When gay and lesbian people had to invent their own languages with which to talk with each other, camp led the way.

In 1997, Ellen DeGeneres publicly came out on her show, Ellen. It was a cultural turning point for many.

In the 1990s, lesbian characters were repeatedly transformed into "close friends" in film adaptions of LGBTQ-themed books.

Mother Superior Benedetta Carlini, a visionary nun of Renaissance Italy, was accused of heresy and “female sodomy.”

In the Old West, cross-dressing was sometimes a disguise for criminals on the lam. But, one historian argues, in many cases these “cross-dressers” were probably people who we would identify as transgender today.

Underneath the home and personal makeovers, is "Queer Eye" political?

Two experts in bioethics have curated a reading list of over 20 JSTOR sources on selected issues like: gene-editing, research and treatment, reproduction, disability, genetics, genealogy and race.

What constitutes adulthood has never been self-evident or value-neutral. Queer lives follow their own temporal logic.

Same-sex crushes and romantic friendships between college-age women were common throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The 18th-century "sapphist" gardens of Mary Granville Pendarves Delany were piquant places that expressed same-sex desires.