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The pandemic is taking away a celebration that, for generations, has given LGBTQ people a chance to dress however they please, and be whomever they want.

The Proud Boys, a far-right hate group, are enjoying increased attention thanks to President Trump. Gay Twitter users attempted to seize the spotlight from them, much to their dislike.

Star Trek star George Takei appears to have started the online campaign to reclaim the label Proud Boys from the far-right group.

‘The Closest Profiles Are Miles Away’ - Finding love is hard. Finding love as a 30-year-old gay man living in his parents’ basement on an Iowa dairy farm during a pandemic is impossible. Lying in darkness in a room with cement walls, I hear my parents upstairs. Last year they celebrated 40 years of marriage. Before my grandparents died, they celebrated 52. Should I download Grindr again? For the rural gays, that’s the best place to meet. But the closest profiles are miles away and they’re usually closeted married men. So I stay away. Lonely on acres of land, I dream of connection. — Jordon Deutmeyer

Filmmaker Rachel Mason, whose Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary “Circus of Books” explores her parents’ gay porn shop, writes about why we need to respect sex workers.

Queer Appalachia highlights important social issues affecting a vulnerable region — and collects donations from followers.

A report out Tuesday reveals an eye-opening fact: Nearly 1 in 3 LGBTQ people, or 32%, call the South their home. And the area is transforming, led by LGBTQ Southerners of color who are devising unique ways to build communities and uplift lives.

“It is critical that LGBTQ organizations do not think the quest for LGBTQ equality is separate, distinct, and devoid of the quest for racial justice. If I'm not free as a Black man, I cannot be free as a gay man.”

The long read: A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that

Suneel Khanna and Carl Wolter had to scrap their original plans of a wedding with 100 guests amid the COVID-19 lockdown. It didn’t make the day an...

Inspired by the civil rights movement, it was decades in the making.

A year-long scheme to train LGBT staff to be themselves, Courageous Leaders, is transforming teachers’ prospects - and their schools

Do married lesbians use the title “Mrs.?” The answer is often “no.” Women also have strong feelings about the word “wife.”

As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Institute for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the international situation.

The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes.

I realised that Joe and I shared our own gay culture the whole time we were married – we both loved the film Beaches

COVID-19 and AIDS are very different diseases. Still, there are eerie echoes of the destructive political bias that contributed to our AIDS failures, both in public health policy and in the activist community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Simmering cultural differences splitting Europe are flaring into an outright battle between the more conservative East and liberal West over issues of gender identity.

There’s an ongoing culture war within the queer community between those who advocate for public sex and those who believe it’s abhorrent.

A simultaneous un-coordinated shift in the symbol for the LGBT community is taking place due to an international focus on Black Lives Matters protests, vitriol in the UK press about trans lives, and the rainbow use for the NHS amid coronavirus.

The gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen was a central figure in the Stonewall riots.

Launch lineup includes The Nicholas Snow Show, Notes From Hollywood, HIGHRPOWRD, Hot In Palm Springs and Outinerary -  PromoHomo.TV-branded video content has reached hundreds of thousands of viewers on social media since April of 2016, but after sheltering in place to avoid novel coronavirus for several months in his one-bedroom apartment in the affordable housing complex affiliated with Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs, California, Multimedia Entertainment Activist Nicholas Snow is finally realizing his vision of expanding PromoHomo.TV into a full-fledged online network with five broadcast television-quality programs created for a global audience.

The Supreme Court ensured workplace protections for gay and transgender Americans, but all told, Monday was a draw for equal rights.

Democrats flooded Twitter and email inboxes this week with praise for the watershed Supreme Court decision shielding gay, lesbian and transgender people from job discrimination. Republicans — not so much. The court's 6-3 ruling came just two days after an event that played out in the opposite direction. Freshman GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, who’d officiated at a same-sex wedding, lost his party’s nomination in...

Immigration and family pressures pushed Freddy Grant and Burton Reynolds together fast, but an abiding affection for each other has kept them that way