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Revisiting the tragic fire that killed 32 in a New Orleans gay bar.
Until the Pulse nightclub massacre, the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire was the deadliest attack on LGBTQ citizens in US history.
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Historic Stonewall Inn in danger of shuttering because of COVID-19.
Amid a months-long shutdown due to the global pandemic, the Stonewall Inn, a cornerstone of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, has launched crowdfunding campaigns to keep it from shuttering for good. The bar, in New York City’s queer mecca, Greenwich Village…
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You might finally get a chance to watch the Prop 8 trial tapes.
At a virtual federal court hearing Wednesday, the judge indicated he’d likely unseal the tapes of the Proposition 8 trial. Judge William H. Orrick of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California stated that he will…
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British Museum adds five important LGBT artifacts to collection.
The British Museum has added five new LGBT+ artefacts to its collection, improving the diversity of its collection with priceless pieces of queer history. The pieces, which will be permanently displayed at the museum, include a “nine-bob note” from the…
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Meet 15 historical LGBT actors, writers, and figures for Pride.
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their favorite Wikipedia pages about historical queer figures. 🏳️🌈 Here are the fascinating results…
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Gay people found ways to ‘marry’ long before it was legal.
Queers have been getting married to one another long before the Obergefell Supreme Court decision in 2015 paved the way for nationwide marriage equality, and I don’t mean that in a metaphorical “they were married in their hearts” sense. Lesbians, gay…
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Meet Gay Bob, the doll that urged people to come out of the closet.
In 1860s Germany, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs urged other gay people to publicly reveal their sexual orientation. In 1914, Magnus Hirschfeld wrote of the revolutionary potential of respected gay women and men coming out en masse. By the late 1960s…