Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.

From Delhi to New York, from the street to the bath house, he has captured clandestine moments, risked his freedom – and even referenced Romantic painters. Ahead of a major show, the photographer relives his landmark shots

Everyone thinks Byker Grove broke the taboo in 1994, but another teen drama got there first. Here’s the astonishing story of Two of Us, which put a gay relationship on UK screens – and was the origina...

Have we fallen out of love with Pride?

Erika Castellanos has beaten the life expectancy of 35 for a transgender woman in the region, but warns aid cuts and a rollback in human rights risk reversing efforts to end Aids

The hotel room that famed author Oscar Wilde stayed in while visiting Brighton shortly before his arrest on charges of homosexuality has been identified by archaeologists from Archaeology South-East.

Berlin police called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital on Saturday, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured when a car drove into the crowd.

Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship New research has shed light on Spain’s first transgender political organisation, a trailblazing collective that was launched in 1978 as its members grappled with the lingering persecution of the country’s four-decade dictatorship. Founded in Barcelona, the Colectivo de Travestis y Transexuales, or Collective of Transvestis and Transexuals, sought to add its voice to the heated conversation playing out across Spain in the transition to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Continue reading...

Prof Sarah Dillon says the short story, Pryce's Buoy, offers fresh insights into the codebreaker.

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade on channelling his own experience into one of the country’s only screen portrayals of homosexuality since it was decriminalised in 2018

He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households

More than an art exhibition, Lucy Ash’s latest show asks why some lives are remembered while others vanish, weaving together LGBTQ+ history, personal loss and social justice.

As a child growing up in gloomy northern England, David Hockney noticed the sharply defined shadows in the Hollywood films of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

We call on the Government to launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988) which specified that Local Authorities could not intentionally promote, through ma...

As the winner of this year’s International Booker Prize is announced, here’s the lowdown on the triumphant book, its author and translator

Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s

Erudite and urbane, David Malouf — perhaps most famous for his portrait of mid-century Brisbane in his 1975 novel Johnno — will be fondly remembered for his immeasurable contribution to Australian let...

A new book uncovers the yearning romance that fueled the Aids-era artists’ life and work

The Norm Queer Agency is inviting queer British artists to submit work for a group exhibition at the British Embassy in Paris.

As part of Queer History Club we are very excited to bring you a book talk, conversation and scrapbooking workshop with the editors of A Queer Scrapbook! New book A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Irelan...

In the 1830-40s rural Wales was shaken by the Rebecca Riots, where protesters disguised themselves as women

Relations with Britain have improved again since Brexit, but battles over Irish history remain visible in Stormont’s endless feuding, says Rory Carroll, the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent

LGBT Foundation has issued a nationwide call for LGBTQ+ people and their allies to share the moments of everyday joy, hope and unity that define their lives. The charity is inviting stories from acros...

The long history of queer people as monsters - and the dangerous return of that story

History breeds discomfort. Foucault’s basic question is still of great interest: what is it about sex that makes...

A visibility campaign to highlight the accomplishments and lives of LGBTQAI+ people working in science, technology, engineering, and math.

‘Local voices are literally the bones of this exhibition’

How did people defy state prejudice to find love and relationships?

Ahead of its premiere, Jordan told us all about the new short film - and teaching his straight pals about hun culture

Tip Toe is Davies' first original drama since It's A Sin.

You will soon be able to stand in the very trial dock where Oscar Wilde stood trial, after funding was secured to restore it.

It’s LGBT History month, and as Stonewall brings together parliamentarians, business leaders and civil society in the House of Commons for its inau...

Rosie Jones chats to the Big Issue about disability and sexuality as she is set to take to the stage in a play that breaks down taboos.

The month of June has become the traditional Pride month and many parades and events are taking place across the UK. Its origins date back to the early 1970s

There is, as E. Ann Matter put it in her article “My Sister, My Spouse”, a real “difficulty of speaking about women’s lives in a society which was solidly patriarchal […] and of speaking about sexu…

André K. Isaacs, Sophie Wilson and the BBC's Nathan Wren are among those making up the 'STEM' category of Attitude 101, empowered by Bentley.

How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?

The Premier League launches its 'Premier League with Pride' campaign, effectively replacing its partnership with Stonewall and Rainbow Laces.