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Billboards have always played a surprising role in LGBTQ+ rights
A road sign is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to get your message across.
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Equal parentage laws have never existed. But queer parents always have.
Historical figures like Oscar Wilde were forced to give up parental rights due to their sexual orientation. And LGBTQ+ parents today are still at risk.
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How a gay Holocaust survivor-turned-Nazi hunter took down one of the Reich’s most prominent leaders
Fritz Bauer single-handedly brought dozens of war criminals to justice for an untold number of human rights offenses.
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Country music has always been queer…seriously
Rebels in lavender cowboy hats existed long before Orville Peck and Lil Nas X were on the scene.
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We’ll learn how to win: HRC’s first leader says history proves LGBTQ+ folks can take on the right
“There is little doubt in my mind that we will overcome this,” said Victor Basile. “How much time that takes, I don’t know.”
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To hide our history is to deny our existence: Kids must learn what queer folks have given the world
Queer people gave us computers, the Mona Lisa, and “Where the Wild Things Are.” LGBTQ+ youth deserve to see that they aren’t alone.
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A lesbian WWII vet was renowned for standing up to Eisenhower. Was it all a lie?
Johnnie Phelps may have fabricated the story, but she was still a pioneering lesbian advocate.
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This bisexual Black anarchist escaped from prison twice in the name of radical revolution
Kuwasi Balagoon was a New Afrikan Anarchist who viewed Black Americans as a “subjugated nation” that deserved to resist the conditions forced onto them.
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Unexpected allyship: How a California church became “the midwife of the modern LGBTQ movement”
Before the Stonewall Riots, there was the Vanguard Sweep. And it all started at the Glide Memorial Church.
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One of the world’s most iconic Asian nightclubs has been celebrating queerness for almost 3 decades
Club Kali emerged in the 1990s out of an intense need for freedom, dignity, and beautiful brown magic.