LGBTQ History

The T.R.U.T.H. Project founder Kevin Anderson receives the Montrose Center's 2026 LGBTQ+ Innovator Award, honoring 15 years of healing spaces for queer and trans communities of color.

A plaque at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument no longer mentions that suffragists were beaten and force-fed. The Stonewall website now says "LGB." Under a Trump administration directive to strip "disparaging" material from national…

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the gay former priest whose novel "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" won Stonewall and Lambda honors and drew book bans, has died in El Paso at 71.

On International Non-Binary People's Day, Riot Stanley, Nore Gonzalez, and Ethan Michelle Ganz share what it means to live authentically outside the binary in Houston.

Throughout Pride Month and the World Cup, Dr. Nasser "Nas" Mohamed's Love Is the Goal campaign has encouraged people to see LGBTQ+ visibility not as a political statement, but as a human one. He partners…

Uncloseted Media traces LGBTQ rights in America from colonial-era sodomy laws to the 2026 Supreme Court ruling on conversion therapy — a history that's anything but linear.

A Chinese activist who faced government crackdowns at home has opened the first museum dedicated to Chinese queer art in San Francisco's historic Chinatown — and the response has been overwhelming,

Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969–2000 (Viking, 2026), by gay music journalist Barry Walters, is a practically comprehensive overview of the music made by and for LGBTQ folks, and its enduring presence and…

A new exhibit at the University of Houston Libraries’ Special Collections traces Houston’s LGBTQ history from the 1940s to the present, drawing from photographs, handwritten letters, artwork, publications, clothing, and other rare materials held in…

Houston leaders are working to revive the Lower Westheimer Banner District, bringing Pride-themed banners back to Montrose after the controversial removal of a rainbow crosswalk.