Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77

Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.

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‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life

From Delhi to New York, from the street to the bath house, he has captured clandestine moments, risked his freedom – and even referenced Romantic painters. Ahead of a major show, the photographer relives his landmark shots

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‘That was all secret’: the ‘gay mole’ who fought the BBC to show the first queer kiss on kids’ TV

Everyone thinks Byker Grove broke the taboo in 1994, but another teen drama got there first. Here’s the astonishing story of Two of Us, which put a gay relationship on UK screens – and was the origina...

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Currently - Pride Before the Fall - BBC Sounds

Have we fallen out of love with Pride?

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‘Reaching 50 is a success story’: how one trans woman survived HIV and stigma in Latin America

Erika Castellanos has beaten the life expectancy of 35 for a transgender woman in the region, but warns aid cuts and a rollback in human rights risk reversing efforts to end Aids

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Oscar Wilde’s hotel room discovered at Brighton’s Royal Albion

The hotel room that famed author Oscar Wilde stayed in while visiting Brighton shortly before his arrest on charges of homosexuality has been identified by archaeologists from Archaeology South-East.

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Several people are injured at Berlin's LGBTQ+ march after a car drives into the crowd

Berlin police called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital on Saturday, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured when a car drove into the crowd.

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Revealed: history of Spain’s fearless 1970s trans-rights political collective

Pioneering activists risked arrest and imprisonment amid lingering persecution after Franco dictatorship New research has shed light on Spain’s first transgender political organisation, a trailblazing collective that was launched in 1978 as its members grappled with the lingering persecution of the country’s four-decade dictatorship. Founded in Barcelona, the Colectivo de Travestis y Transexuales, or Collective of Transvestis and Transexuals, sought to add its voice to the heated conversation playing out across Spain in the transition to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Continue reading...

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Novel analysis reveals playful side of Alan Turing

Prof Sarah Dillon says the short story, Pryce's Buoy, offers fresh insights into the codebreaker.

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Rural gay love story Cactus Pears is a quietly radical moment for Indian film

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade on channelling his own experience into one of the country’s only screen portrayals of homosexuality since it was decriminalised in 2018

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‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s winking celebration of queer life

He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households

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Canada House exhibition explores visibility, loss and LGBTQ+ lives

More than an art exhibition, Lucy Ash’s latest show asks why some lives are remembered while others vanish, weaving together LGBTQ+ history, personal loss and social justice.

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David Hockney, the British artist who went in search of Californian colour, dies at 88

As a child growing up in gloomy northern England, David Hockney noticed the sharply defined shadows in the Hollywood films of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

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Petition: Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ people

We call on the Government to launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988) which specified that Local Authorities could not intentionally promote, through ma...

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Everything you need to know about Taiwan Travelogue, winner of the International Booker Prize 2026 | The Booker Prizes

As the winner of this year’s International Booker Prize is announced, here’s the lowdown on the triumphant book, its author and translator

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‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men

Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s

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Award-winning author who put Brisbane on the literary map dies aged 92

Erudite and urbane, David Malouf — perhaps most famous for his portrait of mid-century Brisbane in his 1975 novel Johnno — will be fondly remembered for his immeasurable contribution to Australian let...

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‘They accomplished so much, even as they were dying’: the groundbreaking gay art of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

A new book uncovers the yearning romance that fueled the Aids-era artists’ life and work

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Queer British artists based in France: open call for Pride exhibition at the British Embassy in Paris

The Norm Queer Agency is inviting queer British artists to submit work for a group exhibition at the British Embassy in Paris.

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A Queer Scrapbook: Book Launch, Conversation and Scrapbooking Workshop

As part of Queer History Club we are very excited to bring you a book talk, conversation and scrapbooking workshop with the editors of A Queer Scrapbook! New book A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Irelan...

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This Welsh cross-dressing riot tells us more about gender diversity in history than you might first think

In the 1830-40s rural Wales was shaken by the Rebecca Riots, where protesters disguised themselves as women

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Architect of the Easter Rising, hanged as a traitor: for Roger Casement, a pardon still seems far away | Rory Carroll

Relations with Britain have improved again since Brexit, but battles over Irish history remain visible in Stormont’s endless feuding, says Rory Carroll, the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent

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LGBT Foundation launches national campaign celebrating everyday LGBTQ+ joy

LGBT Foundation has issued a nationwide call for LGBTQ+ people and their allies to share the moments of everyday joy, hope and unity that define their lives. The charity is inviting stories from acros...

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