In 2017 the City of Philadelphia revealed their take on the traditional LGBT+ pride flag, to include two new stripes. A black and brown stripe to represent LGBT+ communities of […]
In 2014 two male penguins at an English Zoo in Kent became fathers after looking after an unhatched egg given to them by zookeepers. They instantly became internationally famous. The […]
In 2014, Drag Queen Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest with her epic hit, “Rise Like A Phoenix” which prompted a backlash from some in Russia – despite Conchita […]
Today in 1933 the Nazis started their war against the gay and lesbian community in Germany by confiscating materials from the Institute of Sexual Science. The institute’s works were destroyed […]
After being served one too many warm beers at a rival, Crews was born. “Chris” takes us down memory lane. CREWS: 1990-1998 St Martins Lane, next to Stringfellows Crews came […]
A contributor to our Lost LGBT+ Scene project left this recollection of his first encounter at The Catacombs as an 18-year-old in the heydays of the early 70s. Vivid memories […]
Oh, the “Biograph” was a grubby, run-down, sordid, glorious place. I’d first heard about it in 1965, from friends that lived in Pimlico, and who constantly made jokes about the […]
In 1999 a nail bomb went off in the popular gay pub The Admiral Duncan, killing three people. Three people were killed and dozens injured when a bomb, left in […]
In 1999 a nail bomb went off in the popular gay pub The Admiral Duncan, killing three people. Three people were killed and dozens injured when a bomb, left in […]
In 1988 over 20,000 people took to the streets of Manchester to protest the Conservative Government’s controversial anti-gay legislation known as Section 28. Section 28 of the Local Government Act […]
