A group of Boston conservatives say they’ve convinced city officials to greenlight a “straight pride” parade scheduled to take place August 31. A group called Super Happy Fun America is organizing the event. The group’s president, John Hugo, “started Super Happy…
A photo of a Sikh man wearing a rainbow turban at a gay pride event has gone viral – and people are thanking him for expressing his identity and for his inclusive message. Jiwandeep Kohli took to Twitter on Saturday to…
As we mark Pride Month and celebrate how we have come as a community, this story is a stark reminder that there is still a long way to go until we have completely stamped out bigotry. An Alabama mayor has…
I first came to know the word “queer” when I was twelve, as I sashayed around the car to help my mother unload groceries. I said some sassy comment, some quip. She lifted her head, looked at me, and said…
Qatar bans homosexuality, but the Qatar-backed Al Jazeera’s AJ+ still recently marked June as LGBT Pride Month with a tweet about speaking to the cast of “Queer Eye” on LGBT issues. The interview highlighted “gender visibility, religion’s effect on youth…
Target, the object of long-running Christian group boycott — because of its opening of bathrooms and dressing rooms to those of both sexes — has now found a new way to bolster its prestige with the LGBTQ movement: The retailer is selling…
In the 1960s and ’70s, amid a climate of political upheaval and civil rights activism, LGBT communities across the US were uniting for visibility and change. Events like the 1969 Stonewall riots, which saw LGBT activists rise up against discrimination in…
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