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Bringing you today's LGBTQ history in a free mobile app. Created by @Sarah_Prager. Support our work at https://teapawt.net/t.co/KPVK9P1nWr #quistory

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The first #Pride was a riot. ✊🏾#HappyPride – at Wallingford, CT
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This is Harvey Milk's legacy on fighting for gay rights 🏳️‍🌈

Harvey Milk: A life of activism

We look back at how he became a legend. 🏳️‍🌈

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“As long as there have been black people, there have been black LGBTQ and same-gender-loving people,” David J. Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, told NBC News. nbcnews.trib.al/nj4YCpk
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Harvey Milk would’ve been 90 years old today. Now his legacy lives on through @HMilkFoundation 🏳️‍🌈

Harvey Milk: A life of activism

We look back at how he became a legend. 🏳️‍🌈

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Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official in the United States 🌈

Harvey Milk: A life of activism

We look back at how he became a legend. 🏳️‍🌈

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Trans right are human rights #TransDayOfVisibility
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Happy #TransDayOfVisibility, lovelies!! Live your life authentically and proudly, and channel the badass energy of some of these amazing folks we've featured on the show (or plan to in the near future!). Our history is long, widespread, and proud.
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Image from History is Gay Podcast (@HistoryisGayPod)
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Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin has finally been posthumously pardoned after being criminalised for gay sex in 1953 pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/05/ba…
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin has finally been posthumously pardoned after being criminalised...

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin has finally been posthumously pardoned after being criminalised...

Gay Black civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who was criminalised for having consensual gay sex in 1953, has been posthumously pardoned.

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A great way to support local bookstores is by pre-ordering Rainbow Revolutionaries on the brand-new @Bookshop_Org: bookshop.org/books/rainbow-r… 😊
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This is the first known recording of trans icons Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/30/ma…
This is the first known recording of trans icons Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson

This is the first known recording of trans icons Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson

The first-ever known recording of trans icons Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson has been uncovered in the basement of New York's Lesbian Herstory Archives. 

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It’s official: Northern Ireland has finally signed same-sex marriage into law pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/20/no…
It’s official: Northern Ireland has finally signed same-sex marriage into law

It’s official: Northern Ireland has finally signed same-sex marriage into law

Northern Ireland's secretary of state Julian Smith has officially signed a regulation to introduce same-sex marriage by Valentine's Day 2020.

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Paris is Burning is being rereleased with a full hour of unseen footage pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/18/pa…
Paris is Burning is being rereleased with a full hour of unseen footage

Paris is Burning is being rereleased with a full hour of unseen footage

Paris is Burning – the seminal documentary which introduced shade to the cultural lexicon – will be rereleased with an hour of previously unseen material.

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Check out these positive LGBT+ stories from the past week! 🏳️‍🌈 #TransWeek

Positive LGBT+ stories this week

It's a tear-jerker.

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How much do you know about transgender history? 🤔 Play the quiz: bit.ly/34JvFvn

Transgender history quiz

How many did you score?

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In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, check out this list of #LGBTQ and Two-Spirit Native Americans making an impact in their local communities and beyond them.us/story/lgbtq-two-spir… via @them & @jpbrammer
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Check out this awesome cover! RAINBOW REVOLUTIONARIES by Sarah Prager and Sarah Papworth (coming May 2020) bookriot.com/2019/10/04/cove…
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My LGBTQ+ history books 😍🥰😘
Image from Sarah Prager 🏳️‍🌈 (@Sarah_Prager)
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It’s 30 years since Denmark made history and became the first country to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/01/de…
It’s 30 years since Denmark made history and became the first country to introduce civil partners...

It’s 30 years since Denmark made history and became the first country to introduce civil partners...

History was made 30 years ago on October 1, 1989, when Denmark became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to tie the knot.

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It’s 30 years since Denmark made history and became the first country to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/01/de…
It’s 30 years since Denmark made history and became the first country to introduce civil partners...

It’s 30 years since Denmark made history and became the first country to introduce civil partners...

History was made 30 years ago on October 1, 1989, when Denmark became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to tie the knot.

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