Stories

Wiki Loves Pride 2025: A Step Towards Global Collaboration

June 2025 marked a milestone for the Wikimedia movement: for the first time, Wiki Loves Pride unfolded as a coordinated international campaign across the English, French, and Spanish Wikipedias, along with Wikimedia Commons, organized by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group. Running June 1–30 for Wikipedia and June 1–July 15 for Commons, the campaign combined article writing, photo uploads, edit-a-thons, and local events. Impact at a glance Francophone…

LGBT+ History Month Italia: Building Bridges Between Universities, Education and Activism

In this December 2024 piece, ICoHM member Chiara Beccalossi, co-founder of LGBT+ History Month Italia, writes about the first public demonstration for gay and lesbian rights in Italy, in Sanremo in April 1972; and about how this April 1972 demonstration inspired the selection of April as LGBT+ History Month Italia when it was founded in…

Gateway to Pride

On October 3, 2024, at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis (Missouri, USA), a large crowd gathered to walk the historic Gateway to Pride exhibit and to mark the 30th anniversary of the first (then-called) Lesbian and Gay History Month in the United States. Rodney Wilson, founder of LGBTQ+ History Month USA, gave opening…