LGBTQ+ history

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

Brian Epstein The brilliant but troubled man behind The Beatles

Photograph of Pauli Murray

Pauli Murray The 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 sight The prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

Two women share a tender moment, c1902

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

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American actress Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hayes

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.

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Historian Fern Riddell

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

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

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

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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&A Who 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