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🌈 Today is Harvey Milk Day! Groundbreaking gay politician Harvey Milk would have turned 95 today. He was assassinated 47 years ago, but he continues to inspire activists in the present day — including his nephew, Stuart Milk. “He was my touchstone to my own authenticity,” says Stuart, who was 17 when his uncle died and came out as gay shortly afterward. “It’s a day when people can celebrate what he dreamed of, what we’ve come to, and remind us that we still have more work to do.”
⛰️ Transgender, queer, and allied activists unfurled earlier this week a 55-by-35-foot Trans Pride flag on El Capitan, a vertical rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park. The flag display is part of a project called Trans Is Natural, and the flag is the largest one ever hung on El Capitan, one of the world’s most popular wall-climbing sites. The display is “a celebration of trans belonging in nature, in community, and everywhere,” organizers said.
🎉 WorldPride kicked off this weekend in D.C. with Trans Pride — a series of celebrations and events focusing on trans lives, visibility, and joy. Equalpride's photo editor Nikki Aye and I were there. Check out photos from the weekend below. ⬇️
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
Editor-in-chief, The Advocate
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Harvey Milk Day is a day for both activism and celebration, says nephew Stuart Milk
Bettmann Contributor/Getty Images; Courtesy Harvey Milk Foundation
Target ending DEI proves when you follow Trump, on anything, you always lose in the end
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Activists hang Trans Pride flag in California's Yosemite National Park to protest erasure efforts
Jayce Kolinski/yosemite trans project (with permission)
Corporate sponsors like Pepsi, Nissan, Mastercard, and more pull back from NYC Pride
Kirkam/Shutterstock
New York man pleads guilty to threatening lesbian Michigan AG Dana Nessel
CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images
Florida district alleges teacher who used student's nickname was grooming them to 'become gay'
Hananeko_Studio via Shutterstock
When George Wendt’s Norm taught us gay stereotypes are the real joke in one of Cheers’ most seminal episodes
NBCUniversal
Philadelphia drag group offers fabulous reward for return of stolen 'Beardmobile'
footage still via facebook @beardedladiescabaret
44 photos of pure transgender joy and visibility at Trans Pride D.C. 2025
Nikki Aye for The Advocate
Lesbian teen brutally beaten at Illinois McDonald's in potential hate crime
footage still via CBS Chicago
Virginia Republican candidate for governor addresses grads at extremely anti-LGBTQ+ schools
Courtesy Winsome Sears campaign
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This week's question: What LGBTQ+ rights icon began a campaign in the 1960s against the federal government after he was fired from the U.S. Army Map Service over his sexuality?
This week's hint: He would have turned 100 this week.
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