LGBTQ+ history

Historian Fern Riddell

15 minutes of fame Fern Riddell chooses Charley Wilson

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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.

New Yorkers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

Why we should remember… The 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn

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

Dancers in a nightclub

Aids: the epidemic that changed Britain

A drag queen applies lipstick in this 1959 photograph

Q&A Who was the first person to call themselves a ‘drag queen’?

The road to equality Protesters march in New York City, 1976. The gay rights movement in the US is one of LGBTQ history’s most famous stories. (Photo by Granger/Shutterstock)

What are the challenges of telling LGBTQ history?

Catherine Fletcher discusses what is known about the private life and relationships of the Renaissance polymath, and considers the historical inspirations for the new TV drama Leonardo. (Image by Getty Images)

Leonardo da Vinci’s private life

Drawing of an old and young man, possibly Salai, by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci’s private relationships: what’s known?