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The gates of Nobuko Yoshiya's house-turned-museum.

Kamakura, Japan

Yoshiya Nobuko Memorial Museum

The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.

Vienna, Austria

Ampelpärchen

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Reviving—and Reinventing—the Magic of Khmer Classical Dance

Cambodia's first LGBTQ dance company has big dreams.

Lizzie Philip December 10, 2018

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The Inspiring Story of Cambodia's First LGBTQ Dance Company

Alfred Parkinson and Fred Schoonmaker stand outside an old Union Pacific Railroad caboose, which they used temporarily using as their home (from the <em>Bohemian Bugle</em>, November 1986).

How Two Men Tried to Start a Hate-Free ‘Gay Town’ in the Nevada Desert

Stonewall Park was a mid-1980s dream that never quite came to fruition.

Natasha Frost August 29, 2018

Gay Liberation Monument.

New York, New York

Gay Liberation

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Alice Austen House.

Staten Island, New York

Alice Austen House

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

A late-in-life photo of Mary Jane Rathbun.

Remembering 'Brownie Mary,' San Francisco's Marijuana Pioneer

She baked thousands of pot brownies for AIDS patients.

Anne Ewbank June 12, 2018

The cover of Marijane Meaker's 1952 novel <em>Spring Fire</em>, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies and was published under a pseudonym.

The Lesbian Pulp Fiction That Saved Lives

How potboilers and pin-ups showed gay and bisexual women they were not alone.

Natasha Frost May 22, 2018

<em>The Gay Cookbook</em> was a culinary trailblazer.

Years Before Stonewall, a Chef Published the First Gay Cookbook

It was the first to be marketed to gay men.

Anne Ewbank May 7, 2018

This image, of the 7th century saints Sergius and Bacchus, was considered by the historian John Boswell to be a depiction of an example of an early Christian same-sex union.

A Modern Controversy Over Ancient Homosexuality

In 1980, a gay historian’s book about Catholic Church-approved homosexuality enraged both gays and Catholics.

Natasha Frost March 2, 2018

Joe Cino, middle, in the re-opened Caffe Cino, some months after a 1965 fire.

The Gay Coffeehouse Where Off-Off Broadway Theater Was Born

Remembering the Caffe Cino of 31 Cornelia Street, New York.

Natasha Frost February 9, 2018

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Rainbow Crosswalks

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

Like men's club houses, molly houses were also places people went simply to socialize, gossip, drink and smoke.

How the 18th-Century Gay Bar Survived and Thrived in a Deadly Environment

Welcome to the molly house.

Natasha Frost December 8, 2017

A tea-dance circa 1926.

Tea Dance

The surprisingly subversive history of dancing over afternoon tea.

Berthe, later Berthold, Buttgereit's travel pass makes no mention of tranvestitism. But "B.B. is not forbidden to wear man’s clothes" was written on the back.

The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment

The radical days of the Weimar Republic, just before the rise of Nazism.

Natasha Frost November 2, 2017

Photographer Blaine Dixon befriended activist Pat Carey, who was, he says, "a tireless Mother Teresa to the runaway teens" of the area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This image, of three men in makeshift loincloths on Polk Street, dates from 1980.

31 days of halloween

See Two Decades of San Francisco’s Wildest Queer Halloween Parties

The rise and demise of the night of the living dead.

Natasha Frost October 16, 2017

Another, very similar, version of the portrait, from around 1625, was produced by Rubens's workshop.

A Portrait of James I's 'Husband' Has Reappeared in Glasgow

"I desire only to live in this world for your sake," the king wrote to him.

Natasha Frost September 25, 2017