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Spying: How the FBI secretly tracked gay activists in the 60s.

A story of queer liberation is concealed in a dystopian-looking crypt in Washington, D.C. You can’t find it under the gilded ceiling and marble columns of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building. Instead, you have to enter the mammoth, rectangular…

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Anti-gay zealot leads Pence’s session with black leaders.

Vice President Mike Pence, the former Indiana Governor who spurred national outrage for his vicious attacks on the LGBTQ community, picked an anti-gay extremist to lead a discussion with Black religious and political leaders. The meeting came a week after…

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Dozens of unmasked gay men caught partying on NYC street.

This Sunday, Facebook user Stephen James Markley (aka. drag performer Champagne Bubbles) posted an image of gay men closely congregating on a street corner in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan without wearing face masks even though New York City…

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Biden launches massive LGBT voter outreach program.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, former-Vice President Joe Biden, has announced a new voter outreach effort, Out For Biden, aimed at the LGBTQ community. While there are 11 million LGBTQ Americans eligible to vote in the upcoming presidential election, over 2 million aren’t…

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Pride: From anti-police action to a brand sponsored parade.

San Francisco’s first LGBTQ Pride parade was almost unrecognizable by today’s standards. To pay tribute to the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City—a six-day clash between police and queer bargoers in the West Village—around…

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What marriage equality meant to two Texan LGBT families.

Five years ago this month, the Supreme Court brought marriage equality to the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges. The decision forever changed what it means to be an LGBTQ+ American and the freedoms their families can enjoy.