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The ten most shocking LGBT stories of 2019.

LGBTQ news isn’t always positive, as these stories show. Just like every other year, LGBTQ people fell victim to violence, hate speech, and discrimination. Documenting these stories not only helps to humanize statistics about hatred and discrimination, but they help other victims…

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Excavating the LGBT history of Colonial Williamsburg.

ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1777, PRUSSIAN military officer Baron Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben arrived in America with his French live-in secretary and interpreter, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. Von Steuben had been summoned by Benjamin Franklin to train the Continental Army, at a time when…

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15 iconic LGBT moments from the last decade.

It’s been 50 years since the first brick was thrown at the Stonewall Inn — a moment some historians have deemed  the beginning of the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the US. In the half-century following the famed Stonewall riots, the landscape of…

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The surprising history of corporations and LGBT rights.

Gay pride parades increasingly include marchers representing corporations, from defense contractor Raytheon to telecommunications conglomerate Comcast. During the most recent Pride Month, Starbucks unveiled its “Pride Cup,” while Target released a Pride line of clothing and accessories…

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Homophobia and homosexuality during World War I.

More than a century before Apti Aluadinov, Chechnya’s deputy interior minister and a commander of its police forces, told out ABC reporter James Longman last month the same thing that Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has said, that there…