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LGBT History Month profile: AIDS Activist, Pedro Zamora
Pedro Zamora was an AIDS activist who appeared on MTV’s reality series “The Real World.” As the first openly gay and openly HIV-positive person on a television series, he brought national attention to HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues.
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LGBT History Month profile: Pioneering gay rights activist Lilli Vincenz
Lilli Vincenz is a pioneering gay rights activist. In 1965, she was the only lesbian to participate in the first White House picket. From 1965 to 1969, Vincenz demonstrated each Fourth of July in front of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. These protests, called Annual Reminders, launched the gay and lesbian civil rights movement.
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LGBT History Month profile: Political commentator, journalist Dan Savage
Dan Savage is an award-winning author, journalist, newspaper editor and political commentator. He launched the “It Gets Better” video project to combat bullying and prevent LGBT teen suicides.
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LGBT History Month profile: Youth Activist Constance McMillen
Constance McMillen became a poster child for LGBT rights after asking permission to bring her girlfriend to the prom. When her school responded by cancelling the prom, McMillen took legal action.
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LGBT History Month profile: David Kato, founder of Uganda gay rights movement
David Kato was the founder of Uganda’s LGBT civil rights movement. He was an outspoken advocate for equality in a country with some of the harshest anti-gay laws. His murder brought global attention to the plight of LGBT people in Uganda and Africa.
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Prominent gay rights leader Franklin Kameny, dies at 86
Franklin E. Kameny, one of the nation’s most prominent gay rights leaders, died in his home today from an apparent natural causes. He was 86.
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First They Came: Why we must find (and be) allies
As a movement, it is vital that we build stronger coalitions to achieve our goals. And in order to do that, we must find our allies and support them. We have to realize the strength there is in learning about and helping others who can help us achieve our goals.
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Activist Frank Kameny: ‘helping our brothers and sisters’ for 40 years
Dr. Frank Kameny is one of the most significant figures in the American equality movement — he has spent nearly four decades of fighting the establishment on our behalf. And now he needs OUR help…
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13 Gay rights activists arrested at White House protest of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Thirteen gay rights activists were arrested Monday after they handcuffed themselves to the White House’s north gate in a protest demonstration urging President Barack Obama to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s ban openly gay service members.
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LGBT veterans hold vigil at grave site of pioneering gay rights, military activist
A sparsely attended vigil was held this morning in Washington D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery at the grave site of Leonard Matlovich, the former U.S. Air Force Sergeant who was discharged in 1975 for disclosing that he was gay.