Alyus The Amazing

  56 Years Since Stonewall: Still Here, Still Loud, Still Proud Today marks 56 years since a bunch of drag queens, trans women, queer youth, and everyone else sick of being shaken down by cops decided enough was enough. We may never know who threw the first brick on June 28, 1969 - or whether there was even a single “first brick” - because Stonewall was never about one person. It was a collective middle finger to a system that tried to keep queer people silent, invisible, and ashamed. Since that night, we’ve kept fighting, kept dancing, and kept surviving. Some milestones worth remembering: 1970: The first Christopher Street Liberation March, the spark of Pride 1973: The APA finally admits we’re not mentally ill and removes homosexuality from the DSM 1978: Harvey Milk’s assassination, which turned grief into a rallying cry 1981: AIDS devastates the community, but queer people organize care when no one else will 1987: ACT UP is born, demanding action while the government...

  10 Years Since Obergefell v Hodges: Love Won, And It’s Not Going Anywhere Back in 2015, the Supreme Court finally recognized what most of us already knew: same-sex couples are perfectly capable of marriage, drama and all. Obergefell v. Hodges confirmed that love is love — and that basic rights like hospital visits, taxes, and joint Netflix accounts should never be exclusive to straight people. Ten years later, we’re still here, rings on fingers, filing joint returns, and raising kids who know that freedom should apply to everyone. Sure, there are folks trying to hit rewind on equality, but spoiler alert: we’re not going back in the closet, and we’re not handing over our hard-won rights. Obergefell matters because nobody is truly free if we aren’t all free. Our neighbors’ rights protect our own, and that solidarity is what keeps this democracy breathing. So yes — celebrate a decade of marriage equality. Smile at every wedding you see. Cheer for the love stories that would ha...