Library resource provider Gale has placed the largest digital archive on LGBT history and culture, the Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity, online.

Aside from Bessie Smith, here are six more lesbian blues singers who've made an impact on American music history, including Ma Rainey and Billie Holliday.

As Pride Month comes to a close, we decided to come up with a list of reasons most cited by anti-LGBT people why they're always so hostile against us .

In 19th century America, it was not uncommon for two single women to live together, independent of men. This arrangement was called a Boston marriage.

People are always telling us that coming out is the end all and be all of being queer. But what if it’s a bunch of baloney people tell themselves?

Ask ten people to define gay pride, and you will most likely get ten different answers. What is gay pride, and how did the annual pride parades come about?

Reserve the date on your calendar for the 2016 Tony Awards if you want to see Barbra Streisand and other celebrities, plus a little song and dance, on TV.

Lambda Literary has announced Bryan Borland & JP Howard as the finalists of the Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer awardees for LGBTQ literature.

Once more giving voice to the LGBT community, the 2016 class of the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices will spend a week in Los Angeles this summer.

There are LGBT monuments around the world, but the recent news that the White House is considering the creation of a national one is welcome indeed.

The GLSEN Respect Awards is set to honor George Stephanopoulos, Ali Wentworth, Ilene Chaiken, and Optimedia on May 23 in New York.

Occurring alongside the Red Scare, the Lavender Scare was the simultaneous persecution of the LGBT employees of the government during the 1950s.

There's a swelling movement for greater diversity and representation in vdeogames with a number of LGBT videogame characters in your games.

You have to hand it to the Dutch: they were the first in everything, from selling marijuana in coffee shops to allowing same-sex marriage between couples.

If straight women have problems such as men coming from Mars, we have uniquely lesbian problems too. Here are five that lesbians have to deal with daily.

When artist Johniene Papandreas closed a door on one part of her life, she opened a window with her art, which can be seen in a new exhibit in California.

Edie Windsor and Jim Obergefell will be honored at the 3rd Annual American Military Partner Association National Gala this May for fighting for LGBT rights.

Though the lesbian umbrella covers all sorts of lesbians, we thought it would be interesting to deconstruct the different lesbian types we've come across.

The rise to power of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime encouraged them to go after the Jewish race while also targeting homosexuals and lesbians.

We'll be the first to admit that we don't know all there is about lesbianism. The truth is, there are a lot of lesbian facts that we don't know.

When feelings of attraction to the same sex was regarded as a mental illness back then, lesbians and gays were subjected to literally shocking treatment..

To celebrate Christmas Day, we thought you'd appreciate this video that shows the 13 LGBT milestones that changed the world in 2015.

After World War 2, the Daughters of Bilitis was formed by a group of lesbians who wanted to come out with other lesbians.

Almost 35 years since the AIDS virus was first discovered, the perspective of a generation that lived under its shadow is different from today's generation.

Rock icon David Bowie has constantly re-invented himself throughout the decades, this time as co-playwright for his play Lazarus. So what's it all about?

The death of Sandra Moran last November 7 left us a legacy not only of her stories but also the lessons she was trying to impart to us in her writing.

As a powerful voice for the trans people. Sylvia Rivera is now the first trans person to have a portrait in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

The use of the biblical passage of Ruth 1:16-17 in heterosexual weddings is ironic, given that these lines were uttered between two women, Ruth and Naomi.

As the best all-female-boot-stompin'-alt-country-rock band in the music scene, Antigone Rising wants to let young girls know that they can rock it, too.

11 artists are the lucky recipients of the Queer/Art/Mentorship 2015-2016 Fellowship program that pairs and supports mentorship among LGBTQI artists in NYC.