By Aila Boyd
The Blue Ridge Lambda Press was one of several LGBTQ+ newsletters produced in the area between the 1970s and early 2010s. The press grew out of the Blue Ridge Lambda Alliance, which formed around 1980 in Lynchburg—the home base of televang…
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By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
As a writer, my characters’ queerness is always as central to their stories as their Blackness, their gender, or their size. For me, this is what it means to create full characters: they have multiple facets, live in multiple …
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By Suzaan Boettger
But here is my difference: I have a library within a library, and it replicates my subject’s. Reading books that were in Smithson’s collection revealed characteristics he had kept under cover.
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Pride Month celebrates and honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan each June. The Stonewall Uprising was monumental for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Pride Month celebrates everyone who champions LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bise…
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It seems incredibly appropriate that our interview with Darcy Michael and Jeremy Baer, the Vancouver area couple whose comedic videos have exploded on TikTok and other social media is from their bed in a hotel room in Minneapolis, where they appeared a…
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By Mike Maimone
Music has always been cathartic for me, but in this one area, I felt blocked from releasing anxieties via artistic expression. Although I was out, I felt stuck in a different closet. All that changed when I met Howard.
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50 States, 50 Grants, 5000 Voices program, supported by American Eagle and Aerie, will fund efforts to uplift and empower LGBTQ+ students at 71 schools across the U.S. and Canada
It Gets Better, the world’s largest storytelling effort to uplift LGBTQ+…
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By Frank Perez
Today, despite a major paradigm shift in public attitudes toward homosexuality and the criminalization of Exodus-type ministries in many states, conversion therapy stubbornly persists.
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To inspire and increase allyship, the program will support and protect essential safe spaces for 21+ adults in the LGBTQ+ community through educational resources, trainings and monetary support
Absolut, a steadfast supporter of the LGBTQ+ community for…
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By Camille Kellogg
Growing up, I certainly knew that butch lesbians existed. But it never crossed my mind that being butch was an actual, viable option for my future.
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The new Quo Beauty pride collection helps provide peer support, education and advocacy of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community through partnership with Pflag Canada
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (“Shoppers Drug Mart”) is once again supporting Canadians as they…
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2023 SKITTLES® Pride Packs highlight meaningful LGBTQ+ stories this June in collaboration with Audible, GLAAD and artists within the LGBTQ+ community.
As part of its ongoing mission to support and increase visibility for the LGBTQ+ community, the SKITT…
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The Prime Video #NotJustForShow initiatives include a Prime Video Pride Parade float, an open-air viewing party for The Lake Season Two in Toronto, and a 24-hour campaign takeover of the largest Digital Board in Canada at Yonge-Dundas
To celebrate Prid…
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Leading Italian smart lighting brand,
Available through the free Twinkly app (for iOS and Android), anyone with a Twinkly product can use Twinkly’s unique mapping function to create a pattern or choose from a selection of new premade Pride effects that…
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The Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations, announced that approximately $2.6 million has been allocated to 11 new projects undertaken by 10 Indigenous women’s organizations across Canada with the unique knowledge and expertise …
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Every day, LGBTQI+ people around the world face discrimination, persecution, and violence, just because of who they are or who they love. In 2023, we continue to see LGBTQI+ rights under attack – forcing people out of their homes and their communities….
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By John Boyce
In an increasingly fractured European political landscape, a bigoted minority with the right leverage has the potential to endanger hard won progress on LGBTQ rights, and challenges the long held assumption that, to paraphrase MLK, the ar…
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By John Brady McDonald, (Nehiyawak-Métis)
While it is true that it has been over twenty years since I’ve been in a relationship with a man, it’s always awkward to explain to others that my attraction to men isn’t something I ‘switched off,’ and that it…
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By Lucky Issar
Apart from being a history professor, Saleem was a queer activist, overtly subdued, but emphatically resilient. He eagerly offered his solidarity to a variety of causes, but he did not beat his chest or shout slogans.
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