Sun coach Curt Miller: Visibility and representation matters for gay men in sports –...
Connecticut Sun coach Curt Miller saluted Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib and Wisconsin men's basketball director of basketball operations Marc VandeWettering for publicly coming out as gay over the...
Be gay, just don’t act gay (and other words I hope my daughter never...
By Melinda Munson
It was a beautiful gesture. Decadent chocolate and vanilla cupcakes topped with vanilla rainbow buttercream in honor of Pride Month, available at Lucy’s Bakery for $3.50. That’s $1.50 less...
Julie Rodgers shares story of surviving ‘ex-gay’ ministries in new book and Netflix documentary...
Conversion therapy survivor Julie Rodgers at church in “Pray Away,” directed by Kristine Stolakis. Image courtesy of Multitude FilmsCHICAGO (RNS) — Julie Rodgers has been on quite a journey.
Seven years...
First openly gay Miss America having baby with wife with IVF – TODAY
The first Miss America to marry a same sex partner shared she is expecting a baby with her wife this September. On an episode of the podcast Pregnantish, Dr. Deidre Downs...
Gay New London Police Officer’s Pride Month Post About Discrimination Goes Viral – WSHU
A social media post about discrimination from a New London police officer who is gay has reached more than a half million people.Officer Ryan Soccio posted the personal message on LinkedIn...
Pride Month Spotlight: Gay Games – USTA Florida
The Tokyo Olympics are set to kick off on July 23. Only the best of the best will have the opportunity to go for gold for their countries this summer. At...
New York lights up landmarks for gay pride – NEWS10 ABC
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — On Thursday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that landmarks across the state would be lit up in rainbow colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet—to celebrate Pride...
Connecticut Sun coach Curt Miller: Visibility and representation matters for gay men in sports...
Nassib’s announcement, which he made on Instagram Monday as Pride Month draws to a close, made him the first active NFL player to come out as gay. According to Fanatics,...
‘Pride is back at the White House,’ Biden says, signing Pulse nightclub bill –...
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday designated the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a national memorial, to honor the 49 people killed in a 2016...
Have You Heard Willie Nelson’s Famous Gay Cowboy Song? – Wide Open Country
The avant-garde composer Gene Tyranny once referred to it as "the famous gay cowboy song." And he's not wrong. "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other" is perhaps the most...
Bernadine L. Gay – Obituary – Mahoning Valley – Mahoning Matters
Jan. 28, 1952 — June 23, 2021 (age 69) CANFIELD — Bernadine L. Gay, 69, died Wednesday afternoon (June 23) at Hospice House. Prayers will begin Monday (June 28) at 12:30 p.m. at the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Homes Boardman-Canfield Chapel....
‘I Carry You With Me’ Blends Reality And Drama In A Wrenching Gay Love...
Christian Vázquez as Gerardo and Armando Espitia as Iván in I Carry You with Me. Alejandro Lopez Pineda/Sony Pictures...
UW Men’s Basketball staffer is “living his truth” as a gay man – WMTV...
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A member of the UW Men’s Basketball staff is living his truth. June is Pride Month so Marc VandeWettering wrote an article to describe his journey as...
LA Lost a Gay Landmark in Oil Can Harry’s—but Memories Live On – LA...
Oil Can Harry’s, known for its retro and country-western vibes, was the oldest gay club in L.A., operating in Studio City from 1968 until it became a casualty of the COVID-19...
Film Review: “Summer of 85” unfurls a gay love story with sinister overtones –...
Summer of 85: Félix Lefebvre (left) and Benjamin Voisin (right) — Photo: Courtesy of Music Box Films
Set on the rocky shores of a Normandy beach town, Francois Ozon’s Summer of 85...
GALLERY: Gay pride parade in Cape May – Press of Atlantic City
On June 24 2021, in Cape May, people showed their support for Pride month by marching from the Convention center to the Sunset Pavilion. (l-r) David Fallon, 17, and Kora Clauser,...
Inside the first Pride parade—a raucous protest for gay liberation – National Geographic
When John D’Emilio heard a group of LGBTQ activists would be marching in the streets of New York in June 1970, he told his boyfriend and several of his gay friends....
Gay Bars and Gay Rights – JSTOR Daily
Gay bars, one of the few public places of congregation for LGBTQ+ people before the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, were flash points for the criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct, according to...
US, Western Embassies Fly Gay Pride Flags in Moscow – The Moscow Times
The U.S., British and Canadian embassies in Russia on Friday hung rainbow flags on their buildings in Moscow in honor of LGBT Pride Month celebrated worldwide.
In a joint statement with...
A gay couple faced vulgar harassment. A neighbor helped find the suspect with a...
In fact, one Milton resident mobilized to crack the case. Less than a week after McLean shared the post, the couple was contacted by someone they didn’t know who filed a...
Harry Hay, John Cage, and the Birth of Gay Rights in Los Angeles –...
In a solitary gay-pride parade the other day, I trudged up the Mattachine Steps, a long, steep public staircase east of the Silver Lake Reservoir, in Los Angeles. The steps—one of...
Compromise to safeguard gay rights – New York Daily News
I know, it sounds like I’m dumping all the concessions on the trans community, throwing them overboard, as it were. But if the Equality Act passes, members of the transgender...
A Denver man from Jordan opens up about his struggles as a gay man...
DENVER — The thought of holding another man’s hand in public was once a far-fetched dream for Luai Qubain, a man raised in the Middle East; but those days are...
Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity – Flintside
This exhibition features selections from the Jack B. Pierson Print Collection that includes works on paper by artists from around the globe. Drawing on Pierson’s experience as a gay man, Political and Personal: Images...
‘I told my entire network that I am gay’ – Financial Times
The author is a partner at City law firm Addleshaw GoddardEarlier this month I wrote a post on LinkedIn that I’d been waiting to hit send on for possibly two months,...
NYT’s Mara Gay: Experts say rising crime is due to ‘trauma,’ ‘grief’ ‘upheaval’ our...
Media top headlines June 24 Rose McGowan speaking out in support of Britney Spears on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight,' Christie Smythe discussing her strange relationship with ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli, and...
FREE: A look into the beginning of gay rights in Minneapolis – Minnesota Daily
What started as a class turned into an LGBTQ+ rights movement.FREE members participating in one of their many pickets. Founder Koreen Phelps can be seen in a dark sleeveless turtleneck to...
Carl Nassib’s NFL jersey is top seller after he announces he’s gay – WBTV
(CBS News) - Sales of Carl Nassib’s jersey are jumping after the Las Vegas Raider this week became the first active player in the NFL to say that he’s gay.Nassib’s No. 94...
Luxembourg gay PM blasts ‘stigmatizing’ new Hungarian law – Reuters
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel arrives on the second day of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 2, 2020. Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERSBRUSSELS, June 24 (Reuters) - Luxembourg's...
‘I Carry You With Me’ review: Moving gay immigrant romance – Los Angeles Times
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined...
Meet Ruth Coker Burks, who cared for gay men dying of AIDS – TODAY
Ruth Coker Burks never intended to be an advocate, activist or even an angel. She just wanted to do the right thing.“Oh, I’m no angel,” Coker Burks, 62, told TODAY. “I’m...
First gay Miss America Deidre Downs and wife expecting baby girl – AL.com
Former Miss America Deidre Downs and her wife, Birmingham attorney Abbott Jones, are expecting a baby girl in September.A UAB obstetrician-gynecologist known professionally as Dr. Deidre Downs Gunn, the former Miss...
NJ high school’s gay valedictorian says speech was ‘censored’ – New Jersey 101.5 FM
VOORHEES —The valedictorian at Eastern Regional High School said he was censored by school officials who cut his microphone when he went off script and started talking about coming out as...
David Archuleta tells ‘Nightline’ he tried to pray the gay away – The Herald...
Singer David Archuleta said his feelings for other men left him feeling guilt and shame, and made him question both his faith and his desire to keep on living —...
Supreme Court still won’t resolve tensions between civil liberties and gay rights | Opinion...
“It’s déjà vu all over again.”For a second time, the Supreme Court was asked to resolve the tension between gay and lesbian rights and religious liberties and, for a second time,...