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.

The Stonewall riot in June, 1969 is generally remembered as be the beginning of the gay liberation movement. But there was precedent for the event.