Independence Day

Who is Independence Day for?

America’s need to showcase her nativist spirit of patriotism comes at the expense of fundamental freedoms and protections.

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Meet the gay man who won America her independence

This is the dude who deserves the credit, and we bet you never heard of him.

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To resist is American

Remember that it's your country too, and the rights we have fought for and won, for the LGBTQ community and others, cannot be rolled back.

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Utah ‘freedom festival’ kicks LGBTQ group out of 4th of July parade

The reason given was that the Encircle: LGBT + Family & Youth Resource Center is a political advocacy group. Um, no.

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It’s the 4th of July and everybody’s tweeting

A fireworks show of tweets from Ellen, RuPaul, Janet Mock and even Joan Rivers awaits you.

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An LGBTQ Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident: we are all created equal, but we have not been treated as such.

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Meet the gay man who actually won America her independence

Without his leadership, our modern America might still be the British Colonies.

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Philadelphia July 4th events to recall bold 1965 gay rights protest

On the Fourth of July 50 years ago, when homosexuality was considered a mental illness and a same-sex couple's public declaration of love put their lives and livelihoods at risk, about 40 people took a stand…

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The Cannibals’ Feast for Independence Day

In those thousand years the evolution of government, self-government of the people, by the people and for the people, may well have become something far different than originally envisioned in 1776, or in the intervening period…

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An LGBT Declaration of Independence

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an oppressed minority to declare for themselves the full rights and responsibilities that the laws of reason, nature, and natures God entitles them, a decent…

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