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On this day in queerstory: US prepares to remove homosexuality from the DSM
For many LGBTQIA+ people, December is a season of contradictions — celebration entwined with reflection, joy mixed with remembrance. And December 11 has long been one of those layered days. Each year, it seems to gather a surprising number of flashpoints: political, cultural, artistic. Today’s look back moves through courtrooms, cinemas, and activist circles, tracing […]
On this day in queerstory: Human Rights Day
December 10 is officially recognized around the world as Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. For LGBTQ+ communities, the date has taken on additional weight over the decades — not because the declaration originally protected queer people (it did not), but because so […]
On this day in queerstory: ECHR forces LGBTQIA+ law changes in Northern Ireland
Across continents, this date captures the slow but steady cadence of LGBTQ+ history: not always dramatic, but always moving. One of the most consequential December 9 milestones unfolded in 1979, when the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Dudgeon v. United Kingdom. The case challenged Northern Ireland’s criminalization of same-sex intimacy — […]
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 […]