that a slogan of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire is "Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous" (Workers of the world, caress yourselves!)? (2007-05-27)
... that 47 people were killed in a gun turret explosion onboard USS Iowa on April 19, 1989? (2007-05-15)
... that U.S. President Bush has indicated he may use the third veto of his Presidency on the Matthew Shepard Act? (2007-05-09)
... that Marc-André Raffalovich, a French poet, writer on homosexuality, and patron of the arts, had a life-long relationship with John Gray, the purported model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray? (2007-05-07)
... that MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"? (2007-04-29)
... that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s? (2007-04-28)
... that gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios? (2007-04-27)
... that the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging? (2007-04-13)
... that a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, born "Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender? (2007-03-30)
... that the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus, founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere? (2007-03-23)
... that Steve Stanton, Largo, Florida's city manager since 1993, was fired for pursuing sex reassignment? (2007-03-08)
... that Lady Una Troubridge introduced the French writer Colette to English readers? (2007-03-07)
... that how patients with gender identity disorder are classified over the course of their medical treatments? (2007-03-02)
... that George Cecil Ives created the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society to promote gay rights, and left 122 volumes of diaries and 45 of scrapbooks? (2007-03-01)
... that on December 20, 2006, two members of the Italian Radical Party controversially introduced two homosexual figures to the nativity scene at the Italian Congress? (2007-02-26)
... that Oscar-winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project, which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States? (2007-02-22)
... that the view that Jesus and John were lovers, considered a blasphemy, evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? (2007-02-20)
... that after one group he founded was banned, the neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen began a policy of regularly starting up new organizations in order to confuse the authorities? (2007-02-19)
... that archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood? (2007-02-14)
... that ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more? (2007-02-04)
... that a banjee (pictured) is a young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in thuggish urban fashion? (2007-02-01)
... that feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws? (2007-01-31)
... that twenty-seven U.S. states (pictured) have adopted constitutional amendments to prevent same-sex marriage or civil unions? (2007-01-19)
... that at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser? (2007-01-19)
... that Ian Harvey, a Conservative junior minister in the United Kingdom, resigned his seat in 1958 after a sex scandal? (2007-01-09)
... that the McCarthy-style interrogations of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students from Florida universities between 1956 and 1966? (2007-01-06)
... that Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media? (2007-01-03)
... that in 1920 a Secret Court, headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals, resulting in nine expulsions? (2006-12-19)
... that Kalos inscriptions found on antique Attic vases (pictured), usually contain the author's declarations of love for the young man represented in the vase-painting? (2006-12-09)
... that Pauline Cushman (pictured), an actress and Union Army spy during the American Civil War, was caught posing as a Confederate soldier, but escaped hanging by three days? (2006-12-08)
... that the first gay mass-market paperback focused on situational homosexuality and male rape in prison? (2006-12-05)
... that Willi Ninja's distinctive dance style was an inspiration for Madonna's 1990 song "Vogue"? (2006-09-08)
... that the Gay Football Supporters Network recently voted Steven Gerrard top of their annual "Lust List" for the second year running? (2006-08-31)
... that Archduchess Isabella Maria of Bourbon-Parma (pictured) was in love with her sister-in-law, Archduchess Maria Christina? (2006-08-09)
... that during the time of Scandinavism, Hans Christian Andersen wrote a poem called Jeg er en Skandinav which together with the later added melody could have become the National Anthem of a unified Scandinavian nation? (2006-08-09)
... that Archibald Hall was the oldest prisoner on the original list of British murderers who were issued with whole life tariffs by the Government? (2006-08-04)
... that openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience? (2006-07-10)
... that habitual con artist Amy Bock impersonated a man in early-20th century New Zealand in order to marry and defraud her landlady's daughter? (2006-07-01)
... that the GayFest of 2005 was the first LGBT pride parade in Romania? (2006-06-02)
... that the movie The Iron Ladies is based on a real-life team of transsexuals and homosexuals that won the Thai national volleyball tournament? (2006-05-14)
... that the play Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson explores the disillusionment of former American anti-war activists in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate? (2006-03-23)
... that the Vietnamese "poet of love" Xuân Diệu wrote a poem about the love affair between the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, fueling speculations that he himself was homosexual? (2006-03-20)
... that between 1922 and 1926, Soviet Russia was the only country in Europe where homosexual relations between consenting adults were legal? (2006-02-21)
... that the physician Marie Equi (pictured) became an anarchist after being attacked by police while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World? (2006-02-01)
... that prolific designer Adrian created costumes for over 200 films during his career at MGM? (2006-01-16)
... that the nature of the female orgasm is a field of research for academics studying female sexuality? (2006-01-10)
... that Nadezhda Durova was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars, started as a private in 1807 and retired with the rank of stabs-rotmistr in 1816? (2005-11-24)
... that Shakespeare's sexuality is sometimes debated? (2005-10-26)
... that Francis Leon predated RuPaul's fame as an American one-named female impersonator by over 100 years? (2005-10-26)
... that Torchwood will be the first spin-off from Doctor Who since an unsuccessful pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981? (2005-10-21)
... that Simeon Solomon was a British painter who regularly had works displayed at the Royal Academy in the 1860s? (2005-08-31)
... that Leo Abse (born 1917) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom? (2005-05-30)
... that Scottish cyclist Robert Millar finished fourth in the 1984 Tour de France, the best ever finish by a British cyclist? (2005-05-13)
... that by passing as a man, Isobel Gunn became in 1806 the first woman of European descent employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land? (2005-05-07)
... that the television movie Born Innocent is credited with airing the first all-female rape scene on American television? (2004-12-06)
... that Australian painter Jeffrey Smart initially wanted to become an architect instead of an artist? (2004-11-23)
... that actor David Manners lived for 67 years after starring in the 1931 film Dracula, but never watched it? (2004-11-15)
... that sex determination in sports is no longer practiced at the Olympic Games? (2004-07-20)
... that the Germanenorden had an early influence on mysticism in Nazi Germany? (2004-07-20)
... that the Homomonument in Amsterdam commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation? (2004-05-08)
... that a cult in Mexico venerates "Santa Muerte" (pictured), who is condemned by the local Catholic Church? (2009-10-31)
... that many Mexicans pray to a figure known as Saint Death? (2004-04-29)
... that the "Pardoner's Prologue and Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death? (2004-04-13)
... that the author Pai Hsien-yung's father was Kuomintang general Pai Chung-hsi? (2004-03-06)

Picture of the day pictures edit

Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox (2016-03-26)
Jean Cocteau b Meurisse 1923 (2017-07-05)
Jane Addams - Bain News Service (2019-09-06)
Bacon by Gray 257 (2019-10-28)
Ivor Novello (2020-01-15)
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron by Richard Westall (2) (2020-01-22)
Bessie Smith (1936) by Carl Van Vechten (2020-09-26)
Billy Strayhorn, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948 (William P. Gottlieb 08211) (2020-11-29)
Chelsea Manning on 18 May 2017 (2020-12-17)
Peter Tatchell - Red Wall - 8by10 - 2016-10-15 (2021-01-25)
Sally Ride (1984) (2021-05-26)
Camp - Notes on Fashion at the Met - Burberry rainbow cape (73854) (2021-12-14)
Alice Park - Records of the National Woman's Party (2022-02-02)
Eva Le Gallienne (mnwp.275003, cropped restoration) (2022-10-12)
Mademoiselle Maupin de l'Opéra (Julie d'Aubigny) (2022-11-25)
Sándor Vay - Restoration (2023-05-23)
Ethel Smyth (2024-05-24)
Don Lemon at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes (2026-03-01)