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For nearly five decades the dancers at Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo have used comedy, ballet and drag as a form of activism.

When Frank Kameny was fired by the government for being gay, he embarked on a lifelong fight for equal rights.

LGBTQ rights pioneer Kay Lahusen, photographer who documented early queer liberation history, dies at 91 Muri Assunção Kay Lahusen, one of the most influential voices in the history of the LGBTQ liberation movement died Wednesday at a hospital in West Chester, Pa. She was 91. Her death was confirmed by a friend, Judith Armstrong, according to The Associated Press. Lahusen is known as the country’s first openly gay photojournalist who documented the early struggle for LGBTQ r...

Lahusen is known as the country’s first openly gay photojournalist who documented the early struggle for LGBTQ rights.

arrow Arriving at SNL, February 2020. Jen Carlson / Gothamist There is a term in Portuguese, saudade, which my Portuguese-American sister-in-law tells me has "no absolute English translation." But it is meant to describe "a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves," according to Wikipedia, which also notes that, "Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had ...

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Beyond the Carolinas Jeanne Manford. (Photo Credit: PFLAG) WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Dec. 4, Jeanne Manford, the mother who inspired a movement of parents, families and allies to advocate for their LGBTQ loved ones would have been 100 years old. The organization she helped to found honored Manford who showed a strong commitment to the advocacy that resulted in establishing what is the nation’s first organization of its kind, PFLAG National shared. The organization partnered with the Making...