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The Obamas will produce an upcoming film about Bayard Rustin
The director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is attached to direct, and the writer of the Milk biopic is writing the screenplay.
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6 organizations to donate to in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day
What Dr. King’s beliefs regarding LGBTQ rights would have been remains complicated. Yours, however, do not have to be.
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Activists take a polar bear dip on New Year’s to protest nuclear warfare
“Today we are polar bears for peace.”
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Black history is now. I’m part of it & so are you.
Remember this Black History Month that being Black and LGBTQ is still groundbreaking in several places – even in our nation’s Capitol.
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Gay Civil Rights icon Bayard Rustin just got his sodomy conviction pardoned
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California pardoned Rustin, who was arrested in 1953 for having sex with men.
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Bayard Rustin was convicted for having sex with a man. Lawmakers want to finally address it.
Advocates in California want an official pardon as “an affirmation of what Rustin knew all along: that he was not a criminal for being gay.”
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James Baldwin, Marsha Johnson & more: 5 documentaries about being black & queer
You’ll learn something… and be entertained.
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Remembering the legacy of Bayard Rustin
Openly gay in an era far different from today, Rustin took his place among leaders of the 1963 March on Washington.
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LGBT History Month is as whitewashed as Tom Sawyer’s fence
It’s time to stop tokenizing a few people and share the larger history most people don’t know.
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Did you know there is an outdoor museum of LGBTQ history?
Chicago’s Legacy Walk teaches our history in a unique and fascinating manner.