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Rotha Lintorn-Orman, WW1 ambulance driver, lesbian, and founder of the British fascists - history is strange. Photo from 1916

A scene from "Different From The Others", a 1919 Weimar German silent film about LGBT acceptance

British commandos train to make crossings under (simulated) artillery fire, Scotland, WW2, 1943

Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon, 1895

Men of No. 51 Commando, a unit formed out of Jewish and Arab volunteers from the British Mandate of Palestine, WW2, 1941

British commandos coming ashore at Gold Beach, Normandy, D-Day, WW2, 1944

Edward Carpenter, socialist and early gay rights activist, UK, 1905

Gay liberation sign at an anti-war protest, USA, Vietnam War, 1970

Ruins of Ctesiphon, Iraq, 1932

Willem Arondéus, openly gay man and member of the Dutch Resistance, executed 1943 after an attack on a Nazi registration office, date of photo unknown?

LGBT protest in front of a US Army office, New York City, 1964

The first 'Pink Picnic' in Hungary, an early public LGBT event in the country, Budapest, 1992

Drag queens dancing together in Berlin, Weimar Germany, 1926

Nazi cretins burning thousands of texts on LGBT studies, Berlin, 1933

Photo of a Hijra (third-gender individual) in India, ~1860

A lesbian couple, 1915

Early LGBT rights march, UK, 1972

Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII

Evolution of Hokusai's "Great Wave" (1792-1831)

Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times - Book of nursery rhyme parodies about WWI (1914) - link for a scan in the body