#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/17/2008

Bo Hoshaw of San Francisco, and Richard Groves of Manchester, England, hug as they celebrate California’s supreme court decision on Castro Street in San Francisco, Thursday, May, 15th 2008. A huge crowd gathered in the Castro district to celebrate, after the California Supreme Court overturned a voter approved ban on gay marriage Thursday, May 15th 2008, in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nations biggest state to tie the knot.

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#2 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 08/26/2011 #4

Has our society gone so far over the edge that we are actually debating the sexual status of hand puppets? #LGBTQ MjL

#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/10/2012 #2

Obummer announced May 9th that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Dimocrat base and even his own vice president.

Switching horses? Obummer (Barack Hussein Obama II)  #Obummer LGBTQ  #LGBTQ MjL

#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/25/2012 #4

Marseille, France • Two women kiss at a demonstration against same-sex marriage and adoption by gay and lesbian couples.

The girls kissing didn’t grab my attention so much as the horrified expressions of the onlookers. It is hard to believe we live in the 21st century. LGBTQ #LGBTQ MjL

#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/15/2013 #4

Tens of thousands of people demonstrators take part in a protest against same-sex marriage in Paris. The protest, organized by the far right National Front party, denounced government plans to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption, which have angered many Catholics and Muslims, France’s two main faiths, as well as the right-wing opposition. The French parliament is to debate the bill - one of the key electoral pledges of Socialist President Francois Hollande - at the end of this month.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/26/2013 #4

Tens of thousands of people protesters take part in a demonstration against France’s same-sex marriage bill in Paris. The controversial bill to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption has been comfortably adopted by the lower chamber of parliament and will go to the Senate for examination and approval in April.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/27/2013 #4

People react outside the Supreme Court in Washington after the justices issued their rulings on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. The court struck down DOMA as unconstitutional and cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California after it declined to rule on Prop 8.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/28/2013 #1

Rainbow colored lights illuminate City Hall in San Francisco the evening after the Supreme court ruled on California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The court handed significant victories to gay rights advocates in both cases.

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 04/29/2015 #2

Gay marriage supporters hold a gay rights flag in front of the Supreme Court before a hearing about gay marriage in Washington, Tuesday. The nine justices will be hearing arguments concerning gay marriage restrictions imposed in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, four of the thirteen states that still outlaw such marriages.

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#10 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/27/2015 #1

White House reaction to Supreme Court marriage decision.

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/27/2015 #2

Rainbow Empire State Building.

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#12 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/27/2015 #3

Rainbow Niagra Falls.

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#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/30/2015 #4

British actor Sir Ian McKellen, one of the grand marshals for the Heritage of Pride March in New York, greets fans before the start of the parade.

Sir Ian Murray McKellen #IanMcKellen #LGBTQ MjL

#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/05/2015 #3

Same-sex marriage supporters chant during a protest in front of the federal courthouse on Sept. 3rd, 2015 in Ashland, KY.

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#15 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/28/2016 #3

Rioting police, with a rainbow flag in the background, chase LGBT rights activists as they try to gather for a pride parade, which was banned by the governorship, in Istanbul, Turkey.

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#16 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/03/2016 #5

Members of the National Park Service adjust a banner in the front of The Stonewall Inn ahead of a ceremony officially designating it and Christopher Park as part of the Stonewall National Monument in New York, June 27th, 2016.

LGBTQ  #LGBTQ 1969 Stonewall Police Riot  #PoliceRiot1969Stonewall MjL

#17 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/28/2017 #2

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clintoon appointee to the DC circuit, had previously ordered back in October that homophobe Agolf Twitler’s order banning transgender people from serving in the military be suspended and that the retention and accession policies revert to the status quo.

Agolf Twitler (Donald John Trump)  #Twitler LGBTQ  #LGBTQ MjL

#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/26/2018 #2

Pride marks the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York, widely seen as the birth of the equality movement for LGBT people. San Francisco City Hall is lit up in rainbow colors following the city’s Pride parade on June 24th.

LGBTQ  #LGBTQ 1969 Stonewall Police Riot  #PoliceRiot1969Stonewall MjL

#19 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 10/28/2018 #8

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#20 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/26/2019 #3

The Helmsley Building is lit in rainbow color ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riot, in New York.

LGBTQ  #LGBTQ 1969 Stonewall Police Riot  #PoliceRiot1969Stonewall MjL

#21 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 12/17/2019 #8

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#22 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/07/2021 #13

In 1998, Matthew Wayne Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten and left tied to a wooden fencepost outside of Laramie, WY; he died five days later. (Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for Shepard’s murder.) #LGBTQ #MatthewShepard What Happened To His Killers?

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#23 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/23/2021 #1

Producer Cheryl Rich joins protesters outside the Netflix building in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 20th, 2021. Critics and supporters of Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special and its anti-transgender comments gathered outside the company’s offices Wednesday.

Netflix  #Netflix David Khari Webber “Dave” Chappelle  #DaveChappelle LGBTQ  #LGBTQ MjL

#24 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/06/2021 #5

In 2012, Tammy Suzanne (Green) Baldwin became the first openly gay politician elected to the U.S. Senate. #TammyBaldwin #LGBTQ

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#25 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/22/2021 #2

People take part in the Transgender Day of Remembrance in Washington Square Park, NY.

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#26 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/27/2021 #14

In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Richard Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Bernard Milk, a gay rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Daniel James “Dan” White. (White served five years for manslaughter; he took his own life in October 1985.) #GeorgeMoscone #HarveyMilk #DanWhite #LGBTQ

#GeorgeMoscone #HarveyMilk #DanWhite #LGBTQ MjL

#27 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/30/2021 #14

In 2010, Pentagon leaders called for scrapping the 17-year-old “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on openly gay military service after releasing a survey about the prospect of openly gay troops. (The policy was rescinded in 2011.) #LGBTQ

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#28 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/18/2021 #14

In 2010, the U.S. Senate approved repeal of the military’s 17 year “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on openly gay troops in a 65-31 vote. (Obummer later signed it into law.) #LGBTQ

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#29 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/26/2022 #15

In 2014, Repuglican Arizona Gov. Janice Kay (Drinkwine) Brewer vetoed a bill pushed by social conservatives that would have allowed people with sincerely held religious beliefs to refuse to serve gays. #JanBrewer #LGBTQ

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#30 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/08/2022 #18

In 2016, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen canceled a scheduled concert in Greensboro, NC, citing the state’s new law blocking anti-discrimination rules covering the LGBT community. #BruceSpringsteen #LGBT

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#31 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/24/2022 #8

In 2011, New York State legalized same-sex marriage. #LGBTQ

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#32 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/24/2022 #12

In 2016, Obummer created the first national monument to gay rights, designating the site of the 1969 Stonewall police riots in Manhattan. #LGBTQ #PoliceRiot1969Stonewall

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#33 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/28/2022 #14

In 2013, the four plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California’s same sex marriage ban tied the knot, just hours after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses in the state for the first time in 4.5 years. #LGBTQ

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#34 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/28/2022 #21

In 2019, thousands converged on New York’s Stonewall Inn for the fiftieth anniversary of a clash between patrons and police; the police riot rebellion served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement. #PoliceRiot1969Stonewall #LGBTQ “As was common for American gay bars at the time, the Stonewall Inn was owned by the Mafia.”

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#35 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/30/2022 #20

In 2016, saying it was the right thing to do, Defense Secretary Ashton Baldwin “Ash” Carter announced that transgender people would be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. #LGBTQ

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#36 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/19/2022 #9

In 1993, Bill Clintoon (William Jefferson (Blythe III) Clinton) announced a policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the military under a compromise dubbed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue”. #BillClintoon #LGBTQ

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#37 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/23/2022 #3

People visit a makeshift memorial near the Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs. On November 19th, a 22-year-old gunman entered the LGBTQ nightclub and opened fire, killing five people before being tackled and disarmed by a club patron.

2022 Colorado Springs Nightclub Shooting #Shooting2022ColoradoSprings #LGBTQ MjL

#38 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 11/24/2022 #10

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#39 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/26/2022 #1

Artist Paes164 paints a mural at his art gallery and lounge after a mass shooting at LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO.

2022 Colorado Springs Nightclub Shooting #Shooting2022ColoradoSprings #LGBTQ MjL

#40 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/28/2022 #3

Colorado Springs • A person lights a candle left at a memorial in front of the LGBTQ+ nightclub Club Q, after a mass shooting.

2022 Colorado Springs Nightclub Shooting #Shooting2022ColoradoSprings #LGBTQ MjL

#41 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 12/12/2022 #12

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#42 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 05/25/2023 #3

It should be a crime to harass store employees this way. #LGBTQ MjL

#43 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/31/2023 #1

The Canadian government on Tuesday issued an advisory warning LGBTQ travelers of the dangers of visiting the U.S. “Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local laws,” Global Affairs Canada, the governmental department that manages the country’s diplomatic relations, wrote in the advisory.

Not to denigrate the situation, but I think somebody needs to organize a better description than “2SLGBTQI+”. LGBTQ #LGBTQ MjL

#44 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/01/2023 #2

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has signed an executive order that narrowly defines male and female, making it the latest state to enact the so-called Women’s Bill of Rights as Repuglicans nationwide seek to restrict the rights of transgender citizens.

Why are these people so intolerant? LGBTQ #LGBTQ MjL

#45 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 12/02/2023 #14

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#46 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 12/19/2023 #5

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#47 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2024 #1

Florida has settled a lawsuit over what critics dubbed the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, allowing students and teachers to discuss sexual orientation and gender identity, as long as it is not part of classroom instruction.

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#48 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/01/2024 #1

Sarasota’s Project Pride SRQ was again part of history as the country’s largest progressive pride flag (700 feet long) was marched to the middle of John Ringling Causeway Bridge. This powerful event was response to recent restrictions from Governor Ron DeSantis that prevented the bridge from being lit in rainbow colors for Pride Month, as well as in distinctive colors for Juneteenth, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and other important causes.

LGBTQ #LGBTQ MjL

#49 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/27/2024 #2

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Tens of thousands gather for the 2024 Rio LGBTQ+ Pride parade on Copacabana beach, celebrating the theme “Joining Together to Strengthen”.

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#50 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/02/2025 #1

All current transgender service members will be separated from the U.S. military, according to a Pentagon memo made public in a lawsuit challenging a Twitler executive order banning transgender Americans from the armed forces. The memo states that American soldiers diagnosed with, have a history of or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria “will be processed for separation from military service”.

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#51 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/19/2025 #3

A federal judge has blocked the Twitler administration’s ban on transgender service members, ruling the policy is discriminatory, unconstitutional and uninformed. In a strongly worded opinion on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of Washington, DC, issued a preliminary injunction against Twitler’s executive order directing the Department of Defense to bar enlistment of transgender Americans into the armed services and to discharge those already serving in the military. “The Military Ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext. Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit and its conclusions bear no relation to fact”, Reyes, a Korn Pop appointee, wrote in the order. “Thus, even if the Court analyzed the Military Ban under rational basis review, it would fail.”

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#52 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/07/2025 #3

The Twitler administration does not have to await the outcome of a federal appellate court challenge to enforce its ban on transgender military members, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. “The preliminary injunction —— is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought,” the one-page ruling says.

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#53 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 06/04/2025 #6

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#54 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/28/2025 #1

The Department of Health and Human Services has opened a civil rights investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education over a transgender teenager competing on a girls’ softball team. “The investigation will examine whether Minnesota engaged in discrimination on the basis of sex by allowing male athletes to compete on sports teams reserved for females,” the statement said. The team earlier this month won the 2025 State Tournament. Presuming this person single handedly beat all those other teams?

LGBTQ #LGBTQ #Gender MjL

#55 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/30/2025 #3

Hungarians take part in Budapest Pride. Early in 2025, Hungary passed a law restricting the freedom of assembly for LGBTQ+ people by connecting it to a previous law from 2021 prohibiting the public portrayal to children of ‘divergence from self-identity corresponding to sex at birth, sex change or homosexuality’. Consequently, events such as Pride marches are illegal in the country. The LGBTQ+ community is defying the ban and holding its Pride event on the streets of Budapest.

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#56 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/19/2026 #3

Pitlochry, Scotland • Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming and Graham Norton support the inaugural LGBTQ+ Out in the Hills festival at Pitlochry Festival theatre.

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#57 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/04/2026 #1

Hundreds of thousands of spectators attend the 30th edition of the Pride Canal Parade, the highlight of WorldPride Amsterdam 2026.

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