People march with a large rainbow flag in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Image by Photolibrary / Getty Images Plus)

LGBTQ+ history

American actress Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hayes. (Image by Alamy)

How Georgian and Victorian same-sex couples co-opted marital traditions and made them their own. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A cup depicting a male couple making love

The boy that emperor Nero made his ‘wife’: what the tragedy of the castrated Sporus tells us about homosexuality in ancient Rome

Women enjoy life on two wheels in this 1895 photograph. The bicycle was a key part of the image of the ‘New Woman’ (Photo by Glasshouse Images/Alamy Stock Photo)

Challenging gender in the Victorian Age: the 'masculine' New Woman and 'effeminate' New Man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jason Okundaye (Photo by Damien McFadden)

Jason Okundaye on the Black gay community and its tensions: “The movement has always been a broad church”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A surprising history of sex between men. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Being Black and gay in postwar Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James VI and I and his favourites, Robert Carr and George Villiers

James VI and I and his favourites: what were their relationships like?

Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Drag: a British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christina, Queen of Sweden

General History

LGBTQ people who changed the world

American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin: the quiet force behind the March on Washington

Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men kiss in a medieval illumination.

Are some LGBTQ histories being overlooked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde on trial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Which LGBTQ+ histories get told – and which get overlooked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brian Epstein (centre) with the Beatles, who he managed from 1962 until his death in 1967 (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)

Brian EpsteinThe brilliant but troubled man behind The Beatles

Photograph of Pauli Murray

Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

Second World War

Hiding in plain sightThe prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

Two women share a tender moment, c1902

Q&AHas it ever been a crime to be lesbian in England?

Historian Fern Riddell

15 minutes of fameFern Riddell chooses Charley Wilson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charley WilsonVictorian transgender working-class man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From bohemian Brighton to military Plymouth: the LGBTQ history of four British cities. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

New Yorkers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

Why we should remember…The 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde pictured around 1882.

Oscar Wilde's tragic end

Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ feature film Benediction.

First World War

Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend

Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, better known to history as the Ladies of Llangollen

Q&AWho were the Ladies of Llangollen?

A portrait of Anne Lister

The real Gentleman Jack: the secret life of Anne Lister, Britain's ‘first modern lesbian’

Amelia Earhart, Princess Diana, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Marie Curie. (Photo by Getty Images)

20 inspirational quotes from women through history

Actress Vesta Tilley poses with a bicycle while dressed in male uniform

General History

Drag kings: a brief history of male impersonators