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vintage photo gallery TOO GOOD TO GET MARRIED The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
News

These vintage photos by Alice Austen depict queer life and breaking with gender of norms

Trailblazing photographer Alice Austen photographed women in sports and created self portraits with her female partner over their decades together.

​Central Alabama Pride celebration 2024
Exclusives

Sweet Pride Alabama: Celebrating LGBTQ+ lives in the Deep South

Central Alabama Pride has been awarded The Advocate’s inaugural Communities of Pride Award.
France LGBTQIA Memorial by French artist Jean-Luc Verna
News

Paris unveils memorial to LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi atrocities

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo unveiled the sculpture, reminding Parisians not to forget LGBTQ+ history.

All Boys Aren't Blue book cover over a bookshelf background alongside author George M Johnson
Arts & Entertainment

Their LGBTQ+ book is the most challenged in America. Here's why they aren't giving up

George M. Johnson's novel All Boys Aren't Blue released five years ago. Since then, it has become the most banned book in the country.

Kabul Afghanistan women in burqas and men with traditional dress outside a mosque surrounded by white birds
News

From Afghanistan to Malaysia, these are the 61 countries that still criminalize homosexuality

Today, over five dozen countries still have laws making same-sex sexual relations illegal. Many of these laws stem from colonial rule.

Flintstones cartoon car Dick Van Dyke Cell phone in hand information search icons illustration of DJT as clown jester toy
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Trump's DOD censored the Enola Gay. Here's 11 things his moronic DEI purge could also remove

Just what is next after censoring the Enola Gay? We have some predictions equally ridiculous to real life.

Pete Hegseth US Navy portrait of then Ens Harvey Milk
Politics

Pete Hegseth gloats about the Navy erasing LGBTQ+ rights icon Harvey Milk's name from ship

Harvey Milk, the LGBTQ+ civil rights icon, was discharged from the Navy for his sexual orientation.

This Juneteenth, we celebrate the progress and power of Black Pride
History

This Juneteenth, we celebrate the progress and power of Black Pride

While the first Black Pride happened in D.C., cities across the country now celebrate with events centering Black queer experiences.

Newspaper clippings from the 1860s with cover of "Before Gender" book
History

The untold story of Sally-Tom, who legally changed her gender in the 1860s

This excerpt from Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History by Eli Erlick dispels the myth that transgender people are somehow a new phenomenon.

Frank Kameny 100th birthday SCOTUS protesters for LGBTQIA rights
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Jim Obergefell & other leaders honor LGBTQ+ rights icon Frank Kameny at U.S. Supreme Court (in photos)

The group also celebrated 10 years of marriage equality.
Marriage Equality USA poster during protest with gay couple posing in background 2011 San Francisco California
Politics

Marriage equality or same-sex marriage? Why the language matters

This is why The Advocate uses "marriage equality" over "same-sex marriage" or "gay marriage."

photo gallery Polaroids spanning from 1964 to 1991 documenting Houston male throuple John Jay Hollenburger Arthur Slaughter Gary Grether aka JAG and their social circle
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These three gay men began dating in 1970. Here are 50 Polaroid photos from their lives

A collection of over 9,700 Polaroid photos capturing the lives of a historic throuple has been unearthed.

holocaust prisoners in striped uniforms bearing triangular badges on parade in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin Germany 19th December 1938 while Nazi officers stand guard alongside Representatives of the ACT UP Dublin group walking with banners in the Dublin LGBTQ Pride Festival in 2019
News

What is the pink triangle? How a Nazi symbol became an emblem of LGBTQ+ rights

The pink triangle, used to identify LGBTQ+ prisoners in concentration camps, has since been reclaimed by queer activists.

1985: the year the AIDS crisis finally broke through the silence
History

1985: the year the AIDS crisis finally broke through the silence

A lot has happened in the four decades since. We take a look back.

Early NYC Pride Marches exhibit at The Hispanic Society Museum called Out of the Closets Into the Streets original vintage photography by Francisco Alvarado Juarez
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These 22 pics from 1970s NYC Pride marches show 'a moment without society’s prejudices'

An exhibition is showcasing the early marches of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement in 1970s New York City.

Two men in tuxedos getting married
News

The road to Obergefell: Looking back on a decade of marriage equality

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land. Here’s a look at what led up to that landmark decision.

Queer Happened Here photo retrospective 100 Years of NYC Landmark LGBTQ Places and celebrities book release
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11 historic photos of New York's LGBTQ+ history from the book Queer Happened Here

Marc Zinaman's Queer Happened Here "celebrates the indelible relationship between people and place, honoring the transformative power of pride, unity, and love." Check out select historic images from the book.

Frank Kameny speaking at a podium during street dedication ceremony June 2010
News

Remembering Frank Kameny: Here's why he was a gay rights pioneer

Kameny sued the federal government after he was fired for being gay, picketed the White House, and did much more to advance the movement. Here's what you need to know about the queer rights icon.

Why June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month
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Why June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month

The short answer is Stonewall, but there's more to Pride history.

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Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington DC Commonly known as The Castle
Politics

Donald Trump orders Women’s History Museum to remove trans people or lose funding

Trump has declared the accomplishments of trans people are “improper ideology.”