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19 photos from 1990s San Francisco show the roots of butch and femme culture

Chloe Sherman's RENEGADES San Francisco: the 1990s showcases the unique history of queer women.

Supermarket Sweep business partners gay couple host vintage collared sweater

Arts & Entertainment

Yes, the 'business partners' from 'Supermarket Sweep' were a gay couple — and they're still together

Tim Leach and Mark Dammann married in 2008, "the first day you could get married," and now both work as flight attendants.

Arts & Entertainment

The Wow That Is Director Zackary Drucker

Drucker is telling the complex stories of trans women in a way that humanizes them and underscores a community that is anything but monolithic.

Voices

Is Pete Buttigieg taking a page from Bill Clinton of the 1990s and triangulating? And is that a bad thing?

Opinion: Recent pronouncements by the former Transportation secretary seem to have him toeing the line on a fragile and shifting trifecta, writes John Casey.

Obituaries

Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone dies at 63

Beyond his career as an artist and designer, Christopher Ciccone also worked as a creative director for his sister, Madonna, in the 1990s.

Arts & Entertainment

1990s

19 photos from 1990s San Francisco show the roots of butch and femme culture

Chloe Sherman's RENEGADES San Francisco: the 1990s showcases the unique history of queer women.

Jason Mraz on why he waited to come out: 'Being gay was like the punch line of a joke'

Despite first rising to fame in 2002, the Grammy Award-winning musician and Dancing With the Stars contestant would wait until 2018 to come out as bisexual.

The Wow That Is Director Zackary Drucker

Drucker is telling the complex stories of trans women in a way that humanizes them and underscores a community that is anything but monolithic.

Relive Lesbian Culture of the Early 1990s with Sundays at Café Tabac

Preview of Ellen DeGeneres and Madonna Rocking Cone Bras Like its 1990

Is Pete Buttigieg taking a page from Bill Clinton of the 1990s and triangulating? And is that a bad thing?

Opinion: Recent pronouncements by the former Transportation secretary seem to have him toeing the line on a fragile and shifting trifecta, writes John Casey.

For Many Gay Men, the Current Pandemic Is Triggering HIV/AIDS Trauma

For this writer, 2020 harkens back to 1990.

Hank Hightower, Gay Adult Film Star, Dead at 57

Hank Hightower starred in dozens of adult films in the 1990s and 2000s.

Ryan Phillippe In Talks For New ABC Drama Secrets & Lies

Phillippe may return to the network where he played a gay teenager in the 1990s.

Willi Ninja, Godfather of Voguing, Honored in Google Doodle

The Doodle celebrates the anniversary of the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.

'It's Pat!': Why 'SNL' Character Costarred at Supreme Court Hearing

Justice Samuel Alito said he was not familiar with the character of indeterminate gender, a fixture of the show in the early 1990s.

Rent Cast on Tackling LGBTQ Representation, AIDS, Class in 2019

The actresses opened up about bringing the LGBTQ representation from the 1990s Broadway musical to a national audience.

Lance Bass Honors LGBT Fans During NSYNC Walk of Fame Induction

Bass regrets not being out when the boy band ruled the charts in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Poll Shows Power of Coming Out

A majority of Americans favor marriage equality, and most of them say that someone close to them is gay, a major change from the 1990s.

Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone dies at 63

Beyond his career as an artist and designer, Christopher Ciccone also worked as a creative director for his sister, Madonna, in the 1990s.

Like (Closeted) Mother, Like (Closeted) Daughter

Erin Judge -- a bisexual woman married to a man -- can relate to her mother's desire to stay closeted in 1990s Texas.

Susan Powter says she's a 'huge lesbian,' gives her biggest bit of dating advice

1990s fitness icon Susan Powter is now a "total lesbian" having "great love affairs, many girlfriends, big fun."

San Antonio Four Exonerated After Two-Decade Fight

The women, lesbians wrongly convicted of rape, were victims of "satanic panic" and pervasive homophobia in the 1990s, as an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Trans Pioneer Christie Lee Van De Putte Dead at 61

The effervescent trans woman was one of the first to sue for the right to survivor benefits in the late 1990s when her husband died of alleged medical malpractice.

NYC Schools Are Making LGBTQ History a Priority

The inclusive curriculum has finally won support - showing how far the school system has come since efforts in the early 1990s.

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1990s

Chloe Sherman's RENEGADES San Francisco: the 1990s showcases the unique history of queer women.

Tim Leach and Mark Dammann married in 2008, "the first day you could get married," and now both work as flight attendants.

Despite first rising to fame in 2002, the Grammy Award-winning musician and Dancing With the Stars contestant would wait until 2018 to come out as bisexual.

Drucker is telling the complex stories of trans women in a way that humanizes them and underscores a community that is anything but monolithic.

Opinion: Recent pronouncements by the former Transportation secretary seem to have him toeing the line on a fragile and shifting trifecta, writes John Casey.

For this writer, 2020 harkens back to 1990.

Hank Hightower starred in dozens of adult films in the 1990s and 2000s.

Phillippe may return to the network where he played a gay teenager in the 1990s.

The Doodle celebrates the anniversary of the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.

Justice Samuel Alito said he was not familiar with the character of indeterminate gender, a fixture of the show in the early 1990s.

The actresses opened up about bringing the LGBTQ representation from the 1990s Broadway musical to a national audience.

Bass regrets not being out when the boy band ruled the charts in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

A majority of Americans favor marriage equality, and most of them say that someone close to them is gay, a major change from the 1990s.

Beyond his career as an artist and designer, Christopher Ciccone also worked as a creative director for his sister, Madonna, in the 1990s.

Erin Judge -- a bisexual woman married to a man -- can relate to her mother's desire to stay closeted in 1990s Texas.

1990s fitness icon Susan Powter is now a "total lesbian" having "great love affairs, many girlfriends, big fun."

The women, lesbians wrongly convicted of rape, were victims of "satanic panic" and pervasive homophobia in the 1990s, as an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The effervescent trans woman was one of the first to sue for the right to survivor benefits in the late 1990s when her husband died of alleged medical malpractice.

The inclusive curriculum has finally won support - showing how far the school system has come since efforts in the early 1990s.