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15 iconic LGBT moments from the last decade.

It’s been 50 years since the first brick was thrown at the Stonewall Inn — a moment some historians have deemed  the beginning of the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the US. In the half-century following the famed Stonewall riots, the landscape of…

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The surprising history of corporations and LGBT rights.

Gay pride parades increasingly include marchers representing corporations, from defense contractor Raytheon to telecommunications conglomerate Comcast. During the most recent Pride Month, Starbucks unveiled its “Pride Cup,” while Target released a Pride line of clothing and accessories…

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Homophobia and homosexuality during World War I.

More than a century before Apti Aluadinov, Chechnya’s deputy interior minister and a commander of its police forces, told out ABC reporter James Longman last month the same thing that Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has said, that there…

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The reason why LGBT folks love Halloween so much.

Give me your fearsome ghouls and your flaming gays, your slutty zombies and your zany queens, for it is time for Halloween. Halloween isn’t just a holiday for LGBTQ people — it’s an institution. But why? Sure, there are the obvious parallels…