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One of America’s original anti-LGBTQ activists is dead
Reverend Lou Sheldon founded one of the first anti-LGBTQ hate groups, the Traditional Values Coalition.
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Iconic gay activist Larry Kramer passes away at 84
Susan Sontag once called him “one of America’s most valuable troublemakers.”
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The woman at the center of trans employment case currently before the Supreme Court has died
Aimee Stephens’ discrimination case was heard last October and the Supreme Court could issue a ruling as early as this week.
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Healthcare worker’s devastated partner reveals why government won’t pay death benefits
“He was the one taking care of your mum or your dad when they’re not able to take care of themselves. He was the one making sure they were dignified at the end.”
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Transgender woman found stabbed to death in Baltimore
“Ten years, ten bodies! Baltimoreans are you listening?”
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Iconic lesbian activist Phyllis Lyon passes away at 95
She founded the first lesbian organization in the US & her “courage changed the course of history,” said California’s governor.
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LGBTQ heroes don’t need to be perfect (or even perfectly respectable)
Nikki Araguz Loyd stubbornly refused to fit neatly into any of our culture’s convenient trans narratives: role model or villain, spotless heroine or tragic victim.
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The queer community lost two heroes you may not know. You should.
They may have changed your life & you didn’t know it.
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Pioneering gay cartoonist Howard Cruse dies at 75
Cruse’s masterwork, the bold graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, was published in 1995. It was based on his interior struggles as a closeted gay man during the civil rights era of the 1960s.
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George H. W. Bush blew GOP’s last chance to abandon anti-LGBTQ extremism
George H.W. Bush was a man of personal decency, but it never translated into helping us when he was president.