Jesse Milan, who has been an advocate for people living with HIV and AIDS for more than 30 years, said that one memory from 1992 has returned to him repeatedly over the course of his work and continues to inspire him…
On August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed. A photograph of a dented car shuddered throughout the news wires leaving billions reeling and in a death that drew out a complicated mix of anger and grief. In the years since…
Although surrounded by other protesters, the denim jacket clad man seems solitary as he hoists into the night sky with his right hand a protest sign written in all caps, as if silently screaming its message. It reads…
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably heard the phrase “sexuality is a spectrum”. In a way, we have Dr Alfred Kinsey to thank for that. In 1948, American biologist Dr Kinsey and associates Wardell Pomeroy and Clyde Martin developed the…
Stewart “Stu” Rasmussen, the first trans mayor in the United States, died on November 17 after several weeks under home hospice care battling metastatic prostate cancer. He was 73. Rasmussen, who used both he/him and she/her pronouns, became the first trans mayor…
Fred Hodges can still remember the names and faces of neighbors who are long gone. There was Irving, who adopted his lifelong partner, Ron, so they could have some sort of legal recognition while same-sex marriage was still banned in…
Tapes of the 2010 San Francisco federal trial that first struck down California’s same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional can be released to the public, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal ruled in a 2-1 decision November 18…
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