In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell. 

Synth pioneer Wendy Carlos has given us eighteen albums, a massive website of personal writings and archival recordings, and a generation of trans synthesizer enthusiasts in her wake. For Halloween, we’re taking a look at her writings, her work, and the queer musicians she’s influenced.

In 1992, a millionaire playboy died in Mexico in the ruins of his Love Joy Palace Ashram. Almost thirty years prior, he handed Dr. Harry Benjamin a blank check and set the stage for trans healthcare as we know it today.

In the 1970s, a young trans man dug through newspapers and history to unearth the life and times of Jack Bee Garland, Thirty years later, a team of archivists did the same with his own story.

In the 1930s, the scrappy young leader of the Oxford womens’ rowing team almost single-handedly propelled the women’s side of the sport into respectability. Nearly a hundred years later, the kind of man he would later become would be banned from the exact same team.

On July 3, 1992, the body of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson was found floating in the Hudson. Thirty-three years later, the trans community still finds itself at the end of a gun.

People trying to suppress queer people with obscenity laws is nothing new, this long standing tactic has been repeatedly weaponized against us and anyone else bigots decide isn’t fit for public life.

One hundred years prior to the UK Supreme court decision to cease recognition of trans men and women as their respective genders, one writer spoke on the abolition of gender.

In 1925, the first passport ever issued to a woman without her husband's last name on it was sent to Doris Fleischman. One hundred years later, hundreds of trans folk lost theirs,

A comic based on trans news stories from the month of June 2024.

A roundup of trans news from the month of May 2024 featuring art by Piper Bly.