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Monday, Oct. 11, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry establishment that had things dangerously backwards.
Despite successes of LGBTQ+ activists, queer people still experience harmful reparative or conversion therapy. Learn more including from a firsthand account
The Fisk Jubilee Singers toured India and Bhutan for a few short months in 1889 and 1890, drawing cheers from listeners and praises from critics.
Everything Zoomer Photos: Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images, New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images, Diana Davies/New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Illustration: Jennifer Playford In remembrance of the Stonewall riots, which began on June 28, 1969, we look back at our feature about the uprising’s 50th anniversary in 2019 while paying tribute to Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Stormé DeLarverie — three gay activists who all played their part in the night that started a movement. Fifty years ago this summer, a bottle was thrown, a cop was punched and a movem...
It is time to consolidate all documents related to the Kent State shootings at Kent State...