Ethan Crawford was nervous about coming out as gay, but ‘all of the guys on my swim team were accepting and supportive, which ...

2025 has been a hard year to be Queer in this necrotic empire but it has been a downright horrific year to be a Queer kid and tragically, in many ways, it has never been harder to be transgender under ...

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 ...

In the cultural zeitgeist of the last century, California has been a bastion of queer acceptance and sanctuary. What many do not know is that the vibrant queer communities of San Francisco and Los ...

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, ...

Before the Nazis took power, Berlin was a center of LGBTQ+ rights and queer culture, with research institutes, a flourishing nightlife and one of the earliest gay rights' movements.Today, Berlin is ...

In 2024, the Times ran a project called “Our Queerest Century,” which celebrated LGBTQ+ history and contributions since 1924. Readers said they find hope in that history and in each other as they ...

When Ray Broshears, a gay preacher in San Francisco, started a street vigilante group to protect the LGBTQ+ people in the Tenderloin neighborhood, he told a reporter he wanted to frighten "all those ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, fresh off a momentous term, already ⁠has ⁠a slate of important cases set up for its next ⁠term that begins in October on issues including guns, voting restrictions, LGBT rights ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the labels used to describe those in the L.G.B.T.Q. community. To the Editor: Re “I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters,” by Matthew Vines (Opinion guest essay, July 2) ...