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CommentaryAndrea Jenkins on the power of Black trans resilience
The nation’s first out trans city council president lives two blocks from where George Floyd was murdered. She writes about where we go from here.
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CommentaryWhich LGBTQ person would you ask to write our Declaration of Independence?
The one name that we kept coming back to may be a bit surprising to you.
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LifeDon Lemon opens up about walking through fire to become one of the nation’s top news anchors
The award-winning journalist speaks with LGBTQ Nation about racism in America and how to turn fire into diamonds.
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PoliticsHouse Democrats seek to adopt resolution honoring & uplifting Black queer leaders
If adopted, the House will recognize “Black History Month as an important time to celebrate the remarkable and unique contributions of all LGBTQ+ Black Americans in United States history.”
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CommentaryThe LGBTQ community has fought for the right to exist. Now it’s time for us to fight for more.
In 2021, we have the opportunity as a community to stand up, in defense of others and ourselves, and decide what kind of society we will have.
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CommentaryThe Harlem Renaissance was as Queer as it was Black
Beginning a century ago, Black LGBTQ entertainers & writers expressed their identities freely. We have them to thank for much of our present society.
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LGBTQ HistoryThe history of same-sex relationships is the history of marriage
Unions between people of the same-sex are hardly new phenomena. Love is eternal.
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LifeBilly Porter says ‘hugely, violently homophobic’ music industry sabotaged his early career
“It just was never about the music. It was about trying to fix myself so other people would feel comfortable around me.”
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The Village Voice is dead + will leave a hole in the LGBTQ community
Iconic New York alternative newspaper The Village Voice has closed its doors for the last time.
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CommentaryLGBT 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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CommentaryDid you know there is an outdoor museum of LGBTQ history?
Chicago’s Legacy Walk teaches our history in a unique and fascinating manner.
