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These trendsetting lesbian lovers fled 1920s America for Paris and lived their best life.

The Hotel Napoleon Bonaparte was perfect for our purposes,” wrote theater critic Solita Solano of the Parisian establishment where she and her partner Janet Flanner made their home in the 1920s. “It cost a dollar a day, and was near the Seine, the Louvre, and the auto buses.”

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Some surprises in Expedia’s list of LGBTQ-friendly cities around the world.

As we stretch further into the future, we can only hope that we meet diversity, equality, love, and the ability for everyone to be their true self head-on. The LGBTQ+ community embraces these ideals in a strong and visible way. Though global opinions are shifting, queer people still face special considerations when traveling or choosing where…

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Oregon school district accused of forcing LGBT students to read the bible as punishment.

In a complaint to the Oregon Department of Education, an administrator in the North Bend School District was accused of making students read from the Bible as a form of punishment, including at least one LGBT student. The district denies the allegation—even though both the administrator and his supervisor confirmed it and…  

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Was the Small Business Administration’s removal of LGBT outreach pages driven by politics?

Were politics or ideological differences behind the Small Business Administration’s removal of outreach web pages to the LGBT community after President Trump took office? Two House Democrats want answers. Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Yvette Clarke, New Yorkers who serve on the House Committee on Small Business, wrote this week…