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The reason why LGBT folks love Halloween so much.

Give me your fearsome ghouls and your flaming gays, your slutty zombies and your zany queens, for it is time for Halloween. Halloween isn’t just a holiday for LGBTQ people — it’s an institution. But why? Sure, there are the obvious parallels…

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Potholes along the yellow brick road of LGBT history.

Errors in published histories, misreading, selective perception, willful historical fiction on the big screen, little screen, and web; alternative facts simply made up to suit various agendas; and the desire to believe what some wish to be true have created…

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Remember when a drag queen inspired Disney? Simply Divine.

Thinking of Disney classics, many things quickly come to mind: romances, frog princes, girls being rescued (perhaps today even rescuing themselves), and many other archetypes, but certainly not a cult drag queen. Well, in the case of The Little Mermaid…

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A university used electroshock therapy on gays to cure them.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, had a way of treating LGBTQ people: electroshock therapy. In a revealing story from the Belfast Telegraph, a former patient given the pseudonym “John” shares his experience after he…