The online archive of global LGBTQ+ history
  • Explore Queer heritage through multimedia stories,
    powerful oral histories, and our trivia game, Queery!

  • Barbara
    Jordan1936-1996
  • 6 US States Mandate LGBTQ+ History for K-8
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  • Uprisings Foreshadow Stonewall
  • Taiwan 1st Asian Nation to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage
  • Rudi
    Gernreich
    1922-1985
  • India’s First Openly Gay Prince an LGBTQ+ Advocate
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  • Wakashu, Japan’s Third Gender
  • Explore Queer heritage through multimedia stories,
    powerful oral histories, and our trivia game, Queery!

  • Tom of Finland’s Stamp of Approval
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  • Berlin, Birth of the LGBTQ+ Movement
  • LGBTQ+ Muslims Find Sanctuary in Cape Town Mosque
  • Titica, Angola’s Glamazon
  • Love Poem Leads to Airman’s Discharge
    A Personal Story
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  • Cambodia’s Gay Dance Company
  • Rainbow Railroad, Stories of Suffering and Freedom
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