Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington.

As we all know, February is Black History Month, so it’s a great time to brush up on Black history and educate yourself.

While many Americans have a vast array of knowledge about Juneteenth, others don’t know as much about the holiday and the history behind it.

As we all know, February is Black History Month, so it’s a great time to brush up on Black history and educate yourself.

So on that fateful night in 1969, when they [rose up] together to say, Were tired of this policing. Furthering Mocks point, GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis says that the LGBTQ movement really caught fire [with] allies coming on. Now were having less conversations about why we should center black lives in this conversation. So what I would say to them, in this time period, is to refocus yourself in this. And then from there, you build more and more and more to be an activist or to be a co-conspirator in our movement.

Netflix‘13th’Directed by Ava DuVernay (she’ll come up again in this list), the documentary shows you how America changed after the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, but also kickstarted the prison boom in America. ‘Moonlight’This Oscar-winning picture tells the story of a young black gay man living in Miami. chronicles the Central Park Five, a group of young black teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit. The documentary tells the story of the days of protests, unrest and riots that followed. It’s a great film that shows how two different groups of people can react to fatal police shootings.

SAN ANTONIO June 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of LGBTQ+ Pride traditions in the United States, and Monday is the first day of Pride Month. The first Pride March was held in New York City on June 28, 1970, on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, according to the LOC. In San Antonio, drag queen Tencha La Jefa is no stranger to Pride performances. Me being older, when I first came to San Antonio, Pride was small here, Tencha La Jefa said. To me, Pride Month -- Pride period -- nowadays, the way things are, is just living life to the fullest and being able to be you and being able to be yourself, being accepted by so many people.