Taking place every June, Pride Month celebrates the self-affirmation, dignity, equality and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The month-long celebration was given the name “Pride” to encourage those feelings as the community comes together to celebrate and bolster…
Lots of gay guys will tell you that the moment they knew they were gay was when they lingered in the underwear aisle of a department store as a kid, ogling the torsos on the packaging. Another version of that…
First imagined by gay rights activist Cleve Jones in 1985, the AIDS Memorial Quilt—with 1,920 individual panels, each inscribed with the name of a person lost to AIDS—was displayed for the first time on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on…
Forty years ago this summer, the first news emerged about rare diseases that were killing gay and bisexual men. No one could know then that the events heralded a global pandemic, but fear was there in the early days — fear…
Directed by David Pablos, the movie is a dramatized retelling of the infamous Mexico City police raid of an LGBTQ+ gathering. The film follows Ignacio de la Torre y Mier – a politician and son in law to the President of Mexico…
Ahead of Pride Month in June, FX Networks will air a documentary series chronicling the LGBTQ community’s fight for civil rights in the United States across six decades. Directed by seven renowned queer filmmakers, “Pride” is a six-episode limited series…
In the summer of 1953, Audrey Hartmann was 23 years old and on vacation with friends. She was staying in Ocean Bay Park, a small beach town on Fire Island, 60 miles from New York City. She’d heard whispers about a place down…
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