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The National Park Service will open a visitor center dedicated to LGBTQ+ history in New York City in the building adjacent to the Stonewall Inn, the iconic gay Manhattan landmark.Earlier this week, officials announced plans to reconnect the Stonewall Inn with its neighboring building in Greenwich Village, where the 1969 riot sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center will be home to rangers working to preserve Stonewall Inn, which was designated a national monument by President Obama in 2016. LGBTQ+ rights group Pride Live spearheaded the planning for the center.In addition to in-person and virtual tours, visitors will also be able to explore LGBTQ+ history and culture through lectures, exhibitions, and visual arts displays.Several leaders hail the move as a historic step forward for the LGBTQ+ community, especially in light of right-wing attacks."The opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center is a remarkable moment in the history of Stonewall," Ann Marie Gothard, president of the Pride Live board of directors, said in the announcement.

this notoriously ugly fish.The show comes out next week, but you can watch the Kimmel version of it above now. The fake Obama commercial begins 4 minutes and 47 seconds in.

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federal officials recently visited sites across the Mississippi Delta associated with Emmett Till’s life and death to gather local input on the creation of a national park dedicated to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. He should not be forgotten.The initial federal hate-crimes legislation was signed into law by Lyndon Johnson as far back as 1968; yet there was little execution of the law since it had many loopholes, and many states and municipalities were unwilling to bring hate-crimes charges, some because the charges can be difficult to prove, and for others a glaring lack of interest in pursuing them.In 2009, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

confirmation wouldn’t come until late December. Gifford had been waiting for 10 months.

Harold and Kumar and House star is promoting his new memoir, You Cannot Be Serious, in which he talks about being with his partner, Josh, for the past 11 years. The men are engaged.Yesterday, as part of the book’s promotion, he took part in an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit.

Harold & Kumar films as well as Designated Survivor, Clarice, Deadbeat, and House, made the announcement while promoting his new memoir You Can’t Be Serious.The 44-year-old, who also served as an advisor to President Obama, told People that he discovered his sexuality later in life, adding, “There’s no timeline on this stuff. People figure their shit out at different times in their lives, so I’m glad I did when I did.”Penn said he has “always been very public with everybody I’ve personally interacted with,” but while he was “really excited” to share his relationship with Josh in his book, “Josh, my partner, my parents, and my brother, four people who I’m closest to in the family, are fairly quiet.

declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program unlawful. But President Biden’s administration is moving swiftly to respond and protect undocumented young people. He must, for so much more is at stake for LGBTQ+ Asian Dreamers.  President Obama created DACA in 2012, which has helped thousands of undocumented young people to work, study, and improve their lives in this country, without the fear of deportation.

Reuters.Before the pandemic, Leite, 36, had been a supporter of Bolsonaro. However, Leite has heavily criticized Bolsonaro’s response to COVID-19.“I have never spoken about a subject related to my private life," Leite said Thursday in an interview with Brazilian journalist Pedro Bial on TV Globo.“But during this moment of low integrity in Brazil, I have nothing to hide, I am gay.

Sitting down with journalist Pedro Bial, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul opened up about his sexuality stating he has “nothing to hide.”

reversed by President Joe Biden soon after taking office earlier this year.Under the Trump ban, active-duty transgender people could not receive a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and could not pursue gender confirmation surgery, although a small minority of transgender service members who had previously undergone surgery were “grandfathered” in and allowed to continue serving.

Mayra Hidalgo Salazar comes to the Deputy Executive Director role at the National LGBTQ Task Force with over 13 years of experience working for social justice. Originally from Naranjo, Alajuela, Costa Rica, Mayra Hidalgo Salazar’s journey as a queer and formerly undocumented woman laid the groundwork for her commitment to organizing spear headed by queer, immigrant youth of color.

ABOVE: It really should've been Adam and Steve (Henson).

U.S. military.I am not jumping for joy.Don't get me wrong, this is great news—but it was already done in 2016 by President Obama and fully supported by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.

Dana Rudolph, lesbian activist and founder of GLAAD Media Award-winning blog, Mombian, published an open letter addressed to newly elected US president, Joe Biden, urging him fight for LGBTQ+ equality for the good of LGBTQ+ families. The letter, published in Between the Lines, reads: “My son was just a few months too young to vote in the last election, but watched it with great concern, for its results would directly impact him and his family.

Well, la-de-dah! Newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.

Newly elected US president, Joe Biden, has vowed to restore bathroom protections for the country’s trans community, which were enforced under Obama’s presidency but later scrapped by Donald Trump. According to Fox News, Biden plans to reinstate Obama-era regulations which protect trans students in public schools, and allow trans teens to use public bathrooms, locker rooms and other school facilities which align with their gender identity.The Trump administration reversed Obama’s regulations, arguing they clashed with laws regarding sex discrimination, thus leaving trans students unprotected as state’s proceeded to make their own laws regarding trans access to single-sex spaces.

Richard Blanco in “How to Love a Country,” a book of his poems that he published in 2019, recalls a comment he made to his mother shortly before he read a poem at President Obama’s second inauguration six years earlier.

On Tuesday January 12, during Donald Trump’s last days in office, the US Department of Health and Human Services finalised regulations which would allow government funded social-service providers to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. According to NBC News, the 77-page ruling retracts anti-discrimination policies made during Obama’s presidency which legally required social-service agencies to refrain from discrimination on the basis of sex, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially adopted new regulations, allowing recipients of government HHS grants to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people on the grounds of ‘religious freedom’.

Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, the choice of President-elect Joe Biden for defense secretary, spoke Tuesday with the head of the nation’s leading LGBTQ group in recognition of the 10th anniversary of repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Washington Blade has learned exclusively.

With less than two months remaining in the Trump administration, the Department of Labor went through with making a rule final on Monday that would grant religious institutions a broader exemption under former President Obama’s executive order barring anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination among federal contractors.

With fewer than two months remaining in the Trump administration, the Department of Labor went through with making a rule final on Monday that would grant religious institutions a broader exemption under former President Obama’s executive order barring anti-LGBTQ workplace among federal contractors.

ABOVE: Out gay creator and actor Dan Levy made People's Sexiest Men Alive list.

Politico reports. Alito is a strong opponent of LGBTQ+ rights and abortion rights, and he and Justice Clarence Thomas recently said they’d like to see the court’s 2015 ruling for marriage equality overturned.She is expected to be a boon to the Biden team in legislative and regulatory matters as well.

Victory Institute To Provide Transition Team With List of Qualified LGBTQ Leaders; No out LGBTQ person has been confirmed by the Senate for a Cabinet positionWashington, DC – Recently, LGBTQ Victory Institute called on President-elect Joe Biden to appoint at least one out LGBTQ person to a Senate-confirmed Cabinet position and said it will provide the transition team with a list of qualified LGBTQ leaders ready to serve. Never in American history has an out LGBTQ person been confirmed by the U.S.

The Way I See It is a wonderful new documentary about former chief official White House photographer Pete Souza's time with Obama. At least that’s the way it’s briefly described.

EXTRATV: RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a truly trailblazing, honorable American.

"It went into hibernation during the Obama years," said Michael Vargas, 35, the club's current co-president.Then came the election of Donald Trump as Obama's successor in 2016, putting Republicans back in control of the White House.

We are hearing about all the impediments Republicans are trying to put in the way of people voting. At times it appears they are trying to turn the United States into a banana republic or the next Belarus. They are doing everything from closing voting locations, scrubbing the voting roles, and now the president has publicly said he is against giving the Post Office the money it needs to keep functioning at full capacity in order to stop them from delivering ballots on time. President Obama called it when he said the president is “kneecapping” the Post Office. Clearly they are doing all this because they can read the tea leaves like the rest of us, they are losing and scared.

The Trump Administration has proposed new legislation that defines gender equality as that between ‘men and women’, thus rendering gender non-conforming people invisible. Obama’s 2012 gender equality policy was trans inclusive, which caused backlash from some.

First Lady Melania Trump will give a speech during tonight’s Republican National Convention and she wants everyone to know it will not be plagiarized this time.As you may recall, Mrs. Trump lifted, word-for-word, several lines from the speech Mrs.

Roseanne Barr. Remember her?It’s certainly been a while since we’ve heard anything from the disgraced sit-com star/Trump devotee.

We are hearing about all the impediments Republicans are trying to put in the way of people voting. At times it appears they are trying to turn the United States into a banana republic or the next Belarus. They are doing everything from closing voting locations, scrubbing the voting roles, and now the president has publicly said he is against giving the Post Office the money it needs to keep functioning at full capacity in order to stop them from delivering ballots on time. President Obama called it when he said the president is “kneecapping” the Post Office. Clearly they are doing all this because they can read the tea leaves like the rest of us, they are losing and scared.

A proposed Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule would allow federally funded homeless shelters to judge a person’s physical characteristics, such as height and facial hair, in determining whether they belong in a women’s or men’s shelter, according to a leaked copy of the rule’s text obtained by Vox.

For one more week (and not a moment longer) doing my very best to ignore the world and appreciate the moment… ?+??=?A post shared by Rufus Gifford (@rufusgifford) on In April, we introduced you to Rufus Gifford, who had just been named deputy campaign manager for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.Prior to that, 45-year-old Gifford served as the U.S.

ABOVE: Pete's nips.

I’m not quite sure why I post this photo. Other than to remind myself in difficult times to always try and maintain this hopeful and idealistic look in my eyes. This was yesterday after having spent time with President Obama in Denmark, an event that reaffirmed my hope.

Rufus Gifford, the gay man who was ambassador to Denmark in President Obama’s second term, has been named deputy campaign manager for Joe Biden’s presidential effort.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed Christian conservative Kayleigh McEnany, who is his re-election campaign’s national press secretary, to be the new White House press secretary.