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The Factory, a 1920 building that once housed both a former gay club and a movie camera manufacturer, has been deemed eligible for the U.S. National Parks Department’s National Register of Historic Places, reports WeHoville.

The critical issue of mental health and wellbeing among LGBT communities is the primary focus of the third annual #DMUpride conference hosted by De Montfort University Leicester (DMU).

One of three gay politicians elected to the Welsh Assembly last year speaks of the importance of having role models for LGBT people in Wales.

The Icons and Allies exhibition contains 20 Welsh people who have all contributed significantly to the history and visibility of LGBT+ people

New York's Stonewall Uprising is celebrated as the first shot fired for the gay rights movement, but it's not. L.A. will celebrate the 50t

Stuart Timmons, a journalist, activist and authority on the role of gays and lesbians in Los Angeles history, has died. He was 60.

Anthony Friedkin began his enduring portrait series ‘The Gay Essay’ in 1969, when he was still a teenager living in Los Angeles. The project — which chronicles four years of queer struggle, resistance, revolution, and joy — is now on view in New York.

“I was 19, vulnerable, young and putting my own identity together,” says photographer Anthony Friedkin when reflecting on his first project, The Gay Essay, which documents gay culture in Los Angeles and San Francisco between 1969-1972. What started, as a self-assigned project for a young photographer growing up in Hollywood has now become one of the most authentic portraits of gay life in America from this period.

In the 1974 The Anvil, a split-level "after hours nightclub" opened on the north facing side of the building which was now the pay-by-the-hour Liberty Inn.

Professor Gary Ferguson, a queer studies specialist at the University of Virginia, reveals the 450-year-old history of same-sex marriage.

The world's largest independent lesbian and gay archive — which happens to be right here in Toronto — is about to get a little bit larger.

February was LGBT history month. It has been celebrated across the country with talks, flag raising and events. Karen Pollock talks to the founder of the LGBT History project North East about why our history matters for more than 1 month of the year.

Very few book stores in the world have been fought off widespread hate, battled censorship at the Supreme Court, and acted as home base for an entire community of people. Toronto's Glad Day bookshop has, which is why it's even more special that it's not only Toronto's oldest bookstore, but the world's oldest LGBT bookstore.

The local historian discusses his exhaustively researched account of the queer experience in Las Vegas and elsewhere in the state.

Gay marriage didn’t only emerge in recent years as a key issue, its history dates back to the late 16th century.

Hackney Museum wants to right a wrong: it has no gay history in its archive. Emma Bartholomew reports on the launch of a project to change that.

Andrew Lumsden was in his twenties when he decided to explore the gay world of Sixties London, as he puts it. Decades later, he is regarded as one of the pioneering figures in the fight for LGBT rights in the UK who brought about the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality some fifty years ago. 

Richard Renaldi has spent years photographing LGBT clubbers in Manhattan as a way of understanding his own troubled youth as a gay man

Back in December of 1989, I had the good fortune of having a piece of mine, “Where Have You Gone, Billy Boy,” published in the “About Men” column of The New York Times Sunday Magazine. It was a coming of age story by an openly gay writer, and served as a salvo of sorts to announce a shift in certain attitudes in the editorial department at The Times.

February is LGBT History Month (LGBT HM). For those who haven’t heard of LGBT HM, this organisation does fantastic work, with the aim of promoting “equality and diversity for the benefit of the public”, through teaching of LGBT History. Whilst LGBT HM is celebrated in February, their fantastic work continues all year. Their aims are…

Since activist Dan Glass helped to set up London’s first LGBT tour of London in late November, he's had many a proud moment. But a young boy who tagged along with is mum is one particularly close to his heart. As the boy and his mother visited the sites on Queer Tours of London's A Mince Through Time in the capital, “she burst into tears”, Glass recalls to The Independent.