Holland Approves Citywide LGBTQ Protections
The nine-year wait to pass anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ residents of the city of Holland is over. It took a seven-hour City Council meeting that [...]
D.C. Installs 'Progress Pride' Rainbow Flag Crosswalk
Representatives of the Office of the Mayor as well as the Director of the D.C. Department of Transportation looked on as a rainbow crosswalk was installed at [...]
Gay and Proud' Historical Film Provides Look Back at Early Pride March
As June 28 approaches, the LGBTQ community around the world prepares to commemorate the Stonewall riots that happened on that date in 1969. But as significant [...]
HISTORIC: Supreme Court Rules Firing Workers for Being LGBTQ is Illegal
In a historic development, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday federal law bars discrimination against workers for being LGBTQ, affirming long-sought [...]
Shockwaves from Stonewall: Revisiting Gay Liberation in Michigan
The Stonewall uprising had reverb. Multiple nights of rioting against police in June 1969 sent shockwaves across the country and sparked gay organizing on a [...]
21 Years Advocating and Out
Rachel Crandall-Crocker has two birthdays: the day she was born and the day she began living her truth. Friday, Nov. 2, commemorates her second. That was the [...]
Willyce Kim Wrote Her Own Story
BY JASON VILLEMEZ, LGBTQ HISTORY PROJECT Willyce Kim is the first Asian-American lesbian writer to be published in the U.S. She spent her childhood years in [...]
Mattachine Society Members Were Early Crusaders for Queer Rights
BY JOHN MCDONALD, LGBTQ HISTORY PROJECT Lost in the celebrations of this year's Pride was the death of a historical crusader for LGBTQ rights. The passing of [...]
Archive Documents Late San Francisco Mayor Moscone's Close LGBTQ Ties
In June 1977 an irate San Francisco resident mailed off a letter to then-mayor George Moscone. The focus of his ire was the planned Pride celebration at the [...]
LDS Ancestry Database to Add Same-Sex Families
During Pride Month in June, LGBTQ people interested in family history received interesting news: beginning next year, the world's largest genealogy [...]
