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1965 gay rights protest reenactment at White House on April 17
D.C.’s Rainbow History Project is inviting members of the local LGBTQ community and its supporters to participate in a reenactment of what it calls…
Month: April 2025
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Florida city tries to ban Pride over drag and security concerns
The municipal government of Naples, Florida has refused to grant Naples Pride an event permit, citing increased security costs due to a probable…
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Out gay gymnast nails his performance at Gymnastics World Cup
Gymnast Heath Thorpe, who has been publicly out as gay for years and embraces his role as an out athlete, is celebrating his big finish at the latest Gymnastics World Cup event…
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Budapest Pride mocks Orban with ‘Gray Pride’ march
For weeks, protesters have staged demonstrations in Budapest against the legislation, with thousands of queer folks and allies flooding the streets with signs and flags…
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Teacher fired for calling student by preferred name
A Florida teacher has lost her job for calling a student by their preferred name without obtaining parental consent. Melissa Calhoun has taught…
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Bowen Yang on going to ‘painful’ conversion therapy as a teen
I think I probably wasn’t brave enough back then to express that [what he was going through coming out as a teenager] or to package it in a way that…
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Kiplinger’s top picks for places for LGBT people to retire abroad
An irrefutable reality of being a member of the LGBTQ community, at any age, is that you must give more thought than non-LGBTQ people about…