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10/01/2025

Franklin E. Kameny (1925–2011), a New York-born Harvard-educated astronomer, became a pivotal gay rights activist after being fired from his U.S. Army Map Service job in 1957 for being gay, a casualty of the Lavender Scare’s purge of federal employees.

Kameny fought back, filing the first gay rights petition to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1961, arguing his dismissal violated civil liberties. Though he lost, his case set a precedent for challenging discriminatory policies.

He co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., and led the first gay pickets outside the White House in 1965, demanding equal employment rights.

Kameny’s 1971 testimony before Congress helped end the federal ban on gay employees.

His home, later a National Historic Landmark, housed early activist meetings. Kameny’s relentless legal battles reshaped workplace protections, earning him a 2009 apology from the U.S. government. Frank donated thousands of letters, documents, and other memorabilia to the Library of Congress and Smithsonian.

In 2010, a stretch of Washington D.C.’s 17th Street in the Dupont Circle neighborhood was named Frank Kameny Way.

October is LGBTQ History Month, a time to reflect on the LGBTQ pioneers who shaped our future and paved the way for innovation, creativity and a better future for q***r communities.

10/01/2025

Each October, we celebrate the genuine and inspiring stories of LGBTQ+ trailblazers, artists, and everyday individuals who worked (and are working) at creating paths for others in the q***r community.

Please take a few minutes to read, comment and share on these posts. Help us to share their stories, remember their names, and amplify their contributions.

And best of all—keep making a difference in your own sphere! This is your story, and you’re just getting started!

Happy October! ❤️

09/15/2025
09/12/2025

BREAKING: Journalist and college professor Stacey Patton goes viral by penning a stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list” and recounting the horror that he inflicted on her.

We cannot allow this tragic assassination to whitewash Kirk’s legacy…

“I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list,” Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers on Facebook. “His so-called ‘Professor Watchlist,’ run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.”

“For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: ‘bitch,’ ‘c*nt,’ ‘n****r.’ They threatened all manner of violence,” she continued.

“They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired,” Patton wrote. “The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an es**rt, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.”

“And I am not unique,” she added.

“Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, q***r scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse,” Patton wrote.

“Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!” she continued.

“That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies,” she wrote.

“And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater,” Patton continued. “But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!”

“And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.”

“But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups,” she continued. “Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.”

“It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant,” she concluded.

This is pure unvarnished truth from Patton. Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him, but nor did his victims deserve the hell that he unleashed on them. If Americans are going to build a more peaceful future for ourselves we must condemn political violence while also condemning the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that made Kirk a multimillionaire.

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09/11/2025

LGBTQ Baha’i take on Charlie Kirk and Baha’is who mourn and support his agenda

Baha’is please take note , the lack of LGBTQ visibility truly is insulting to the concept of unity in diversity, being L...
09/08/2025

Baha’is please take note , the lack of LGBTQ visibility truly is insulting to the concept of unity in diversity, being LGBTQ isn’t a temporary trend like Baha’i leadership claims

We don’t have the equivalency of any self identified LGBTQ Baha’i organization in the Faith in any official capacity
08/23/2025

We don’t have the equivalency of any self identified LGBTQ Baha’i organization in the Faith in any official capacity

Pope Leo XVI is set to meet with representatives from a pro-LGBTQIA+ equality group.

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