Posts by Sofia:

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 […]

On this day in queerstory: equality spreads and Europe fights prejudice

December 2 is one of those dates where queer history unfolds on multiple fronts at once: legal breakthroughs, cultural provocations, and the kinds of public gestures that quietly shift national conversations. In the United States, one of the most significant events tied to this date came on December 2, 2004, when the state of Massachusetts […]

On this day in queerstory: world AIDS Day

December 1 has become one of the most symbolically dense dates in queer history — a day shaped by activism, remembrance, artistic resistance, and global reckonings with the AIDS crisis. But long before the world began formally observing World AIDS Day, the date had already begun accumulating moments that now read as early markers of […]

On this day in queerstory: protests against ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

In the United States, one of the most biggest November 30 milestones took place in 1950, when the U.S. Senate’s subcommittee on “the employment of homosexuals in government” delivered its findings to Congress. The report, which helped codify the federal government’s purging of queer workers, was a chilling blueprint for what became known as the […]