The confrontations between police and demonstrators at the Stonewall Inn in New York City the weekend of June 27-29, 1969 mark the beginning of the modern glbtq movement for equal rights.
Formed soon after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the short-lived but influential Gay Liberation Front brought a new militancy to the movement that became known as gay liberation.
The sexual revolution of post-World War II America changed sexual and gender roles profoundly.
"Leather" is a blanket term for a large array of sexual preferences, identities, relationship structures, and social organizations loosely tied together by the thread of what is conventionally understood as sadomasochistic sex.
Although best known for her crusade for women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony spoke out on a range of feminist issues.
With reports from hundreds of sub-Saharan African locales of male-male sexual relations and from about fifty of female-female sexual relations, it is clear that same-sex sexual relations existed in traditional African societies, though varying in forms and in the degree of public acceptance
Androgyny, a psychological blending of gender traits, has long been embraced by strong women, soft men, members of queer communities, and others who do not easily fit into traditionally defined gender categories.
A cultural crossroads between Asia and Europe, Russia has a long, rich, and often violent heritage of varied influences and stark confrontations in regard to its patterns of same-sex love.
Acclaimed ballet dancer Alexander Grant (1925-2011) died on September 30, 2011 in London. Especially known for his character roles in ballets by Frederick Ashton, Grant was a member of the Royal Ballet from 1946 to 1976, and served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada from 1976 to 1983. In 1969, he was described by New York Times critic Clive Barnes as "one of the few great, as opposed to merely magnificent, dancers of our time." He is survived by Jean-Pierre Gasquet, his partner of 54 years.
Grant appears in this undated archival film: