The Supreme Court’s June 15 decision in Bostok v. Clayton County, Georgia, extended federal workplace protections to LGBT employees for the first time. The decision came on the 50th anniversary of the first gay pride marches in the US in 1970…
A lightbulb went off when artist Touko Laaksonen saw stills of Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The 1953 film features Brando as Johnny Strabler, leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club. In a black leather jacket and white T-shirt, jeans…
A federal judge on Thursday ordered tapes of the Proposition 8 trial to be unsealed next month. “On the undisputed record before me, there is no justification, much less a compelling one, to keep the trial recordings under seal any longer,”…
The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City was marked in June 2019. This year saw the 50th anniversary of the city’s first Pride march, known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March. But on June 27 and 28, 1970…
As America has appeared to collectively wake up to the injustices marginalized communities — especially Black Americans — face daily, a controversy has been brewing around a beloved symbol of queer identity and diversity: The rainbow flag. Many members of the…
What happened inside the White House on the day that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality and legalized same-sex marriages nationwide? Former President Barack Obama has released a video on the five year anniversary of that momentous day…
Until the Pulse nightclub massacre, the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire was the deadliest attack on LGBTQ citizens in US history.
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