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1993 Miss America Leanza Cornett Dies At Age 49, Was First To Adopt HIV/AIDS...
Deadline Hollywood reports: Leanza Cornett, the American TV personality and former Miss America winner, has died at the age of 49 after suffering a head injury earlier this month. The Miss America...
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Orlando To Preserve Iconic Parliament House Sign
The Orlando Sentinel reports: Although the Parliament House will be demolished, its distinctive multicolored sign will be preserved as a piece of Orlando history. “The City of Orlando is working on...
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Greece Appoints Its First Openly Gay Cabinet Minister
The Independent reports: Greece has appointed its first openly gay minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Nicholas Yatromanolakis made history after he was named the new deputy minister of culture on...
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UPDATE: Buttigieg Confirmed With 13 GOP No Votes
ABC News reports: The Senate is poised to approve Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary, the first openly gay person ever confirmed to a Cabinet post, tasked with advancing President Joe...
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LIVE VIDEO: Joe Biden Swears In Pete Buttigieg
CBS News reports: President Biden on Wednesday morning is set to swear in Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary, making the former South Bend, Ind., mayor the nation’s first openly LGBTQ Cabinet...
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HISTORY: Senate Confirms Rachel Levine In 52-48 Vote
CNN reports: The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Rachel Levine as assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services, the first out transgender federal official to be...
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Bank Of England Unveils Alan Turing £50 Note [VIDEO]
The Verge reports: The Bank of England has revealed the design for the UK’s new £50 note featuring computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing. Turing was selected to appear on the note in July 2019...
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In First, Biden Marks Transgender Day Of Visibility
From a just-issued White House proclamation: Today, we honor and celebrate the achievements and resiliency of transgender individuals and communities. Transgender Day of Visibility recognizes the...
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US Senate Designates Pulse As A National Memorial
The Orlando Sentinel reports: Days before the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, U.S. Senators passed a bill designating the site of the former nightclub as a national memorial. The...
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DNC Honors Pulse Victims With Call For Gun Reform
Just in via press release: 5 years ago, 49 LGBTQ people, largely Black and Latinx, were killed in the deadliest attack on LGBTQ people in American history. The shooting is also the second-deadliest...
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Biden Marks Pulse Anniversary: We Must Acknowledge Gun Violence’s Particular...
Via press release from the White House: Five years ago today in Orlando in the middle of Pride Month, our nation suffered the deadliest attack affecting the LGBTQ+ community in American history, and at...
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Dem Resolution Seeks US Apology For “Hundreds Of Thousands” Of LGBT Federal...
NBC News reports: LGBTQ civil servants and service members were systematically fired or forced to resign due to their sexual orientation or gender identity over the past seven decades, and a proposed...
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Stonewall Inn To Hold “Public Pour Out” Of Anheuser Busch Beers Over...
Just in via press release: The Stonewall Inn, widely regarded as the birthplace of the LGBTQ rights movement, will ban Anheuser-Busch products from the bar during NYC Pride weekend, June 25-27, in...
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Biden Signs Bill Designating Pulse National Memorial
USA Today reports: President Joe Biden has signed a law designating the Pulse nightclub in Orlando as a national memorial. Survivors of the 2016 shooting and the victims’ family members attended the...
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LGBTQ History: “The Foot Wore A Spiked Heel”
It was 52 years ago this weekend that the queer community of New York City finally said “Enough!” As I’ve done for the last few years on this day, I’m reposting the story that the New York Daily News...
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“American LGBTQ+ Museum” Planned For Manhattan
Gothamist reports: The American LGBTQ+ Museum will have a permanent home in the expansion of the New-York Historical Society’s headquarters on Central Park West, with a $35 million infusion in capital...
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First Gay US Ambassador James Hormel Dies At 88
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: James Hormel, a San Franciscan who became the nation’s first gay ambassador and later a prolific philanthropist, died Friday. Hormel, who was 88, was appointed as...
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JMG Short Story: Ricky Loved Madonna
Gentle readers, today is Madonna’s 63rd birthday. Below is a short story that first appeared on JMG on this day in 2006, a date which, as you’ll see, plays a role in the story. Ricky Loved Madonna...
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Biden Marks The 10th Anniversary Of DADT Repeal
Via press release from the White House: Ten years ago today, a great injustice was remedied and a tremendous weight was finally lifted off the shoulders of tens of thousands of dedicated American...
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US Mint: 5 Pioneering Women To Appear On Quarters
CNN reports: The US Mint has announced the full list of five pioneering American women who will appear on the first run of the “American Women Quarters Program.” Images of the women, who represent a...
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