This Day in Gay

Thirty years since intersex activists picketed the pediatricians with the greatest protest sign of all time, plus birthdays of Holly Woodlawn, Karin Boye and Keith Strickland — and one spectacularly clueless 1885 court ruling.

Some days on the gay calendar are gentle. October 19 is not one of them. This is the date a gay Prussian's ragtag army...

Matthew Shepard's death, the Finnish church exodus of 2010, the Tepláreň attack, and a suspicious cluster of gay heartthrob birthdays: everything queer that happened on October 12.

A bisexual activist, the oldest known lesbian in America, the newspaper that refused to die, and the first openly gay network news anchor — all connected by one October date.

If you needed proof that September 21 is one of the gayest days in the calendar, consider this: in the span of exactly twenty-five...

What do a bisexual feminist icon, a censored AIDS-era artist, a rock-and-roll pioneer, and a Parkland shooting survivor have in common? They all chose...

September 7 has given birth to icons, taken them away, and put their artifacts under glass at the Smithsonian. It's a day of arrivals...

August 24 is doing a lot. It gives us Marsha P. Johnson’s birthday, marks the death of Bayard Rustin, and celebrates the arrival of...

August 3 is one of those dates that refuses to behave like a tidy timeline. It gives us a trans wrestling pioneer, a bedroom...

Some dates whisper through history. July 27 grabs the mic. If you’re looking for a single day on the calendar that captures the full arc...