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🏳️‍🌈 THIS DAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY September 10: LGBTQ+ history is complicated. Sometimes we win. Sometimes we lose. Sometimes the same government that gives our community protection in one area turns around and denies equality somewhere else. September 10 is one of those dates that reminds us that progress has never traveled in a perfectly straight line. Across different decades and different parts of the world, September 10 has been connected to employment protections, trans

Before Pride, marriage equality, and the ability for many LGBTQ+ people to live more openly, society had to begin questioning the idea that being gay should be a crime. On September 4, 1957, Britain published the historic Wolfenden Report, formally known as the Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution. The report made a groundbreaking recommendation for its time: consensual homosexual behavior between adults in private should no longer be t

Sometimes progress means refusing to settle for “almost equal.” September 1 marks an important moment in LGBTQ+ history because it represents a shift from simply recognizing same-sex relationships to recognizing that LGBTQ+ couples deserved access to marriage itself. For years, LGBTQ+ couples were told that separate legal arrangements should be enough. But our community continued asking a simple question: If our relationships are equal, why shouldn't our marriages