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

LGBTQ+ history

Oscar Wilde pictured around 1882.

Victorian

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

Georgian

Q&AWho were the Ladies of Llangollen?

A portrait of Anne Lister

Victorian

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)

General Modern

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

A drag queen applies lipstick in this 1959 photograph

Victorian

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

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What are the challenges of telling LGBTQ history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s private life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Renaissance

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

Terracotta plaque which is believed to show the poet Sappho rejecting an amorous advance by her contemporary who is also from the island of Lesbos. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

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From Sappho to It’s a Sin: 9 LGBT+ histories, chosen by experts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The big questions of LGBTQ history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Pride and prejudice: same-sex relations through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of a gay pride parade in Boston, Massachusetts, c1977. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images)

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From the ancient world to the 1969 Stonewall Riots: a brief guide to LGBT+ history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887

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From the real Calamity Jane to 'Madam Moustache': pioneer women of the Wild West. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death

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'Female husbands': the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RuPaul – who produces and presents the reality TV show bearing his name – performs during a Gay Rights March in Washington, DC, April 1993. Over 500,000 LGBTQ+ activists and allies participated in a gathering organised to end discrimination. (Photo by Porter Gifford/Liaison)

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From Fanny and Stella to Ru Paul's Drag Race: a short history of drag. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. (Photo by David Lee/Netflix)

20th Century

Who was Ma Rainey, “mother of the blues”?

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The gay MPs who opposed appeasement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Stonewall Riots: the flashpoint that launched the gay rights movement in the US. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

During his time in Oxford, Wilde fully embraced ‘aesthetic flair’: growing his hair long; dressing in flamboyant fashions and assuming exaggerated affectations. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian

7 facts you (probably) didn’t know about Oscar Wilde

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

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Out of the closets and into the streets: the legacy of the Stonewall Riots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gentleman Jack, Suranne Jones as Anne Lister (Photo by BBC/Lookout Point/Jay Brooks)

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Gentleman Jack. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Record producer Joe Meek

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Sexing up history: how to study and tell the history of sex. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in 'The Favourite'. (Photo by Twentieth Century Fox/Entertainment Pictures)

Stuart

The Favourite: the real history behind the new Queen Anne film

A Campaign for Homosexual Equality rally held in London’s Trafalgar Square in 1974. The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 helped pave the way for activism such as this in the 1970s, says Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite. (Corbis via Getty Images)

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The 1967 Sexual Offences Act: a landmark moment in the history of British homosexuality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde in 'The Happy Prince'. "The image of Wilde in Paris at the end of the 19th century is full of fantasy and sadness, tragedy and humour," says Everett. (Lionsgate)

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The Happy Prince: Rupert Everett on Oscar Wilde's life in exile. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval

The secret intimacies of Edward IV: multiple marriages and a same-sex affair?

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