queer history
Non-heteronormative historical record
Queer history is the study and documentation of LGBTQ+ experiences across time—the lives, cultures, movements, and struggles of people outside heterosexual and cisgender norms.
The field recovers stories often erased or suppressed: a queer history of the Harlem Renaissance, queer history month.
It encompasses both academic scholarship and community efforts to preserve collective memory.
- Stonewall riotsLGBTQ uprising against police raid
- drag culturePerformance art of exaggerated femininity
- drag ballsCompetitive performance gatherings
- sodomy lawsStatutes criminalizing particular sexual behaviors
- transgenderGender differs from assignment
homophile · ballroom culture · voguing · camp aesthetics · conversion therapy · AIDS activism · gay · Harvey Milk · lesbian · molly · Daughters of Bilitis · bisexual · Obergefell v. Hodges · adoption rights · intersex · genderqueer · cross-dressing · closet
- LGBTQgay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary
- LGBTQ+ rightsgay rights, equal rights, lesbian rights, transgender rights, LGBTQ+ rights
- Queer Litgay fiction, coming-out stories, sapphic romance, lesbian drama, Oscar Wilde
- queer storiescoming out story, lesbian romance, transition story, self-acceptance, first love story
- Gender Historyfeminism, suffragettes, women's suffrage, patriarchy, women's liberation
- StonewallStonewall Inn, riots, uprising, police raid, Greenwich Village