Pride Marches On in Solidarity, Strength, and Song
By Lawrence Pfeil, Jr. As Pride 2020 draws to a close, the work left to be done towards equality and
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Our First Pride March — a Revolutionary Act of Courage Fifty Years Ago
By Lawrence Pfeil, Jr. 1970 “Chicago Seven” defendants found guilty of “intent to incite a riot” at 1968 DNC Convention
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UPDATED: Pride Weekend 2020 Schedule of Virtual Events and Videos
Wave your flags, clack your fans, and check your WiFi cuz Virtual Pride 2020 is here! The next three
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Transgender, What’s the Big Deal? I’ll Tell You
By Rita Renner, guest contributor I am transgender, male to female and have been post-operative for many years. It’s important
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Juneteenth 2020: “Hear Me Now,” My Message Continues
By Eric Owens “… And O my people, out yonder, Hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and
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Sankofa, An African American’s Ancestral Messenger
Editor’s note: As America continues its reckoning with social justice, police reform, and the Black Lives Matter movement sweeping the
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SCOTUS Rules 6 -3, Civil Rights Act Protects Transgender and Gay Employees from Discrimination
On Friday, the Trump Administration eliminated a regulation prohibiting discrimination in health care against patients who are transgender. Yesterday, in solidarity
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Pride Plays 2020, Four Live Streaming Benefits for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
By Lawrence Pfeil, Jr (via .playbill.com/) In celebration of Pride, Playbill and Pride Plays will present four live streamed readings
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UPDATE: Second Annual, “Criminal Queerness Festival” goes Global as part of NYC Pride
UPDATED June 9, 2020 In support of the Black Lives Matters movement, National Queer Theater and Dixon Place, in partnership
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Poet Activist, Audre Lorde: “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
A self-described, Black-Lesbian Feminist Mother Lover Warrior Poet Audre Lorde, a native New Yorker, was born in 1934 and an
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