Every wedding is an important day. But some marriages make history — such as the unions that signal a country’s acceptance of LGBT rights for the first time. Last week 27-year-old Sharni Edwards and Robyn Peoples, 26, became the first gay couple to…
At 8 PM on the evening of Friday, July 13, 1934, German Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler stepped to the speaker’s lectern of the Reichstag in Berlin’s Kroll Opera House to explain his murderous conduct during the recent Nazi “Blood Purge” against the…
As part of the activities for Golden Gate Park’s 150th anniversary, portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed in San Francisco for three days in April. The quilt display will consist of 1,920 panels, approximately the same size and…
Black LGBTQ people have profoundly shaped American culture — and yet, it’s rare to see their full identities acknowledged. In Black spaces, revolutionaries like Angela Davis and James Baldwin are celebrated for their pro-Black activism while their queerness is left out…
In 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, Robert Dover made Olympics history by blazing a trail for generations of gay athletes to come. That was when Dover matter-of-factly told the public that he was gay. In our latest episode of…
Susan B. Anthony was born 200 years ago in a country where few women or people of color dared to give political speeches on public platforms and that had no national voting rights for women. Both straight and queer women were often…
You probably know what it means to “come out” as gay. You may even have heard the expression used in relation to other kinds of identity, such as being undocumented. But do you know where the term comes from?…
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