fuckyeahqueerhistory

A queer rights demonstration outside the Democratic National Convention in New York City, 1976.

A couple kisses after marriage is equalized in Mexico City, 2009.

Shot during the coal miners’ strike in south Wales, 1984-85. 

A detail of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, where the Nazis murdered about 55,000 queer people. When Sachsenhausen was liberated, the queer prisoners had to finish their sentences under British and American troops because homosexuality was still illegal. (see further Heinz Heger’s book The Men with the Pink Triangle.)

Graffiti in San Francisco after the White Night riots, 1979.

The original Lambda Rising bookstore in Washington D.C., 1970s.

Members of Queer Nation protesting in New York, 1990s. 

Protesting in Australia, 1970s.