LGBTQ
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The Trouble With National Coming Out Day
Does the day truly represent all LGBTQ folks, or just a privileged few?
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![Black Celebrities Who Are LGBTQ and Proud [UPDATE]](https://assets-server.theroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/14144651/eb30d006a185c19d6270611f23dd46d8-300x169.jpg)
Black Celebrities Who Are LGBTQ and Proud [UPDATE]
It's National Coming Out Day! Here are a few of our favorite Black members of the LGBTQ community and their stories.
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Netflix’s Dahmer Series Is Re-Traumatizing Milwaukee’s Black LGBTQ Community
The families of Dahmer’s victims want and deserve peace, not a glossy reframing of their trauma.
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Trans Woman Kicked out of Florida Club for Using Women’s Restroom
Florida currently prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Trans Students Required to Submit “Evidence” to Use Bathroom of Choice
Students who “oppose” their sex assigned at birth must prove their gender identity through documentation.
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What Year Is This? Is America Stigmatizing Another Virus? Part 1
Let's address the stigma around the monkeypox virus, preferably, before it blows out of proportion.
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3 Dead and 1 Injured in a Suspicious Hit-and-Run Outside Gay Bar in Chicago
At first police said it was too soon to label the incident a hate crime, but now they think the attack was intentional.
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HBO Max’s Legendary Cast, Ballroom Leaders Talk Culture Appropriation and Chosen Families
The ballroom is so much more than the fashion and voguing. It is a safe haven for queer people and the origin of a lot of mainstream trends.
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Pride Flag and 4 Baltimore Homes Set Aflame, Police Investigate as Hate Crime
Three people were inside the homes when they went up in flames.
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Drag Queen Story Time Host Speaks Out after Proud Boys’ Invasion [Updated]
The white supremacist group has graduated from "stop the steal" to "don't say gay."