... with a performance by the iconic gay singer and comedian Justin Vivian Bond. Also featured were a younger generation of activists and entertainers.Jason Baumann: LGBTQ history really isn't taught in schools. They aren’t being brought up given this history. We’re often given this kind of narrative ...
During the era of 1969’s Stonewall Riots, police raids against LGBTQ establishments were common. But when Stonewall patrons fought back, the modern gay rights movement was launched. On Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, Judy Woodruff gets perspective from Reverend Emma Chattin, activist and journalist George Johnson, The Anti-Violence Project’s Beverly Tillery and Mark Segal of Philadelphia Gay...
On a June night in 1969, patrons of a New York City gay bar called the Stonewall Inn battled with police and set in motion the modern movement for gay rights. Fifty years later, the milestone anniversary of the event has sparked observations and celebrations nationwide -- as well as reflections from LGBTQ Americans about...
... world still have work to do to ensure all readers see themselves on the page.” But, she wrote, the world of YA is “finally giving LGBTQ+ teens the literature they deserve.” In her own words, here are five of her favorites in LGBTQ young adult literature. 1. “If I Was ...
The 1969 police raid at Stonewall Inn in New York City was a watershed moment in LGBTQ history, when, after years of police harassment and mistreatment, the bar’s patrons fought back. The initial raid and the resulting violent protests began June 28, 1969, and lasted several days. Though the ...
... public life without discrimination" in employment, housing and "public spaces and services." The plan released Wednesday includes a universal health care system that would guarantee LGBTQ people access to hormone "and other gender-affirming treatments." O'Rourke also pledges to make it easier for LGBTQ refugee seeking U.S. asylum ...
The document rejected the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisted on the sexual "complementarity" of men and women to make babies.
... kinds of people she meets while traveling the country. "One of the most astounding things about Pete's candidacy is that it's not the LGBTQ community alone that's fueling it," she said. "The average guy says 'that Mayor Pete guy, he makes sense. He's smart, he's ...
... queer employees, he said in a letter released Friday. The announcement came in response to concerns from DOJ Pride, a group that represents thousands of LGBTQ employees at the Justice Department and its component agencies. The group's board of directors sent a letter to Barr last week that asked ...
The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBT activists in Russia charged Monday.
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