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Robert Conn and Loyd Powell show off a framed version of the iconic Mary's Naturally mural on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. Pieces of Mary's, the famous gay bar that closed in 2009, are some of the Heart of Leather Foundation's most important pieces.
We need to work together to build a more inclusive history, writes Mags L Halliday. Plus a letter from Shane Ritchie One, Women in Red, started in October 2014. At that point, only 15.53% of biographies on the encyclopedia were of women.
It’s LGBTQ History Month, and that usually means we’re thinking about our community’s heroes and martyrs. But as a queer historian, I believe it’s more important than ever to think beyond those archetypes. The past is full of queer human…
Some fascinating LGBTQ history startled me yesterday! Even having lived in New York City for a decade, I never heard how NYC’s Roosevelt Island got caught up in the so-called Pansy Craze of the 1930s —a nascent queer revolution most of…
Memorials and Things of Fame Researched and compiled by Lorie Pierce October 14, 1766 – The Quebec Gazette Receiver-General’s Office All importers of Brandy, Rum, Wine, &c. into this Province … Continue reading Memorials and Things of Fame – October 14, 2026 → Memorials and Things of Fame…
Have you ever wondered what it might have been like to live in a society where you yearned for genuine love and connection, but you found it denied at all turns? As a gay man pondering queer history, I’m often…
Downtown St. Catharines has earned a spot among the world’s coolest neighborhoods, according to Time Out Magazine’s 2026 ranking. This Niagara city landed number nine on Time Out’s list of the 40 coolest neighbourhoods in the world, joining communities in cities including…
While Stonewall was galvanising a new liberation movement in the English-speaking world, queer people in Spain under the Franco dictatorship were building something of their own — and Pasaje Begoña shows just how brutal the limits of that freedom could be.
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Dr. Joan Sangster, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Vanier Professor Emeritus at Trent University, is the author of eight monographs, including the award-winning Demanding Equality: A History of Canadian Feminism, Earning Respect: The Lives of Working…