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Olympian Isadora Cerullo Gets Engaged at Rio Rugby Field

With a massive number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender athletes currently competing in the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the inspiring stories have flooded the internet. Our current favorite? The unique and very Olympics-style engagement of rugby player Isadora Cerullo. As the winners of the first ever women’s sevens finals were announced, Cerullo became the first athlete to accept…

Navy Names Ship After Harvey Milk

Last week, the U.S. Navy confirmed that it will name a ship after LGBT activist and icon Harvey Milk. Milk served in the Navy during the Korean War as a diving officer and earned an honorable discharge in 1955. Per CBS News: USNI News, a U.S. Naval Institute website, cited a congressional notification it obtained, signed by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, as saying the second in a new class of fleet…

How Tim Kaine Changed His Mind on Gay Marriage

Democratic vice presidential hopeful Tim Kaine wasn’t always a proponent of same-sex marriage. In 2005, he even ran an ad during his bid for Virginia governor which said, “I’m conservative on personal responsibility, character, family and the sanctity of life,” said Mr. Kaine, who won the race. “I’m against same-sex marriage.” Yet according to the Wall Street Journal, Kaine has changed his mind…

Sweet Starbucks Proposal for Actor Daniel Franzese

You just never know what will happen at your local Starbucks. Actor Daniel Franzese popped the question to his longtime boyfriend this week at the North Hollywood branch of the mega-coffee chain where the pair met.  Franzese, known best for his role as Damian in the 2004’s Mean Girls and more recently on HBO’s Looking, recently proposed to his partner Joseph Bradley Phillips. Here’s People with…

WATCH: New Ad Hopes to Change Minds About Transgender Equality

Set to air during next week’s Republican National Convention, a television commercial illustrates the bigotry and unfairness that transgender people face when wanting to use the restroom. Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, wrote about the ad for Advocate.com: The National Center…

Hello, dahling! The fierce and fabulous Tallulah Bankhead serves as the inspiration for today’s Monday Meme. Unabashedly outspoken and no stranger to scandal, Bankhead is that rare actress whose status as a gay icon has truly survived. Utterly quotable and exaggerated, drag queens and old movie lovers alike have bitten Bankheads’s style for decades. After being a popular theatre actress in…

Puerto Rico Unveils Monument to LGBT and Orlando Victims

A touching and timely tribute came out of Puerto Rico last week. Here’s the story from Pink News: Last week, Puerto Rico unveiled its first LGBT monument, which proclaims “Love is love, is love, is love…” and also serves as a memorial to the lives lost in the shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. The monument is located in San Juan’s Third Millennium Park, at the entrance to the Escobar the…