The LGBTQ meaning has evolved over time. LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, but what does the Q, I and A stand for? Here's a history of all the terms used in the LGBTQ community.
and LGBTQ heroHarvey Milk. Three years later, Milk challenged Baker to design a gay community symbol, resulting in the first rainbow LGBTQ flag. Each of the eight colors had a meaning: Pink (Sex), Red (Life), Orange (Healing), Yellow (Sunlight), Green (Nature), Turquoise (Magic/Art),...
Emily Lloyd-Jones, “A Drop of Stolen Ink,” a retelling of “The Purloined Letter” “A Drop of Stolen Ink” came about the way so many of my stories do: with a weird sequence of events. I was at work, thinking about Poe because the always-lovelyDahliahad mentioned how awesome it ...
June is Pride Month in the United States and around the world. Pride, formerly known as Gay Pride, is a recognition of LGBTQ identity, affirmation of equal rights, and celebration of visibility, dignity, and diversity in the LGBTQ community. DuringPride Month, communities hold marches and other...
Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather, Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice:Find one thing you’re really good at and become...
Bush, the song took on a bigger meaning after Prop 8 — an anti-gay marriage state constitutional amendment — was passed in California. The ban was lifted in 2013. 61 Sara Bareilles, “Brave” (2013) The singer-songwriter revealed she wrote this catchy ode to courage as a love letter ...
Held in the second part of each year, the GAZE film festival is a fantastic way of seeing the best in queer cinema. It holds screenings of both big blockbuster films to smaller art-house cinema. We loved the days where they showed short films that focused on specific groups within the ...
Seventeen-year-old Amalia Yaabez and Ezra Holtz couldn’t be more different. They’ve known (and avoided) each other their whole lives; she unable to stand his buttoned-up, arrogant, perfect disposition, and he unwilling to deal with her slacker, rule-breaking way of moving through the wor...
Luckily, Quique’s prospects are each intriguing in their own ways. There’s stoner-jock Tyler Montana, who might be just as interested in Fabiola as he is in Quique; straitlaced senior class president, Ziggy Jackson; and Manny Zuniga, who keeps looking at Quique like he’s carne asada fr...
a member of the wealthiest and most powerful family in the country, and breakinghiscurse suddenly becomes her official assignment. Every generation, a pair of Pelumbra twins are doomed, with one twin draining the other of their life and magic. Each day, Kieran grows weaker while his sister ...