When Karine Jean-Pierre stepped behind the podium to lead a White House briefing, the moment was quietly historic. Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary and an out lesbian, is the first LGBTQ+ person to take questions on behalf of a…
Earlier this week, Lady Gaga revealed on Instagram that her signature 2011 song “Born This Way” was inspired by Carl Bean, a famed gay Black activist known for his community work and empowering music in the 1970s. The announcement was…
Katie Sowers, who made history in the 2019 season by becoming the NFL’s first woman and first openly gay person to coach in a Super Bowl, has been hired by the Kansas City Chiefs as part of a program to increase…
A middle schooler in Florida’s Broward County school system was slammed to the ground by a fellow student in the hallway at school and called antigay epithets in an attack that was caught on tape and made the local news…
June typically means celebration in the LGBTQ community. From Pride marches to weddings, and the marking of milestones like the end of DOMA, marriage equality, and the Stonewall Riots, it is usually a rousing month. But this year, COVID casts…
Pride Toronto is a celebratory event held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in June each year. It is a celebration of the diversity of the LGBTQ community and one of the largest organized gay pride festivals in the world. The event…
First imagined by gay rights activist Cleve Jones in 1985, the AIDS Memorial Quilt—with 1,920 individual panels, each inscribed with the name of a person lost to AIDS—was displayed for the first time on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on…
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