January 17, 2020 |
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 How Gay Art Survives in Beijing, as Censors Tighten Grip
An art gallery in China’s capital provides a lens into the city’s quietly present gay community.
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January 16, 2020 |
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 Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History
“Most historians taken seriously are always straight. They wouldn’t know a gay person if they took him to lunch.”
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 ‘K-pop for queer’: the LGBT choirs in South Korea singing for change in the conservative nation
South Korea’s Unnie Choir, described as ‘K-pop for queer’, and G-Voice, the country’s first gay choir, are part of an expanding network of LGBT choirs across Asia that use song to fight discrimination...
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 How the grand design led Jonathan Adler to Toronto’s Interior Design Show
A kid in a Rush T-shirt became an interior-design star thanks to clay, ‘my forever love.’
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 Transform: Seth Meyers, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ava DuVernay join fundraiser for transgender youth
Transform, a nonprofit that gives free clothes to kids and teens transitioning genders, has raised over $30,000 for a new building.
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January 15, 2020 |
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 Setting aside contracts for gay-owned businesses to be studied: Chicago City Council
The City Council signed off on a study of the idea proposed by Chicago’s first openly-gay mayor.
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January 13, 2020 |
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 Online efforts encourage LGBT Americans to mind financial wellness
Websites Debt Free Guys and Frügayity aim to help LGBTQ Americans take stock of their finance lives and empower themselves to best money roadblocks.
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 Aspen Gay Ski Week kicks off 43rd year of festivities, fundraising for LGBTQ+ community
...first “mountain du jour” skiing experience of the annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, which kicked off its 43-year anniversary Sunday.
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January 11, 2020 |
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 Connect with a range of LGBTQ+ people at weekly kikis
Just like the Scissor Sisters sing on their famous track, Rochesterites “wanna have a kiki.”
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 South Side Chicago Organization Puts Family Touch on HIV Treatment and PrEP Adherence Support
With a “for us, by us” approach, Brothers Health Collective in Chicago reaches a community often missed by larger organizations.
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January 10, 2020 |
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 The Boss: Joe Woolley, Nashville LGBT Chamber
Meet the guy who bought Jeff Bezos a drink.
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January 08, 2020 |
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 Butterfly dating app for transgender people debuts in India
Dating in India is hard. It’s harder if you’re gay. Transgender persons are, arguably, the worst off.
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 DTE, Consumers, Dow, Apple execs back new LGBTQ civil rights initiative in Michigan
After years of trying to extend civil rights protections to LGBTQ Michigan residents, a new coalition is prepared to go to voters this fall to amend the state's anti-discrimination law if lawmakers do...
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 A 19th-century book helped lay the foundation for gay rights. A Hopkins researcher just found a rare copy.
It's an unassuming little book, bound in olive green leather and stamped with gilt. Seven inches tall and less than 5 inches wide, it's small enough to be concealed in a coat pocket. Who would have th...
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January 07, 2020 |
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Gay comedy night at City Steam may be the start of a regular series
Local promoter Sky Casper latest event is "Gag Reflex," a gay stand-up comedy night 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at City Steam's Brew Ha Ha space.
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January 06, 2020 |
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 The LGBT+ Center Orlando opens Harlem Renaissance exhibit, 'As Gay as It Was Black'
The LGBT+ Center Orlando is presenting The Harlem Renaissance – As Gay as It Was Black, a traveling exhibit of the Stonewall National Museum & Archives, starting with an opening this Friday night....
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Why LGBTQ millennials want to leave Columbus, Georgia
Millennials and Gen Z in Columbus, Georgia who identify as LGBTQ say there is a tug of war to leave or stay because there are no resources, bars, or inclusive spaces for gay and trans people.
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January 03, 2020 |
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 Artist builds awareness for Arkansas' diverse LGBTQ community
Jody Travis Thompson doesn't ascribe to stereotypes for the LGBTQ community... The artist creates primarily in oil paints in his studio on Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville, he said. His works defy predi...
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January 02, 2020 |
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New Provincetown film festival director Rachael Brister excited for 'dream job'
Rachael Brister isn’t sure she believes in leaps of faith. But being named this week as the new CEO of the Provincetown Film Society and executive director of the Provincetown International Film Festi...
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 St. Charles clock tower was an important early example of queer visibility in Toronto
The St. Charles clock tower on Yonge St. was witness to so much history — and not always the type of history that we like to remember, writes JP Larocque.
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 With same-sex marriage vow renewals, Palm Springs Methodist church affirms support for all members
The ceremony included one marriage and 19 vow renewals. It came as the United Methodist Church implemented stricter LGBTQ rules.
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 Don't discriminate against LGBT Virginians
Foutz-Vega is a pastor at Forest Park Church in Roanoke.
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January 01, 2020 |
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 How the U.S. immigration system nearly tore this LGBTQ couple apart
After living as an openly gay couple in Honduras, Oscar Juarez Hernandez and Darwin Garcia Portillo thought the United States was the last place where their inability to get married might get in the w...
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December 31, 2019 |
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 The Poorest Among Us: 1 In 4 LGBT Southerners Live In Poverty
A new study reveals members of the LGBT community in a majority of states experience higher rates of poverty than their straight, cisgender neighbors.
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 India’s Gay Activists Grow in Numbers, but Acceptance Remains Elusive
Advocates for India's lesbian and gay communities are growing in numbers, but they say social stigma remains strong.
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 Chasten Buttigieg, spouse of Pete, to attend Palm Springs fundraiser
On Sunday, Jan. 5, Chasten Buttigieg, the mayor's husband, will headline two "brunch" events in Palm Springs
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December 30, 2019 |
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 Asia's first LGBT-focused streaming service tackles taboos one film at a time
A rom-com about a lesbian flight attendant and a romance in a gay spa are among the shows featured on Asia's first LGBT-focused streaming service, which is pushing boundaries in an often highly conser...
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 Two spirit couple seeks LGBTQ equality for South Dakota tribes
Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and Felipa De Leon are going tribe to tribe in South Dakota to advocate for protections and marriage equality for those who are “two spirit” — the modern umbrella t...
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 Meet the queer skate kids of San Francisco
The scene may be lacking in inclusivity, but these skaters are carving out their own space and they're unapologetically themselves.
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December 29, 2019 |
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 LGBTQ Rights Around The World Are In Danger, And The US Is Part Of The Problem
This was the decade when it became clear that “gay rights are human rights,” but it was also the decade when the very notion that humans have universal rights came under attack.
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December 28, 2019 |
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 More LGBTQ millennials plan to have kids regardless of income, survey finds
The price of parenthood can be costly for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, especially those dependent on assisted reproductive technology.
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 Finding myself as a gay black man in America
In the 8th grade, someone I looked up to told me, “As a black man in America, you already have two strikes against you and to be successful you have
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December 27, 2019 |
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 LGBTQ Elders Are More Likely to Be Socially Isolated, Suffer from Dementia Than Straight Peers
A new report by University of California San Francisco is making a big claim: LGBT people are at heightened risk of dementia.
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 Transgender Man Sends 4,000+ Christmas Cards To LGBT People Disowned By Families
A 21-year-old from Devon, England, who was left cut off from the world due to illness, has started the Rainbow Cards project to help the world's LGBT+
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 Perth's Scarlet full of Pride at Aussie twin triumph
Perth’s very own drag queen has officially cemented the relationship between the LGBT communities here in the Fair City and in Perth, Western Australia. Scarlet Skylar Rae travelled Down Under at the ...
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December 26, 2019 |
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 Russian LGBT Activist Faces Prison Time Over Social Media Pages
Yulia Tsvetkova, an artist and activist in Russia's Far East, runs social-media pages focusing on women's art and LGBT issues. Her posts prompted officials to charge her with “propaganda of nontraditi...
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 Prejudice and Pride: A decade of change for Tampa Bay’s LGBTQ community
Gay Pride recognition was once banned in Hillsborough County. Now Tampa has an openly gay mayor.
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December 25, 2019 |
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 ‘Worthless. Gutless. Loser.’ Online Attacks Escalate When the Mayor Is a Woman.
Female mayors are more than twice as likely as male mayors to experience psychological abuse and almost three times as likely to experience physical violence, a new study found.
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December 23, 2019 |
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 A Test for Foreign Teachers in Indonesia: Are You Gay?
Under a government regulation, teachers at some international schools face intrusive questions aimed at identifying those with “abnormal” sexual orientations.
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 A Gay American German in Hitler’s Berlin
If the destruction of European Jewry was the collective work, not just of Nazis, but of countless “ordinary men,” so too was the effort to prevent this great crime an accumulation of many individual a...
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 Lesbian Culture Went Viral, Finally, in 2019
From Megan Rapinoe to the “gay rights” meme, queer women's culture was all over the internet this year.
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December 20, 2019 |
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 Excavating a Queer History of Colonial Williamsburg
A new committee digs into the lives of 18th-century colonists who may have lived outside the norm.
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 More Than 80 Polish Towns Have Declared Themselves 'LGBTQ-Free Zones'
The European Parliament just voted to condemn the practice and demand the Polish government revoke the symbolic declarations.
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 Thai legislator forced to apologise over ‘shameful’ gay kiss in parliament that has divided the nation
A senior Thai legislator has been forced to apologise after two gay men kissed at a press conference in parliament on Wednesday. The conference was held by the Future Forward party to highlight Thaila...
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 Pride Portraits: The largest LGBTQIA+ visibility campaign
Visibility. Representation. Humanization. Meet the photographer who is spreading love throughout the LGBTQIA+ community one picture and story at a time.
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December 17, 2019 |
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 Vermont Pride Center celebrates 20th anniversary of civil unions
The Pride Center of Vermont celebrated the 20th anniversary of civil unions at the BCA center in Burlington. The Pride Center of Vermont works to support LQBTQ+ Vermonters by providing things like hea...
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December 16, 2019 |
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 Arkansas publisher gives a voice to LGBTQ authors who might not have been published otherwise
On Dec. 10, 2009, Bryan Borland deposited $1,000 into his bank account. The money had been given to him by his father, Jimmy, and was to be used to publish Bryan's first book of poetry, My Life as Ada...
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December 13, 2019 |
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 Queer Puerto Vallarta Is Worth Checking Out
LGBTQ travelers are discovering the quaint charms of Puerto Vallarta, the welcoming Pacific jewel perched between lush, jungle-covered mountains and a gorgeous bay.
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December 06, 2019 |
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 Pantene Is “Going Home for the Holidays” to Inspire Acceptance and Celebrate the LGBTQ+ Community This Holiday Season
Partnering with GLAAD and the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, the Brand Shines a Light on the Millions of Young LGBTQ+ People Who Feel They Can’t Come Home as Their True Selves
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December 04, 2019 |
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 Round Hole Square Peg 4 – International LGBTQ Photography Competition
A biennial international survey of the queer photographic gaze - WHAT IS QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY? Masculine, feminine, non-binary, gender-fluid – all perspectives tell our story - ROUND HOLE SQUARE PEG 4 i...
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 Do Polls Exaggerate the Challenges for a Gay Presidential Candidate?
They have a poor record on predicting behavior around social issues and disfavored groups.
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December 03, 2019 |
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 Michael Gunning: Gay swimmer overcomes prejudice to chase Olympic dream
Swimmer Michael Gunning is targeting the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after overcoming prejudice to succeed in the pool.
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December 02, 2019 |
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 Portugal lança sua primeira campanha focada no segmento
O Turismo LGBT ganha mais um reforço. Eleito pela terceira vez como melhor destino turístico do mundo em 2019, Portugal se tornou um case de su
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December 01, 2019 |
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 Forty years of sheer Heaven at the London superclub
The venue that first brought London’s gay culture into the mainstream is still going strong today after four decades of glamour, glitz and perspiration
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 'The HIV epidemic isn't over': 2nd of its kind HIV pharmacy opens in Toronto
An independent HIV specialty pharmacy opened its second location in Toronto, where anyone can go to get tested for free and fill prescriptions.
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 How community support is helping black gay men with HIV thrive
Thrive SS, an HIV support program founded in Atlanta, credits its popularity to forgoing federal funding.
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 ‘Digging your heroes out of trash cans’: Spotlighting gay writers who died of AIDS
Flyers reading “Have You Seen This Man?” were plastered around San Francisco when gay poet Karl Tierney disappeared in 1995. Now those words are the title of the first collection of his work.
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 World AIDS Day 2019: Theme, History and Facts about HIV and AIDS
World AIDS Day is held every year to support the 37 million people who live with HIV and remember those who have died from AIDS since it was discovered in the late 20th century.
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November 30, 2019 |
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 Club Ripples, Long Beach’s iconic gay bar, to close doors after decades of service to community
Club Ripples, an iconic Long Beach gay bar that’s been part of the fabric of the LGBT community for more than 40 years, will say a final goodbye this weekend.
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November 29, 2019 |
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 Queer Conversations: Going Home
With the holidays just around the corner, many students are booking flights and making plans for their journey home. However, for students of the LGBTQ+ community, the decision to go home is much more...
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Pride of the Americas set for Fort Lauderdale in April 2020
The Western Hemisphere's LGTBQ+ communities have been invited to Fort Lauderdale for Pride of the Americas April 21-26, 2020. But in order to be ready, organizers say they are looking for lots of volu...
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November 27, 2019 |
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 The origins of Out Making Games, the UK's first games industry LGBTQ+ network
We speak to the group's founders about its initial success and plans to spread awareness and support in 2020 and beyond
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 Osaka Tourism - A Melting Pot of LGBTQ Culture, Sports & Good Eats
As Osaka continues to welcome visitors from around the world, the city is particularly proud of three defining characteristics. Day or night, the city’s 24-hour attractions, a cultural hub in western ...
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November 26, 2019 |
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 More mental health support for Maori, Pacific, rural, LGBT communities
The government has announced up to 12,000 more people will receive mental health training over the next four years.
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 San Diegans share struggles of coming out as gay in Hispanic or Latino families
Two San Diegans discussed with News 8's Monique Griego their struggles and why they feel things are moving in a positive direction.
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 New Survey of Young Adults Uncovers Low Levels of Accurate Knowledge About HIV
Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, in partnership with Prevention Access Campaign today launched Owning HIV: Young Adults.
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November 25, 2019 |
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 All-transgender hockey team 'like an instant family'
The goals are big for an all-transgender hockey team known as Team Trans. Comprised of more than a dozen players from Canada and the United States, it's believed to be the first ice hockey team made e...
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 'A battle that we've won': LGBTQ military members get personal apologies
A number of former LGBTQ military members are finally receiving letters of apology from the Canadian Armed Forces — two years after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a formal apology for decades of...
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November 24, 2019 |
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 SF Lives: Learning what a gay man could do and be
Moisés Garcia wasn’t alive at the time The City was shaken by its tragic events of 41 years ago
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November 23, 2019 |
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 Equality Texas hires a new CEO
Ricardo Martinez hasn’t done lobbying work before, but his efforts helped repeal Arizona’s No Promo Homo law. Born in Mexico City, Martinez grew up in New York and has lived in Phoenix for the last fi...
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 Alaska discrimination against same-sex couples shows how marriage equality remains precarious after Obergefell v. Hodges.
A disturbing reminder that states can still try to chip away at same-sex couples’ right to wed.
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 Masked balls and gay uprisings: Queer Maps is a guide to 150 years of LGBTQ history
Online tool highlights 800 locations across Los Angeles, where many landmark institutions have closed their doors
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November 22, 2019 |
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 Meet Anastasia: Germany's first transgender army commander
The documentary film depicts the life of Anastasia Biefang as she transitions and takes command of a German military battalion. Biefang says she wanted to show "there are transgender people in th...
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November 21, 2019 |
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 WTM Africa & IGLTA Partner on LGBTQ+ Initiative EQUAL Africa for 2020
WTM Africa 2020 will see the introduction of an LGBTQ+ travel event named EQUAL Africa in partnership with IGLTA. EQUAL Africa stands for EQUAL Love, Rights, Experiences & Opportunities and will b...
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