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Before you like and share a post, make sure it’s not reducing a complex issue down into a dumb rainbow-colored meme, one critic argues.

He believes “the correct direction for the country is toward respect, tolerance, and the quest for equality,” but fighting for LGBTQ equality is “not a cause I lay down for.”

She was a key figure in both the LGBTQ and feminist movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Yet today, not many people know her name.

The out actress who stars in the Netflix series “Grace & Frankie” is getting her prints placed in front of the TCL Chinese Theater.

Sabrina Haake has been active in fighting for LGBTQ rights for many years, and now she wants to go to Capitol Hill and take on the climate crisis and education system.

Trump’s fear-filled attempt to bully Greta Thunberg, and other young leaders like her, only shows that they are closer and closer to making the progress they are working for.

With Trump in office, the glass of American virtues seems mostly empty… until you look closer at the glass.

A celebrity named Jenner embroiled in controversy because of tone-deafness? Shocking!

The men are said to have chanted, “Trump, Trump, Trump!” and “Blue Live Matter” before launching a physical attack.

Right-wing blogger Theryn Meyer claims it is only conservatives who can guarantee “you the freedom to be who you are.”

“We negotiate life differently,” says 35-year-old Belo Cipirani.

“Airing this content thus can encourage children to learn and/or justify inappropriate behavior.”

They targeted Pastor Rick Warren’s meetup for hosting guests hostile to gays and Muslims.

Larry Kramer continues to rage. The playwright and activist turns 80 on Thursday and neither recent illness nor the glow of a new marriage has softened the urgency of his demands.

A modern day pro-LGBT Joan of Arc, Kathy Baldock’s advocacy is not from behind a computer screen, but face-to-face interaction with the most rabid anti-gay ministers in the U.S. evangelical movement.

Leslie Feinberg, the author best known for the 1993 novel “Stone Butch Blues,” died Saturday at home in Syracuse, N.Y., of “complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections,” according to Feinberg’s partner and spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, a poet and professor at Syracuse University. Feinberg was 65.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican gay rights activist who brought a legal challenge to the Caribbean island’s anti-sodomy law says he has withdrawn the case after growing fearful about his safety. Last year, Javed Jaghai made headlines after initiating a constitutional court challenge to Jamaica’s 1864 law that bans sex between men.

WASHINGTON — As an AIDS activist in the early 1990s, Gregg Gonsalves traveled to Washington to challenge the Food and Drug Administration. Gonsalves was part of the confrontational group Act Up, which staged protests outside the FDA’s headquarters, disrupted its public meetings and pressured its leaders into speeding up the approval of experimental drugs for patients …

NEW YORK — Storme DeLarverie, a lesbian activist who took part in the New York Stonewall riots in 1969 that si widely credited as the start of the gay rights movement in the United States, has died. She was 93.

Today is “Harvey Milk Day,” a day of honor for the slain gay rights activist, which is officially recognized by the State of California and celebrated by gay rights advocates worldwide.