Modern History: The Historical Investigation 2025: LGBTQIA+ Movements

A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements

LGBTI Rights

Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender

Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras 1978-2022 Timeline

On this page, you can find data and visualisations on how the protection of LGBT+ rights has changed over time, and how it differs across countries.

LGBTQ+ history includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Key moments in LGBTQ+ history include the Stonewall Riots, the assassination of Harvey Milk, the AIDS crisis and marriage equality.

Before Stonewall: The Homophile Movement

1978: First gay Mardi Gras march, Sydney

A History of Pride in Australia

Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement.

Origins of the LGBTQ+ Movement

Welcome to Best Day, Worst Day. This is a podcast where I take the time to have a chat with a different LGBTIQA activist or creative and ask them to tell me about a good day they've had and a bad day they've had. Recorded and produced on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. This land that was forcibly taken from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. On this stolen land, systems and institutions have been built which are structured to exclude and oppress. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

This popular podcast is hosted by GLAAD award-winning journalist Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate. Each week, Masters interviews some of the most interesting LGBTQ+ people in the world. Notable guests include White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, queer icon Janelle Monáe, and trans healthcare advocate Jamison Green.

With 13 seasons of episodes to catch up on, this podcast brings “the voices of LGBTQ history to life through intimate conversations with champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.”Founder and host Eric Marcus digs into his decades-old audio archive (with help from the New York Public Library) of interviews to help shine a light on the largely hidden history of the LGBTQ+ community. Start in season 1 with an episode about Dear Abby, an early activist, or jump to more recent episodes about gay journalist Randy Shilts and radical lesbian feminist Jill Johnston.

Queer history podcast covering content from around the world and throughout time.
Hosts Alice McInnes, Jason Best, Eli Farrow, Irene McInnes.

Aiming to promote awareness of international LGBT issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBT community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBT people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.