In October 1977 the LGBT community throughout California was embattled. Conservative Orange County state Senator John Briggs was circulating a statewide ballot initiative that would ban homosexuals ...

The University of Michigan-Dearborn's Gender and Sexuality Alliance will be hosting a slew of events throughout October celebrating both LGBT History Month and National Coming Out Day, which happens ...

San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood has a colorful history and was once the center of gay life in San Francisco. Grittier than the Castro, which in the late 1970s overtook "The TL," as it's ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- In October, we celebrated National Coming Out Day. Every person has their own journey in understanding what it means to support LGBTQ people, whether you're part of the ...

The Stonewall Riots in 1969 are considered by many to be the start of the gay rights movement, but there are other protests and events in support of the LGBTQ+ community that pre-date Stonewall. For ...

Understanding where we come from and where we've been is an important part of telling the human story. For LGBTQ+ people, those stories are often lost to time because of stigma, fear and shame. "Our ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The William Way LGBT Community Center opened as the 'Gay Community Center of Philadelphia' in 1974. "It's a long history of organizing pride parades and pride festivals," says ...

OREO and PFLAG have released a limited edition rainbow cookie in celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month. The cookies will not be sold in stores and will instead be given to fans to "reward acts of ...

Walking along a path in Boston Common across from the Massachusetts State House, there are no visible remnants of Boston’s LGBT history. However, this was the very path where about 155 years ago, ...