History is made at night

'Brutal police attack on disco women' by Michael Mason (Gay News [London], April 16-29, 1981) 'Lesbians attending the main s...

20 years ago - on 2 August 1997 - the second Summer Rites lesbian and gay free festival was held in Brixton's Brockwell Park. Coming ju...

The Guardian reported earlier this month (10 October): 'Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network ...

This weekend is the last chance to see 'A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance' at Tate Modern in London. The exhibition '...

'Drag is about many things . It is about clothes and sex. It subverts the dress codes that tell us what men and women should look li...

From the NME Guide to Rock & Roll London (early 1978), a guide to the Gay Scene starts with a warning: 'a note to all you guys &#...

Luc Sante is the 23rd person to complete the Dancing Questionnaire. Luc has written extensively on New York cultural history, and much mor...

A  while back I posted about the death of Katy Watson, feminist, Brixtonite, and radical  (among many other things). Sad news today from my...

Came aross this fragment in a letter I wrote a the end of January 1995, seemingly I had  had a busy month: 'me and Toby went to Taco ...

'After 1920 women who occasionally wore men's clothing and those who passed as men began to socialize more openly in cafes and night...

Richard Norton's Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook includes lots of fascinating material, not least in relation...

A while ago I posted chronologies of police and parties from 1996 and 1997 . Here's some more from 1994 and 1995, all from England unles...

Today is World AIDS Day, a day for everyone to reflect on the ongoing global health disaster that is HIV/AIDS. For me personally, a time to...

From Miami Herald, 14 October 2010: 'Raymond Castro, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, died in his hometown of...

Love this story... a protest for better conditions for San Francisco hotel workers (including healthcare), featuring a flashmob in a hotel l...

'Young people who gathered to celebrate spring by blowing bubbles at an annual flash mob in central St. Petersburg were attacked by a gr...

Kind of fascinated by the politics of the prom, that seasonal culture war on the dancefloor . We don't have anything quite like it in B...

I haven't got hold of a copy of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture by Alice Echols yet, but there's a very inte...

A school in Misssissippi has cancelled its prom dance rather than allow a lesbian student attend with her girlfriend. Here's the full st...

'Nine men dressed in women's clothing were arrested on New Year's Eve in the discotheque of a Manama, Bahrain, hotel and charged...