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LGBT History Month celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Icons. Each day in October, a new LGBT Icon will be featured in the following video.

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By Trebor Healey

“Did I even navigate childhood? I think I sort of shipwrecked, washed ashore, and found a cave.”

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By Edafe Okporo

 “Edafe Okporo, please rise,” the judge said upon returning. “Thank you for your bravery and courage. I am granting you permission to live in America.”

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By Richard Gartner

The next thing I knew, my body was trembling from the inside out. I was paralyzed and yet in vibratory motion at the same time.

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By Felice Cohen

What makes a love affair memorable? If it’s your first? Being caught in bed by your lover’s partner? Your first love dying? In my experience, it was all the above.

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  A slice of home security footage that went viral shows two Mormon missionaries arriving at a front door somewhere in Indiana and noticing a doormat with the words “Gayest Place in Town,” whereupon they take one […]

By Stephen Hanna and Bret Schuford

Our journey was full of surprises at every turn, but it was worth it.

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By Ann McMan

So does that mean I can still claim my identity as a lesbian? And if so, should I be afraid to say it out loud?

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By Geoff Cadman

That Gay Pride day on July 1st 1972 was filled with hope and determination and much has been achieved since. I do not like the huge cracks appearing in those first laid foundations. Below is my […]

By John R Killacky

“It is our intellectual journal.… If you want to deal with scholarly intelligent arguments, there’s really no place else we can publish,” writer/activist Larry Kramer was quoted as saying […]

By Kollyn Conrad

Identity is very fluid, and Lovato shows us that it’s okay to change and evolve.

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By Cheryl Klein

“It’s a personal decision” sounds so pat, so unhelpful. So instead I’ll say this: Face the wave. If it calls to you, ride it.

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By Gayla Turner

The groom standing next to my grandmother in those photos was not my grandfather, but a woman dressed in men’s clothing. 

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By Caitlin Billings

I’ve learned it’s important to grieve, not because someone has died but because they have gone away and returned from a new direction.

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By Byron Kennedy

My parents didn’t kick me out, but they did kick me out of their hearts. And I mourn the loss of their love to this day.

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Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog might best be described in paradoxical terms like “languid thriller.” Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and regarded early on as the front runner, this film bring […]

By Alessandro Ghidini

I could not make out what he was saying, but it didn’t matter: he was not talking to me.

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By Gary Eldon Peter

“Effeminate.” I had heard that before, in all its variations, both nouns and adjectives.

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By James Homan

The Atlantic Ocean was even more beautiful than the Pacific, and warmer, too. The clouds at night remained white during the night as well as the day, and I realized I was lost.

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By Richard Schneider
François Ozon’s new film was billed as a “Secret Screening” at the festival, as all information about it was embargoed. We knew only that John Waters described it as “a lu-lu,” and that descr […]