The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.

The 2018 Revolutionary Girl Utena musical, marking the 20th anniversary of the series, ran from Marc...

A documentary about Tadashi Hase, a gay poet born in 1929, who spent much of his life closeted due t...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

Interviews and performance footage are used to provide an overview of the women's music scene.

A short documentary exploring the ways LGBT couples show affection, and how small interactions like ...

A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the li...

By issuing marriage licenses to same gender couples, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom uproots the st...

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A portrait of Samuel R. Delany, an award-winning African-American gay author whose credits include e...

Monroe, Aura, Marlene: Three drag queens from the Ukrainian LGBTQ+ community raise funds for the fro...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...

In 2012, Stephen Vaughan and Kay Ferreter are invited to address the congregation at St. Joseph's Re...

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The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers...

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Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profes...

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Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia back in 1960. Gracefully stepping up to the microphone for the cel...