In 1892, Oscar Wilde asked friends to wear green carnations to the opening of Lady Windermere’s Fan. The flower became tied to his circle, though historians still debate what he meant by it. That uncertainty runs through the history of queer…
MONTREAL, October 29, 2026 — Picture it: 9:30 on a Friday morning in April 1967. An atomic clock counts down to zero, the gates swing open, and somewhere in a crowd of more than 300,000 people, a 41-year-old jazz drummer from Chicago named Al Carter becomes…
A new book reveals the fascinating true tale of Leon Belmont, a gender rebel and “romantic sensation” of the late 1800s. Drawings of Leon Belmont (left) and his former girlfriend, Sarah Brackett, in Illustrated Police News, November 20, 1880. Gender variance has existed…
From 1976: The Sheraton-Spokane Hotel was expecting a crowd of between 1,000 and 1,400 to attend the Halloween Coronation Ball. This was noteworthy, because it was sponsored by the Inland Empire Society of the Arts – “subtitled the Spokane Gay Community” – and it was…
Delaware unveiled a historical marker in honor of Poodle Beach. The beach's lineage as a gay destination traces back to a lesbian athlete. In the late 1980s into the mid-’90s, I was in a straight beach house in Dewey Beach, Del., about…
October is LGBTQ+ History Month, which means it’s the perfect excuse to do what we love most: talk about the incredible queer Jews who have shaped history. From medieval poets to Eurovision winners, queer and trans Jewish people have been…
CGTN - EXPLORE MORE English Español Français العربية Русский Documentary CCTV+ - World World Asia-Pacific Middle East Europe Americas Africa Helen Foster Snow's legacy: The unbreakable spirit of the Long March In 1937, American journalist Helen Foster Snow journeyed into northern Shaanxi to…
Gregory Hinton (Bus’77) is a California-based author, historian and founder of Out West, a national museum program series exploring the contributions of LGBTQ communities to Western American history. By discussing these cultural themes and how they connect to communities through…
Robert Conn and Loyd Powell show off a framed version of the iconic Mary's Naturally mural on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. Pieces of Mary's, the famous gay bar that closed in 2009, are some of the Heart of Leather Foundation's most important pieces.
For more than a century, it's been one of the first things you spot in the Montreal skyline after dark. Whether you're driving in over a bridge, landing at the airport or just looking up from your balcony, the glowing…
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