The barbaric history of early conversion therapy in the UK
Heartbreaking.
Queer
The Gay Community: Who thought there was a real life Dorothy that all gay men were friends with?
“I have friends everywhere. Mainly in theatre, for some reason.”
Meet Wilma Burgess, country music’s first openly lesbian singer
Here’s how she changed country music from the inside.
Salvador Dalí’s muse Amanda Lear in her first TV commercial, 1967
Already radiating the surreal, gender-fluid mystique Dalí adored.
Fellini originally wanted to cast the Beatles, Mae West, Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye in ‘Satyricon’
In 1968, Federico Fellini decided he was going make the greatest homosexual movie ever made. What he meant by a homosexual movie, no one was…
‘Beware! Beware! We are not to be trifled with’: The work of pioneering genderqueer artist Gluck
Gluck, circa 1924. Hannah Gluckstein preferred to be called Peter or Hig but liked “Gluck, no prefix, suffix or quotes” best. Gluck. A functional name.…
Rebel Without Applause: That time Sir John Gielgud got busted for cruising
Being invested with a knighthood can have its advantages. The media will take a knight more seriously and give credence to their pronouncements no matter…