24th September 2003: Actor Joe Locke is born. Best known for playing high school student Charlie Spring in Netflix hit series Heartstopper, Locke came out as gay on Instagram when he was only 12 years old. Happy birthday! #OnThisDay #Queerstory

23rd September 1999: Celebrate Bisexuality Day, now more commonly known as Bi Visibility Day, is celebrated for the first time during the International Lesbian and Gay Association Conference in South Africa. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

22nd September 2017: Thousands of LGBTQ+ activists and allies take to the streets in Brazil after a federal judge overturned the country’s ban on “conversion therapy”. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

21st September 1998: Will & Grace, the first prime-time programme that featured openly gay lead characters, premieres. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

20th September 2011: The US Military “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy is officially repealed. President Bill Clinton signed it into effect in 1993 and President Barack Obama was the one to repeal it. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

19th September 1992: US gay actor Frederick Combs dies of AIDS-related complications. He was best known for his roles in The Boys in the Band (1970), The Wild Wild West (1965) and The Silent Lovers (1980). #OnThisDay #Queerstory

18th September 2022: RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Cherry Valentine suddenly dies aged 28. Tributes poured in after news of the drag icon's passing was announced. #OnThisDay #Queerstory Read more 👉 buff.ly/E2n9tUC

17th September 1986: Trans songwriter SOPHIE is born. Known for her distinctive musical style, she is remembered as a"fearless trailblazer in electronic music". She died in 2021 after a fall in Athens, Greece. 👉 buff.ly/ByEpCqs #OnThisDay #Queerstory

16th September 2022: Zander Murray makes history by becoming the first Scottish senior football player to come out as gay. Read more 👉 buff.ly/Wu7xvIj #OnThisDay #Queerstory

15th September 1969: Gay Power, “New York’s First Homosexual Newspaper” and the first publication to emerge from the post-Stonewall movement, publishes its first issue. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

14th September 1954: American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz is born. He gained media attention in 1992 after spreading the ashes of his partner on White House grounds in protest of President Bush’s inaction in fighting AIDS. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

13th September 1990: Groundbreaking documentary Paris is Burning premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film explores the lives of the queer folks in New York City’s predominantly Black and Latino ballroom scene. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

Guess who published something new~

The Doll by Lapis Love

A short m/m erotica story featuring a poor man with bad luck who happens to fall in love with a mysterious stranger who looks *just* like the sex doll he was recently gifted.

Find here: books2read.com/The-Doll

#indieauthor #queerstory

12th September 1964: Author, editor, and graphic designer Chip Kidd is born. Best known for his iconic covers of the Jurassic Park and Batman: Black and White novels, Kidd was married to the late poet and Yale Review editor J. D. McClatchy. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

11th September 2023: The Prime Minister of Andorra, Xavier Espot Zamora, comes out as gay during an interview with the country's public broadcaster. Read more 👉 buff.ly/1qolB9V #OnThisDay #Queerstory

10th September 2002: In the legal case 'Du Toit v Minister of Welfare and Population Development', the Constitutional Court of South Africa rules that same-sex couples must be allowed to legally adopt children jointly. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

9th September 2019: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first Pride parade takes place in the country's capital city, Sarajevo. An estimated 2,000 people marched, making the country the last former Yugoslav nation to hold a Pride event. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

8th September 1975: The first openly gay veteran, Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, appears on the cover of TIME magazine. When he died, his epitaph read, “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one”. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

7th September 1969: Rudy Galindo, an openly gay and HIV Positive Olympic ice skater, is born. He is the first openly gay skating champion in the United States. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

6th September 2018: The Supreme Court in India issues a landmark unanimous verdict striking down the colonial-era law that criminalised same-sex relationships. #Onthisday #Queerstory