Halloween is a night when we can embrace our inner creatures, trying on identities that might feel off-limits to us the rest of the year, and take to the streets as whatever we want to be. That freedom…
Several significant LGBTQ+ rights milestones happened in the month of October, and as a result, it was declared LGBTQ+ History Month in 1994, according to LGBTHistoryMonth.com. The first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights happened on…
Although Friends is widely-regarded as one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time, a groundbreaking 1996 episode was banned upon its original broadcast. Titled “The One with the Lesbian Wedding,”…
Young Jose Sarria thought he’d grow up to be a school teacher, not an influential drag queen, groundbreaking politician, significant activist, and war veteran. But he came to believe: “You don’t have to conform…
It’s Bisexual Awareness Week! To all our beloved bisexual readers: We got you! A July 1995 cover of Newsweek magazine has been making the rounds on social media. The hip feature story that week: Bisexuality…
Many people consider the Stonewall uprising to be the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. But before the raid that launched a thousand Pride parades — and many more rainbow-washing advertisements…
On this day in 1982, the first ever Gay Games kicked off in San Francisco, with the goal to promote the acceptance and inclusion of LGBT+ athletes in the sporting world. San Francisco has long been known as a very…
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