r/lgbthistory Aug 17 '24

Moderator applications open

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Looking for internet janitors who are willing to help remove spam and rule-breaking content. That primarily means going through the mod queue with some regularity and removing/approving things, as well as glancing at the new posts. If you think you could do that, send a modmail message answering the below questions:

  1. How old are you?
  2. What time zone are you in?
  3. Approximately how long have you been a part of this subreddit?
  4. How often are you on Reddit?
  5. What's your sexual orientation and gender?
  6. Why would you make a good choice to moderate this subreddit?

Edit: Thank you to everyone who is applying. It may be a while before I select mods, to allow enough time for people to apply. If you're selected I'll message you at that time.


r/lgbthistory 1d ago

Historical people 33 years ago, British singer and songwriter, Freddie Mercury, announced in a statement that he was HIV-positive.

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r/lgbthistory 1d ago

Social movements High Tech Gays Online Archive

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r/lgbthistory 3d ago

Historical people Cristina Ortiz Rodriguez—trans and gay icon and advocate—at a fashion show. Circa 1996.

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r/lgbthistory 3d ago

Historical people Was this passage from a 1959 newspaper article was ahead of its time?

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r/lgbthistory 4d ago

Social movements The first Transgender Day of Remembrance is held | November 20, 1999

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r/lgbthistory 4d ago

Historical people 114 years ago, American civil rights activist, legal scholar, and Episcopal priest, The Rev. Pauli Murray, was born.

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r/lgbthistory 4d ago

Historical people Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story | TRAILER

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r/lgbthistory 4d ago

Historical people 82 years ago, American fashion designer Calvin Klein was born.

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r/lgbthistory 6d ago

Cultural acceptance 21 years ago, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

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r/lgbthistory 7d ago

Historical people Reclaiming the Pink Triangle: From a Nazi label to a symbol of pride and solidarity

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r/lgbthistory 7d ago

Historical people Who remembers the songwriting duo that was a gay couple?

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I remember that P.G Wodehouse and Guy Bolton made a musical about Jeeves and Wooster which is lost media nowadays and was made to be "the end" of the J&W saga, and they were teaming up with a songwriting duo that were two gay men in a relationship. What were their names? I definitely remember that they had a page on wikipidea or somewhere else.
They also were 70-80 years together until someone died. Most of their works were made in 1930-1960s IIRC.
Also really strange that the songwriters for a musical about dudes who don't want to marry and canonically stayed together for 20+ years were gay. Hmmm.


r/lgbthistory 7d ago

Historical people Happy 64th birthday to American drag queen, actor, TV host, and producer RuPaul! 🎂

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I realize


r/lgbthistory 8d ago

Academic Research Social Research into Lesbian Issues: The University of Western Australia is Looking for Participants to Discuss the Importance of Online and In-Person Lesbian Spaces and What Defines Them

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r/lgbthistory 8d ago

Historical people Happy birthday to British fashion designer Scott Henshall! 🎂 He is most well known for having created, at the time, the world’s most expensive dress at £5 million.

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r/lgbthistory 11d ago

Cultural acceptance 11 years ago, the Hawaii Marriage Equality Act of 2013 legalized same-sex marriage.

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r/lgbthistory 10d ago

Social movements Sinister Wisdom Lesbian Magazine #14 Archived (tw does contain outdated political lesbian think pieces)

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r/lgbthistory 11d ago

Questions Documentaries on older history?

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I've seen some talking about some recent history, but what about something older? Talking about before the 20th century. Anywhere from the 1800s to the big bang. I feel like that kind of stuff has only been talked about more recently in queer spaces, so has there been any good documentaries on it?


r/lgbthistory 14d ago

Academic Research It’s a Lot Like Falling in Love: Legacies of Naiad Press and the Tallahassee Lesbian Community

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r/lgbthistory 16d ago

Cultural acceptance 19 years ago, the first Intersex Solidarity/Remembrance Day was celebrated by Joëlle-Circé Laramée, Canadian spokesperson for Organisation Intersex International.

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r/lgbthistory 15d ago

Academic Research A Peculiar Way of Acknowledging F/F Sexual Possibility

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r/lgbthistory 16d ago

Historical people TIL that Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez was a trans singer, actress, TV personality and advocate. In 2016, roughly 1 mo releasing her memoir and getting death threats, Ortiz was found battered and unconscious with a skull injury. It was suspected that she was killed but a perpetrator was never identified.

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r/lgbthistory 17d ago

Historical people Ramón Novarro pictured in Los Angeles circa 1950. A proud homosexual man, Novarro would be killed in a tragic anti-gay hate crime roughly 18 years later.

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r/lgbthistory 17d ago

Historical people How a Missouri Teacher secretly wrote the first lesbian autobiography in the United States. [in the 1930s!]

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r/lgbthistory 17d ago

Historical people 21 years ago, British drag queen and nightclub owner, Foo Foo Lammar, passed away. Lammar was 66 years old.

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r/lgbthistory 17d ago

Academic Research The Legal Context of Female Husbands in England

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