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On this day in queerstory: birth of Clause 28 prohibiting ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in UK schools
In 1981, a major milestone of queer musical visibility happened: on December 8, 1981, the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus became the first openly gay musical group to perform at the storied Carnegie Hall. What might today seem routine was then unthinkable — a full hall of public listeners attending an explicitly gay choir. […]
On this day in queerstory: Australia votes to legalize same-sex marriage
December 7 doesn’t typically appear in the grand timeline of LGBTQ+ history as one of the “big dates,” but it has repeatedly delivered turning points — legal, cultural, and symbolic — that helped shift the conditions under which queer people live, create, and resist. Across continents and decades, this date has carried moments of visibility […]
On this day in queerstory: Hillary Clinton declares ‘gay rights are human rights’
One of the most consequential December 6 events unfolded in 2011, when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a landmark speech in Geneva declaring that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” While it’s easy to forget how controversial that framing was at the time, the moment marked the first […]
On this day in queerstory: Fiji kicks back against anti-queer laws
For queer communities around the world, this date quietly holds a series of victories, breakthroughs, and acts of defiance that helped reshape law, culture, and the visibility of LGBTQ+ lives. One of the clearest examples unfolded on December 5, 2000, when the High Court of Fiji issued a landmark ruling declaring that the country’s sodomy […]
On this day in queerstory: radical newspaper ‘Furies’ is published
On December 4, history tends to remember the marquee political dramas of the day — elections, treaties, scandals. Less often highlighted is the quieter but no less transformative story of how queer artists, activists, and organizers seized the cultural stage and refused to let their narratives be sidelined. But on this date, across decades and […]
On this day in queerstory: fighting for employment equality in DC
December 3 has a way of spotlighting moments when queer people stepped into public view—sometimes through cultural disruption, sometimes through legal confrontation, and sometimes simply by insisting that their lives be seen. In the United States, the date intersects with a pivotal moment in the early gay-rights movement. On December 3, 1965, members of the […]