Stories on LGBTQ and African American icons.
By Jeffrey Masters, Guest Contributor GLAAD.org | August 18, 2021 Photo Credit: Roger Erickson “When you can be your authentic self, you know you’ve arrived.” At 12, after only a single tennis lesson, Billie Jean King knew […]
Photo Credit: Charles Beal president Gilbert Baker Foundation Finding the Original Rainbow Flag June 3, 2021 MEDIA CONTACTDavid PerryDavid Perry & Associates, Inc.(415) 676-7007news@davidperry.com WHO / SPEAKERS: GLBT Historical Society Board Member Tina Valentin Aguirre […]
Photo Credit © Getty Images b. November 28, 1980 “My mission is to prove that everyone has the right to pursue their dreams.” Angelica Ross is a television actress and the founder and CEO of […]
Photo Credit © Wikipedia Commons b. September 1946 d. July 22, 2011 Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani-American poet whose unique LGBT-themed collections, written in Urdu, were published internationally. He helped establish Sangat Chicago, an […]
Photo Credit © Getty Images b. February 3, 1938 d. June 23, 2013 “I kill a man and most people forgive me … I love a man … this makes me an evil person.” Emile […]
October 23: Tarell Alvin McCraney, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Photo © Getty Images “It’s really important for us, in terms of the storytellers, to be able to talk about these intimate details that built our lives.” b. […]
October 8 Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Winning Journalist Photo © MICHAEL YOUND PHOTOGRAPHY and Jonathan Capehart “One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.” b. July […]
October 1: Gilbert Baker Photo (c) Getty Images “I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag.” b. June 2, 1951d. March 31, 2017 Gilbert Baker was an American artist and […]
October 27: Kyrsten Sinema, Congresswoman Photo (c) Kyrsten Sinema“How often can you say a kid who was homeless is going to Congress?” Kyrsten Sinema is the first openly bisexual person elected to the U.S. Congress. […]
October 21: Alain Locke, Father of The Harlem Renaissance Photo © Van Vechten Trust“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”Sept. 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954 Alain Locke was […]
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