On this page you will find resources that look at the lives of individual LGBTQ+ people throughout history, focusing on their experiences with relationships, community, and discrimination.
"Here are stories of some of the people, places and events involved in Lancaster and Morecambe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history. Many of these stories have national significance with regard to the movement towards equality for LGBT people in Britain."
"The Romani Cultural & Arts Company is proud to announce the launch of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive. This new online resource is the result of research carried out by the RCAC, with the support of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, and gives insight into the experience of LGBTQ+ individuals from a variety of international Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities."
"Surrey History Centre holds the memoirs of Harry Daley of Dorking (1901– 1971), Metropolitan Policeman, Merchant Seaman and one-time lover of the novelist E M Forster."
This website contains a digital collection of papers related to Frank Kameny (1925–2011), an American gay rights activist who lost his job at the U.S. Army's Army Map Service in Washington, D.C. because he was gay. The website includes correspondence, memorabilia, and appraisals of Kameny from others.
This is a short biographical article about Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895), a German lawyer and pioneer in sexology and the gay rights movement. He was one of the first people in modern history to identify specifically as a gay man and to publicly advocate for the rights of gay people.
This article looks at the Leendert Hasenbosch, a Dutch East India Company soldier who was marooned on Ascension Island as punishment for sodomy in 1725.
This blog post is about the life of Charles Forbes Cheston (1898–1975), who published a book in 1958 in which he describes some of his early same-sex encounters in London and his time in prison for homosexual offences. This book was published under an alias and the author was only later identified as Forbes Cheston.
"Millions of men and women from different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles made a contribution to help Britain during the First World War. This article highlights the stories of four men and women who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender."
