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Man Who Pulled Gun At Historic MN Gay Bar Gets Almost 5 Years Behind Bars
Crime

Man Who Pulled Gun At Historic Gay Bar Gets 5 Years Behind Bars

The man grew upset when he was carded.

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Crime

Man Who Pulled Gun at Historic Minnesota Gay Bar Pleads Guilty

Conell Walter Harris returned to play pool after he threatened to kill employees.

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Business

The Abbey Closes Due to COVID-19; Will Other Gay Bars Follow?

Owner David Cooley said he would be "inconsolable" if the gay bar caused the virus to spread.

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News

Another One Bites the Dust: Iconic Kentucky Gay Club Shuttering

Operating for more than 13 years, Soundbar will close its doors later this month.

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News

Famed NYC Lesbian Bar Seeks Community Help After Feds Deny Aid

Henrietta Hudson has been a West Village fixture since 1991.

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News

Man Pulls Gun at Historic Gay Bar, Threatens Employees and Patrons

Witnesses say the man "squared up" with one employee and threatened to kill another.

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Religion

Pro-Trump Minister: LGBTQ Lawyer's Death From COVID Was God's Judgment

Rick Wiles says the death of LGBT Bar Association of New York board member Richard E. Weber Jr. represents divine punishment.

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Women

Oxwood Inn Closes, Leaving Los Angeles Without a Single Lesbian Bar

The closing of this 45-year-old San Fernando Valley watering hole is another blow to women's spaces. 

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Voices

Provincetown, Are You OK?

P-town became a COVID breakthrough hotspot, but Mayor Alex Morse says the gay mecca is getting its groove back.

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Theater

Gov. Cuomo Announces Broadway Reopening Date

Broadway theaters will be allowed to reopen at 100 percent capacity in September, the governor says.

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Crime

Teen Booted from Stonewall Returns to Smash Historic Window

The teen was not charged with a hate crime, as the act was not considered one of anti-LGBT animus. 

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Theater

Patti LuPone Teases Broadway Reopening: 'It'll Be One Hell of a Show'

LuPone next stars in a female-centered revival of Company.

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Travel

Twenty Years After the Wall

Six days before his 2001 election as Berlin's mayor, Klaus Wowereit told voters, "I'm gay and that's a good thing." Eight years later and as popular as ever, the out politician takes Advocate on a tour of his Berlin.

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Sports

Women's sports bars are on a winning streak and 'slaying the trolls'

When Jenny Nguyen opened The Sports Bra in 2022, she started a movement: Bars that only show women’s sports. Now, fandom and pay are rapidly growing — and it’s time for the Olympics.

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Voices

The Life of a Wrong and Wayward 'War-Time' President

Pack those churches, make that cash, lives be damned!

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television

WATCH: Laverne Cox Rocks The View

Even Rosie O'Donnell, who Cox was sitting in for, wants to see the transgender actress added to the show's hosting team permanently.

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Politics

Ohio Gov. John Kasich Signs Order Protecting Trans State Workers

It comes in his last month in office.

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Crime

A night they can't remember, at one of the country's most popular LGBTQ+ bars

Many maintain that The Abbey in West Hollywood is the site of the most disorienting experience of their lives.

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Crime

Jessica Watkins, Trans Jan. 6 Insurrectionist, Apologizes in Court

Jessica Watkins, a militia leader, said that she became sucked into online conspiracies and believed the United Nations could invade the United States.

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Pride

Despite Pandemic, Palm Springs Celebrates Socially Distant Pride

Bars and nightclubs make due amid stringent COVID-19 restrictions.