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Crazed Proud Boys storm Drag Queen Story Hour at library

The Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group whose membership espouse hate-filled anti-gay/anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric disrupted a Drag Queen Story Hour event at the San Lorenzo Library located on Paseo Grande in Alameda County, California Saturday afternoon. Lt. Ray Kelly, the Alameda…

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Largest display of AIDS Memorial Quilt in a decade comes to SF

The National AIDS Memorial Quilt spans about 1.2 million square feet over its 48,000 textile panels — sewn and fastened into groups of eight — honoring 125,000 people who have died of HIV/AIDS since 1980. This weekend, 3,000 of those panels covered…

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Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day speech: annotated

On June 25, 1978, the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riot in New York City, Harvey Milk gave an impassioned speech to his fellow San Franciscans celebrating Gay Freedom Day. At the time, LGBTQ+ individuals around the country were dealing…

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6 of the most memorable moments from the 2022 Tonys

Broadway celebrated its first full season after the COVID lockdown with the 75th annual Tony Awards, hosted by a newly minted Oscar winner and spotlighting stage work that included a media-darling frontrunner (“A Strange Loop”), a historical pop confection (“Six”)…