In October 1977 the LGBT community throughout California was embattled. Conservative Orange County state Senator John Briggs was circulating a statewide ballot initiative that would ban homosexuals ...

ANN ARBOR – Over two years and 3,500 volunteer hours later, the team known as The Peninsula Group presented their research and findings to 85 leaders from 31 LGBT and Ally organizations who ...

October is LGBT History Month, the creation of history teacher Rodney Wilson. He began working on the idea while completing graduate studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1994. Rodney ...

In celebration of LGBT History Month, author and former elementary school teacher Jerome Pohlen has written, "Gay & Lesbian History For Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights with 21 ...

NEW JERSEY (WPVI) -- New Jersey has become the second state in the nation after California to pass a law requiring schools to teach LGBT history in their classrooms. WABC-TV reports, under the new ...

San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood has a colorful history and was once the center of gay life in San Francisco. Grittier than the Castro, which in the late 1970s overtook "The TL," as it's ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village bar where resistance to a police raid sparked the modern gay rights movement, was made a city landmark Tuesday, the first time a site has been ...

Jenna Smith, a senior at Duke University, was in high school when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. During that time, she set out to learn more about queer history, so she created The LGBT History Project.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – In second grade, California students will learn about families with two moms or two dads. Two years later, while studying how immigrants have shaped the Golden State, they will ...

El Paso, Texas (KVIA-TV)—Doña Ana Community College is doing its part to celebrate LGBT History Month this October. The college will highlight several important dates this month. LGBT History Month ...

I hope this LGBT History Month has been a positive one. I hope you’ve had the chance and the time to talk to your students, colleagues, and others about the importance of celebrating difference and ...