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SF trans cultural district slowly moves forward

LGBT History Month: Designations highlight diversity, lived experience

by LGBT History Project on October 31, 2018

It’s been a little over a year since San Francisco designated the nation’s first transgender cultural district in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

The Emma Jones Society Convention

LGBT History Month: Florida’s panhandle once hosted the largest LGBT gathering in the country

by LGBT History Project on October 29, 2018

Emma Jones was one of the greatest LGBT allies in the 1960s in northern Florida. Too bad she didn’t actually exist.

Tea with no shade

LGBT History Month: Tea Dance Revival

by LGBT History Project on October 22, 2018

A gloomy, rainy Sunday in September couldn’t stop what was originally planned as an outdoor tea dance among the trees and fountains of Washington Park in Cincinnati.

LDS ancestry database to add same-sex families

LGBT History Month: A look at geneaology

by LGBT History Project on October 8, 2018

Beginning next year, the world’s largest genealogy organization, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will release a redesigned website that will include same-sex families.