The famous Historica Canada series features an icon in trans history

EXCERPT: Kirsty Loehr’s playful new book, “A Short History of Queer Women,” introduces us to women across history who weren’t just friends

Over 20 years ago, police raided the Pussy Palace, but this is just a piece of the queer women’s bathhouse’s story

Julián Delgado Lopera’s oral history collection gave me the confidence to engage in community storytelling

The island nation will repeal its colonial-era law, but marriage equality will still be banned

REVIEW: Magnus Gertten’s documentary is a tender look at hidden love

Plus more of what’s up and on starting Aug. 5

In this previously unreleased 2014 interview, Gloria Allen reflects on her life and legacy

Laurie Marhoefer’s book on Magnus Hirschfeld looks at the famed German sexologist’s darker side and his relationship with a younger Asian man

This will be the first visitor centre in the U.S. park system to highlight queer and trans history

Teacher and local historian Walter Cassidy became obsessed with the person behind this frightening statistic. So he set out to find him

Season 3 of CBC’s “The Village” takes on the Montreal murders in the midst of the AIDS crisis

Ben Miller, co-author of the new book “Bad Gays,” takes a look at “evil and complicated” people over the course of centuries

“There’s just as great a diversity of sexuality and gender identities and experiences in the past as there is today”

Plus more of what’s on and happening starting May 26

From San Francisco and Santiago to Dublin and Berlin, these sites reflect our history, both good and bad, with creativity and heart

Friends and colleagues recall one of Canada’s most infamous journalists and longtime board member of Xtra’s publisher

Despite being dismissed as frivolous spectacle in North America, the song contest has always shaped geopolitics and been a force for queer and trans representation

History

Trans singer Jackie Shane spotlighted in latest Heritage Minute

What Queen Anne and Marie Antoinette had in common (rhymes with thespian dove)

The Pussy Palace was more than the raid

How the ¡Cuéntamelo! anthology inspired me to collect queer Latine stories

‘Nelly & Nadine’ unearths a love story lost to time

Billy Porter’s directorial debut, queer history and your new favourite song of the moment

Remembering trans icon Mama Gloria, the ‘Emily Post of Halsted Street’

One of the world’s first gay rights activists was racist and sexist. The author of a new book explores how much should it bug us

A new Stonewall visitor centre will honour the legacy of LGBTQ2S+ activism

The first person reported dead from AIDS in Canada was an anonymous gay man from Windsor who died in 1982

As HIV/AIDS ravaged Montreal in the ’90s, gay men were getting murdered—and trying to fight back

What can we learn from all of history’s ‘bad gays’?

Queer Britain opens the U.K.’s first LGBTQ+ museum

Stonewall history, a Two-Spirit powwow and your new favourite Black trans TikToker

These 10 must-see LGBTQ2S+ monuments celebrate our achievements and commemorate our struggles

Gerald Hannon, a key figure in the gay liberation movement, has died at age 77

Beyond the camp and frivolity of Eurovision