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10 LGBT milestones over the past 100 years
From the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to address homosexuality to the first bisexual “Bachelorette,” here are 10 historic LGBTQ milestones from around the world…
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Kiwi weightlifter to become first transgender Olympian
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has made history as the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympic Games. The 43-year-old New Zealander has become the first trans competitor to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. Laurel Hubbard, who is 16th in the…
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Zapping: The protest tactic that ignited early LGBT activism
Charles Silverstein was a university student in psychology when he attended a workshop at a behavioural therapy convention in October 1972. The topic was aversion therapy, a form of pseudoscientific conversion therapy in which gay men were administered electric shocks and other…
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Remembering the 49 lives stolen in the Pulse nightclub shooting
Five years ago, on 12 June 2016, 49 people were killed and 53 others wounded in a brutal mass shooting in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Around 320 people were inside Pulse nightclub when a 29-year-old man entered the building with two guns at a…
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Giants donate rainbow Pride cap to Baseball Hall of Fame
It’s impossible to get to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown without navigating through miles upon miles of two-lane upstate New York roads. Based on the types of signs and flags you encounter through a procession of Middleburghs and…
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This gay couple found a legal loophole to marry way back in 1971
Long before the push for marriage equality truly began, before Obergefell v Hodges, before the Defense of Marriage Act, there was Jack and Michael McConnell. This year Jack and Michael will celebrate 51 years of happy marriage, making them longest-wed…
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Once thought lost, the original rainbow flag comes home to SF
Thought to be lost due to water damage while in storage nearly 40 years ago, a piece of the original Rainbow Flag, which helped define the LGBTQ civil rights movement, was discovered in 2019. Now, it will stay in San Francisco…