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Tourmaline to release historic biography about Marsha P. Johnson

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson will be the first full-length biography of the queer icon ever to be published.

A Shared Fight: Police Brutality in the LGBTQ+ And Black Communities

Resistance to police brutality is intertwined with the Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ movements. Together, we must end it.

Almost 400 People Released After Arrests at Istanbul Pride March

Hundreds showed up to the march on Sunday even though it had been banned. 

After Allegedly Exposing Himself and Getting Tasered, GOP Official Quits

David Narramore, a Republican party official in Kentucky, is accused of exposing himself in a men's restroom and then resisting arrest.

Op-ed: Why We Shut Down the Castro

As the #BlackLivesMatter movement forges ahead, white LGBT people don't have to sit on the sidelines.

Chinese Gay Men Confront Police

Around 50 gay men stood up to police forces at a public park in China, perhaps signalling a new chapter in the country's LGBT movement.

LGBTQ+ Orgs: We Must Do More to End Racism, Racial Violence

More than 70 groups signed on to an open letter in light of the death of George Floyd and other recent horrific incidents.

Chinese Lesbian Dating App Disappears

Rela, a popular app for queer women, shut down amid political shifts in Asia.

Why a Trans Group Interrupted Phoenix Pride

The disrupters in Arizona were inspired by Black Lives Matter's action at Toronto Pride.

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.

Sifting Through the Stonewall Morass

No single movie nor any one book can completely tell the story of the riots.

Salvadoran Trans Man Says He Was Brutalized by Police After Pride Parade

Aldo Alexander Pena leaked pictures to social media of his disfigured face after police, he says, broke his eye socket while arresting him on false charges.

British Stonewall Drama to Make NYC Debut

Set in New York's simmering Greenwich Village, A Hard Rain looks back at the dawn of the modern gay rights movement.

Michigan teen charged with trans woman's murder, to be tried as adult

Ashia Davis was found in a hotel room with a single gunshot wound to the head; her accused killer was only 17 at the time.

Black Women, Girls, and Trans Folks Get Locked Up and Shot Too

In her new book, Invisible No More, Andrea J. Ritchie dissects the forgotten stories of police violence against transgender women of color.  Read an exclusive excerpt below.

Man Who Pulled Gun at Historic Minnesota Gay Bar Pleads Guilty

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

Judge Blocks New Orleans Law Against Street Preaching

The judge suspended enforcement of a law that had been used to arrest several antigay preachers during Southern Decadence.