In December of 1914, a series of grassroots, unofficial ceasefires took hold of the Western Front in the heat of World War I. On Christmas, soldiers from an estimated 100,000 British and German troops began to exchange seasonal greetings and sing songs across the trenches, some … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill: "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Before you start in on the outrage, I fully acknowledge the serious modern age problems with Churchill. His strongly held and outspoken views on race deserve our scorn. However, Churchill was not … [Read more...]
A “Black Trans Lives Matter” Street Mural Now Marks the Site of a 1966 Trans Rights Riot
San Francisco's famed Transgender District just got a "Black Trans Lives Matter" mural at Turk and Taylor Streets for the 54th anniversary of the Compton … [Read more...]
Marsha P. Johnson Gets a Google Doodle To End Pride Month
To round out Pride Month, Google has a lovely tribute to Marsha P. Johnson, a guiding spirit of the sex and gender minority rights movements. I've listed some interesting works about Marsha and her legacy: Pay It No Mind: … [Read more...]
‘Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen’ Is Now on Netflix. Watch
Director Sam Feder's important documentary outlines how gender diversity has been shown in film and television. It's now available to watch on Netflix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-sPqFMBK1o This century, we've … [Read more...]
“London’s Dreadful Visitation”: Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague of 1665
London's Dreadful Visitation, or, A Collection of all the Bills of Mortality for this Present Year - E. Cotes, 1665 Pandemics are THE topic of conversation these days, if you are lucky enough to have someone to talk with. Cable news relentlessly brings us a daily death … [Read more...]
Pornhub’s First Non-Adult Film Covers the NSFW History of a Queer Black L.A. Club Night
Filmmaker Leila Weinraub's groundbreaking documentary Shakedown chronicles a legendary underground club night in Los Angeles in the 1990s and 2000s, and now it's available on Pornhub as their first non-adult feature. Watch as … [Read more...]
#Herstory: A Former Slave Became the Greatest Drag Queen of the 1880s
Imagine being such an American drag pioneer that your drag name was simply The Queen! William Dorsey Swann was born into bondage, and after the Civil War became Washington D.C.'s greatest drag … [Read more...]
38 Years Ago Today: The New York Times Reports on “Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals”
On this day in 1981, The New York Times published an article entitled "Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals" – the first to identify the plague that would become known as AIDS and decimate a generation. Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay: Fun with Nazis in Germany 1933, “The Secret Meeting”
February 20, 1933- The Secret Meeting That elfin Nazi Adolf Hitler and 25 German businessmen and industrialists met at the official residence of president of the Reichstag, Hermann Göring, in Berlin, the Reichstagspräsidentenpalais (try and say that swiftly 10 … [Read more...]
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