Posts by Sofia:

On this day in queerstory: Connecticut decriminalizes same-sex acts

October 1 isn’t just the day we finally admit that summer’s over and drag our jumpers out of the cupboard. For queer history, it’s a date with layers – legal victories, cultural launches, and reminders that progress often begins with both tiny steps and giant leaps. Let’s start in the courts. On this day in […]

On this day in queerstory: the birth of Truman Capote

September 30: a day when art, activism, and community memories come together with purpose and pride. Let’s start with the beat of a march: since 1959, Paraguay has marked this date as a kind of quiet revolution. On September 30, 1959, a protest document titled The Letter from an Amoral Man was published. It was […]

On this day in queerstory: The Captive shocks Broadway with queer storyline

September 29: a date that’s had its highs, its heartbreaks, its artistic risktakers, and its people who changed the game just by being who they were. One of the oldest entries tied to this day comes from 1926, when The Captive, a Broadway melodrama starring a young woman seduced by an older woman (her so-called […]

On this day in queerstory: Jeanne Córdova publishes moving letter

September 28 has its own little sparkle in queer history – though not always in the way you might expect. On this date in 2015, the beloved lesbian activist and writer Jeanne Córdova published “A Letter About Dying, to My Lesbian Communities.” In this moving farewell (made public in September of that year), she shared […]

On this day in queerstory: same-sex marriage legalized in Manitoba, Canada

On September 16, 2004, love officially got a legal upgrade in Manitoba. That was the day the province joined the ranks of early Canadian regions to legalize same-sex marriage, thanks to a court decision that declared the old ban unconstitutional. In other words: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms looked at the law, raised an […]

On this day in queerstory: Gay Uncles Day

August 14 marks the anniversary of the first Gay Uncles Day. Also known as Guncles Day, it was first celebrated in 2016.Gay Uncles Day is usually celebrated on the second Sunday of August, so this year it was observed on August 10. But it is also important to recognise the anniversary of the founding of […]