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FBI recovers stolen gay icon.

The ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” are finally returning home. Thirteen years after the pair of sparkly shoes was stolen from a Minnesota museum, the FBI announced on Tuesday it had recovered the costume pieces during a…    

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Flash mob paints rainbow crosswalks in Oakland.

This past Sunday a group of scofflaw street painters put in rainbow crosswalks at Telegraph and 66th in Oakland. Oakland Pride, advocates for the LGBTQ community in the East Bay, has lobbied unsuccessfully…      

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Drag Queen Story Hour sparks protests in the South.

Once upon a time, in 2015, a writer in San Francisco named Michelle Tea got the idea for “Drag Queen Story Hour”: men in full drag reading children’s books to kids and parents in programs aimed at providing “positive and unabashedly queer role models.”      

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Gay parents not allowed to both board early with toddler.

Flying with a toddler on a long-haul flight takes extra work and preparation, so the last thing a family with a young child needs is for an airline or airline staff member to make the journey any harder than necessary. Unfortunately, for a family of three…