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The Glamour Boys were a small group of young gay British Conservative MPs who stood against Nazism as part of the anti-appeasement movement.

Credit: AP By ITV News Multimedia Producer Suzanne Elliott February is LGBT+ History Month, 28 days of celebration, information, education and remembrance that aims to raise awareness on matters affecting the LGBT+ community, promoting equality and diversity across society. Even today, LGBT+ people face prejudice and discrimination, but for many lives have been improved and saved by those trailblazers and pioneers that have gone before. Here are 10 LGBT+ who have changed the lives or their community, country and the world. Barbara Gittings Many of us this side of the Atlantic may not know...

In the 1920s and 1930s of buttoned-up Britain, homosexuality was an illicit act, and would remain that way until 1967 when the law changed in England and Wales. Even though gay culture was vibrant, it existed mostly underground, its community forced to socialise with a certain degree of covertness in order to avoid exposure and the risk of prison. Berlin, meanwhile, had emerged from the dark years following the first world war as a cultural hub of creativity and intellectualism, attracting pioneers in the fields of science, psychology, art and literature. The German capital was also a hotbed ...