This Day in Queer History

On this day, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born. Known as Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland never married, and his sexual identity remains a subject of scholarly exploration.

On this day, lesbian fiction writer Sarah Aldridge was born. Under her pen name, she wrote fourteen novels, co-founded Naiad Press, and shared nearly sixty years with her partner Muriel Crawford.

On this day, Deborah Batts was nominated as the first openly lesbian and first African American federal judge, shattering two barriers at once on the U.S. bench.