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9/3/20

Organization Behind LA Pride Names Sharon-Franklin Brown, Black Trans Woman, As Board President

Here’s a nice piece of news: For the first time ever, the organization that produces LA Pride has named a Black…

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How Cops Turned Pride Into the Police’s Greatest PR Stunt

For the past 20 years, Pride has been a public relations opportunity for police. They’ve used the celebration as an…

Emma Madden

6/29/20 2:20PM

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6/29/20

NYC Cops Celebrated Pride By Pepper-Spraying Marchers at Queer Liberation Event

Happy Pride from the New York City Police Department, which celebrated, as it often does, with violence and pepper…

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Gregg Araki On Why Queerness Has Been a Blessing to His Art

In the past three decades, Gregg Araki has watched his work go from shocking to sweet. The director made his first…

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New History Book Illuminates Gay Liberation's Great Debt to the Civil Rights Movement

The revolution started with a handjob. Or something like that. On August 28, 1956, an astronomer named Frank Kameny…

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The Invisible Killing of Tony McDade

On May 27, Tony McDade, a trans man and Tallahassee resident, was killed by a police officer. No video exists of…

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Happy Pride From AT&T and the $1.8 Million It Gave to Anti-LGBTQ+ and Republican Candidates

Pride is a time to celebrate and honor the LGBTQIA+ people who have fought for equal rights before the law—sometimes…

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Lady Bunny Wants Corporations To Leave Pride Alone

Speaking to Page Six at an Alice + Olivia Pride party, Lady Bunny spoke up on the corporations that have strong-armed…

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The Trump Administration Has Banned U.S. Embassies From Flying Flags for Pride Month

In yet another needless attack on the LGBTQ community, the Trump administration has rejected all requests from U.S.…

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Thank God for Abortion at Pride

Viva Ruiz is many things: an artist, a creator, queer, Catholic, and proud to have had two abortions. Thank God for…

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On Pride's Radical Potential: The Question Isn't 'Who Should Be at Pride?' But 'What Are We Doing?'

To close out Pride Month, Jezebel presents On Pride: A series of conversations with LGBTQ artists and activists…

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On Pride and Nightlife: There Are No Safe Spaces 'Except for the Ones I Create'

To close out Pride Month, Jezebel presents On Pride: A series of conversations with LGBTQ artists and activists…

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Returning Pride to Its Stonewall Roots: 'Our Battle With the Police Is Not Over'

To close out Pride Month, Jezebel presents On Pride: A series of conversations with LGBTQ artists and activists…

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They're Here, They're Queer, They're Buying Lemonade from Suri Cruise

Far be it from me to criticize an enterprising young woman who takes to the New York City streets on an 85-degree…

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Amandla Stenberg: 'I Was So Overcome With This Profound Sense of Relief When I Realized That I’m Gay'

Two years ago, Amandla Stenberg (Rue in The Hunger Games, star of Everything, Everything) came out as bisexual…

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Here's Who's Allowed at Pride

Pride month has begun, and, with it, the annual Sisyphean death rattle of “Who’s allowed at Pride??” discourse. Are…

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A Teen Is Organizing a Terrifying Pride Festival in Mike Pence's Hometown

Mike Pence, a pure man who survives on whole milk and phobia, who has long voted against LGBTQ rights and nary cast…

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Jay-Z's New Album Features 'Becky' Admission, His Mom Coming Out

Late Thursday night Jay-Z, who brought back the hyphen but not the umlaut, dropped 4:44, an album that on the first…

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

6/30/17 11:00AM

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6/20/17

Mariah Carey's Pride Merch Is Gay AF

Nothing says “gay” as melismatically, melodramatically, or straight-up sweetly as the very notion of Mariah Carey,…

Rich Juzwiak

6/20/17 12:05PM

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