Queer as German Folk | Queer Perspectives
Queer Life

In protest against the commercialization of the Pride Parades, the Dyke March in Washington in 2019 experienced a new edition. More than a quarter of a century after its premiere, it is apparently time again for political statements from the queer scene.

How do queer people plan their old age? Sabine Arnolds of the umbrella organization Lesben und Alter explains why older queer people need to be part of Pride and how we can approach one another with respect.

Grand gestures, strange fashions and unlikely dramas: Every generation of gay men rediscovers their happiness at the ESC. Peter Rehberg tells of his childhood.

“My taste in art was faggy before I could be.” William Johnson allows us to share in his development as a writer. He lives in Brooklyn and is a publisher of a literary journal dedicated to showcasing queer/gay writings.

In Montreal, following years of institutional discrimination, a broad queer movement mobilized in response to the police raid of the Garage club on July 15, 1990. What can we learn from the aftermath of this police attack on an after-hours party?

The Latin American history of queerness spans generations of famous representatives: Juan Gabriel, Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas. Liliana Macias uses the example of these dazzling personalities to shed light on the complex connections between queerness and Latinidad.

New York, 1969: Drag queens, transgender people, gays, and lesbians, among them many people of color and homeless youth. The Stonewall Inn. A raid on the popular bar, but this time around the motley crew resists the police’s brutality.

Next to men and women, some indigenous peoples in the Mexican state of Oaxaca recognize a third gender: the muxe. Lukas Avendaño describes his experiences with the muxeidad.

Mixed race, Two Spirit person Nicole Tanguay on how cultural representation can be more important than queer identity. 

Chanelle Gallant reflects on a women's bathhouse raid in Toronto as an example of the longstanding practice of law enforcement as a means of oppression against minorities, especially in the LGBTQ comunities.

San Francisco has over 100 years of queer history to tell. The first gay bar in town opened in 1908. Jim van Buskirk remembers the locations that laid the groundwork for the queer liberation movement.

“And drove us into a ditch where we could only defend ourselves”: Alex Alí Méndez Díaz describes the special way who Mexico goes to enforce same-sex marriages.