Today brings a huge court ruling, following a national holiday weekend whose barbecues had a healthy side dish of gay visibility. How'd you spend yours?
Today is Harvey Milk's birthday, and we look back at a year where his legacy of fighting for equal rights for LGBT Americans was more visible than ever.
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