This is cope. It was, in fact, *incredibly* radical and subversive to be an out gay person for most of American history. Casting yourself as a pick-me and publicly shaming other LGBT people for Doing Activism Wrong is not going to make the bigots like you. You are doing the bigots' work for them.

Right before the buzzer for Pride month www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

A fully-funded queer history PhD opportunity!

20% of bisexual men saying they would vote Reform is... quite something (compared to 2% of bisexual women). But not too different from the 18% of gay men who would also vote Reform. I wish I could see more about the sample size and other demographic characteristics to understand this better.

“Academics want to promote their research outside of the university....However, in an increasingly queerphobic and transphobic public environment, this is becoming more difficult and riskier for researchers working on LGBTQ+ topics and they often face a backlash.” (Dr Charlotte Jones) 1/3

You can also explore BBIH's free online reading list 'Researching refugee and exile histories' buff.ly/4L820SL @brepols.net

This is great research but it’s always been plainly obvious that being hit square in the torso by a SUV instead of in the legs by a standard saloon car is going to hurt more

A bit of local news about the new Reform council in Calderdale (which covers Hebden Bridge - lesbian capital of the north - and Shibden Hall - home of Anne Lister/Gentleman Jack). No pride flags or other 'symbols of division' for us 😡 www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/people/...

"A lot of us had career knockbacks because of our sexuality and that has an impact on your earning, and that has an impact on, therefore your housing. Because if you are having to take a job at a lesser pay grade because of homophobia, then you haven't got as much resource."

🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

"UK universities have shed more than 30,000 jobs in the past three years..." Why is every sector worthy of governmental concern except ours? Even pretend concern? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont...

Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...

"Nearly three-quarters of gay and lesbian people are “out” to family and friends, but fewer than a third of bisexual people are, leaving them isolated and unsupported. Kyle was a brilliant, sensitive young man, yet what he wanted more than anything was to fit in as one of the guys"

In case you missed it, @alfiesteer.bsky.social has delved into our Oral History archive to explore MPs' memories of Section 28 and the wider struggle for gay rights in the late twentieth century.

As in the case of Section 28, the CoP’s effects will be highly uneven and more about fear and silencing than anything else. Carving out spaces in our own communities where its effects can’t be felt is an essential aspect of resisting it.

My furry editor and I are excited to announce the publication of my book, Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain!

'The decision to close it was taken despite the faculty continuing to plan high-profile campus events, including the booking this month of US civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw.' 1/2

Hot off the press - congrats, @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social! And what a fab cover!

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Made a coffee and praline cake for my mum’s birthday!

📣 Calling all historians of activism and social movements! We're planning a new undergrad module on Power and Protest in 19th/20th century Britain and we would LOVE your ideas on existing and emerging research. Key questions are "what is protest?" and "who gets to protest?" and topics include...

Time is running out - you have just one day left to apply for a FREE photo ID without a gender marker. 🔗 https://ow.ly/AKW650YMtJj #LGBTQVoting #LGBTQAdvocacy #yourvotematters #registertovote #ukpolitics #ukelection #ukvote #voterid #gendermarker #voterauthoritycertificate

⏰ We need to act fast! ⏰ We have less than a month to flood MP's inboxes and get them to rip up the EHRC's transphobic guidance 👇 https://goodlaw.social/lezs

every single bit of this is inhuman but to take a kids stuffed dinosaur on top of everything else is just pure evil, how empty of a person do you have to be to get up every morning and do this as your job

In 1976-78, the Grunwick dispute became a UK labour movement cause célèbre Dubbed the 'strikers in saris', the largely female and South Asian workforce fought for union recognition Recordings with key participants (in 2007) are available at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #Archive30 #SoundAndVision

To mark Lesbian Visibility Week here is a selection of articles from our queer history archive 🌈🗃️ First up is @sexhistorian.bsky.social discussing the slippery history of the dental dam and lesbian health activism.

I don't think anything more usefully summarises the UK than seeing the "left wing" government kick the fuck out of one of the few genuinely successful export sectors of the last ten years because racist pensioners who will never vote for them don't like foreigners.

It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants. archive.today/07Hdr

A celebration of wildness and wonder: the Peak District national park at 75

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

We’re facing a crisis in Sheffield. Seven potential guests – all young men in desperate need of a place to stay this week – have been referred to us. Could you help? Please message us or email [email protected] ❤️

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

I am 100% sure that have been more articles about youth gender surgeries than actual youth gender surgeries in 2026. When is someone going to reckon with the fact that ‘pivoting’ on this issue means signing on to a moral panic?

“It’s absurd for this government’s proposed guidance to suggest that schools need to seek clinical advice if a young person wants to change their name, uniform or hairstyle,” @transactualuk.bsky.social

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity? The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.

"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them" Direct quote.

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

Found in my parents’ house - a Visitors’ Guide to London from 1965. My favourite entry is the one on ‘Coffee Bars’, a ‘rendezvous for art students and young people’. In Soho, Chelsea and Knightsbridge, we are helpfully informed, they ‘frequently possess unusual décor or atmosphere’! ☕️

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

My review of 'Uneven' is now readable on History Today's website. Uneven sets out one way for bisexuals to reclaim a place in queer history. The problem is that it can sometimes seem like simply sorting historical figures into new, differently labelled boxes: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

The National Child Mortality Database repeatedly refused to tell us what they knew about LGBTQIA+ youth suicides. But we didn’t give up. Now we can finally reveal the full picture 👇