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Monday Meme: Lily Iconic and legendary are words that barely scratch the surface when it comes to Lily Tomlin. The comedian, actress, writer and producer turns 77 this week and we're honoring her with a Monday Meme.

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Monday Meme: Wild Thing Born today in 1914, writer and dancer Jack Dunphy once said, "I never wanted fame." His lover of  more than 3 decades, Truman Capote was quite the opposite.

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New Doc, “We Exist: Beyond Binary” To Premiere at Boulder Pridefest Viva the gender revolution! As we evolve so does our idea of gender so thank goodness for ongoing conversations on the topic.

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Monday Meme: Madonna We're celebrating the Queen herself, who turns 58 tomorrow, with a Monday Meme dedicated to asking for what you want.

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Olympian Isadora Cerullo Gets Engaged at Rio Rugby Field

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…

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Monday Meme: Andy Had he survived a routine operation in 1987, Andy Warhol would have turned 88 on August 6.

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Navy Names Ship After Harvey Milk

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…

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Monday Meme: Cool Happy Monday! The order of the day? Staying inside and staying cool! We turn to gay young adult author Tim Federle for Monday Meme inspiration.

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How Tim Kaine Changed His Mind on Gay Marriage

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…

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DNC Welcomes Most Pro-LGBT Platform Ever The 2016 Democratic National Convention kicked off earlier this week by approving the most pro-LGBT rights platform ever.

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Monday Meme: Enthusiasm Born today in 1844, painter, sculptor and educator Thomas Eakins is unquestionably one of America's master artists.

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Sweet Starbucks Proposal for Actor Daniel Franzese

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…

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Monday Meme: Bacon Love-- part of a balanced breakfast! Today's Monday meme features gay icon Rock Hudson and a quote from underrated but important LGBT author Patricia Nell Warren.

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LGBT Wedding Spending Nearly Doubled Since Equality Ruling A new study on LGBTQ weddings, released earlier this month from The Knot, finds that spending on weddings has almost doubled since last year's historic Supreme Court ruling.

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WATCH: New Ad Hopes to Change Minds About Transgender Equality

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…

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Monday Meme: Mistakes

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…

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Puerto Rico Unveils Monument to LGBT and Orlando Victims

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…