One hundred years ago, on December 10, 1924, the first legally recognized U.S. gay rights organization was incorporated: the Society for Human Rights, located in Chicago. The founder was Henry Gerber, ...
One hundred years ago, queerness was illegal in just about every way in the U.S. There were laws against cross-dressing and sodomy, being trans or queer was classified as a mental illness, and it was ...
What happens to a dream undone? For many Americans, the progress of gay rights over the past quarter century was one of the country’s greatest achievements. Even as social change on other fronts ...
When President Trump attended a production of “Les Misérables” in Washington last week, there were four men dressed in women’s clothes seated in the audience. Yes, they put on a daring show of drag ...
They’re here, they’re queer — and they’re not invited. Trump-loving LGBT conservatives say they are marching to the tune of their own drum after finding themselves ostracized by the increasingly left ...
Lawmakers and activists gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court on Wednesday to commemorate the 100th birthday of the late LGBTQ rights pioneer Frank Kameny. The building was shrouded in ...
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Americans’ embrace of same-sex rights and acceptance of gay Americans has been one of the steadiest trends in recent political history, with support for same-sex marriage gradually rising from less ...
On the day in 1987 when Robert Bernstein’s college-age daughter told him she was gay, he stayed up late writing a letter that she found waiting for her on the kitchen table the next morning. “Dear ...
Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee in New Hampshire, would be the first openly gay man in the Senate. On the campaign trail ...
Often, LGBTQ history is a history embedded in cities. But, historian Jonathan Coleman writes, some strains of thought feeding into the early gay rights movement came from completely different places, ...