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On this day in queerstory: Microsoft withdraws support for H.B. 1515

April 21 is a date where queer history moves through institutions — parliament floors and corporate boardrooms — showing how change can come from both legislation and pressure. On April 21, 2005, the lower house of Spain’s parliament, the Congress of Deputies, passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. The legislation would go on to be […]

On this day in queerstory: China depathologizes homosexuality

April 20 is a date where queer history turns on classification — who gets defined as normal, who gets labelled as ill, and who gets to decide. A key moment tied to this day comes from 2001, when the Chinese Society of Psychiatry officially removed homosexuality from the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders. The decision, […]

On this day in queerstory: activism in Minnesota

April 19 is a date where queer history splits across decades — from street-level protest in the late 1970s to the slow, legal reshaping of relationships in the United States. In 1978, activists in Minnesota organised protests pushing back against anti-LGBTQ legislation and social hostility. This was a period when queer organizing in the U.S. […]

On this day in queerstory: Bavarian churches formal blesses same-sex unions

April 18 is a date where queer history brushes up against religion — one of the institutions most often positioned as resistant to LGBTQ inclusion, but also, increasingly, a site of change. In April 2018, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria formally moved to allow the blessing of same-sex couples, following internal debates that had […]

On this day in queerstory: New Zealand finalizes act legalizing same-sex marriage

April 17 is a date where queer history offers something more grounded than a symbolic awareness day — a set of concrete moments that show how visibility, law, and culture collide across different countries and decades. A key legal landmark tied to this date comes from 2013, when the New Zealand Parliament passed the Marriage […]

On this day in queerstory: the UK excludes trans women from the Equality Act

April 16 is a date where queer history sits uncomfortably in the present tense — not a distant milestone, but a reminder that rights are not fixed, and recognition can be narrowed as well as expanded. On April 16, 2024, the UK government clarified its interpretation of the Equality Act 2010 in a way that […]