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LGBTQ+ Project
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A digital archive dedicated to preserving and celebrating LGBTQ+ history. The project features a curated database of historical figures and events, personal coming out stories, and community-driven content.
🌈 June 25, 1978
The rainbow flag flew for the first time at SF’s Gay Freedom Day parade. Created by Gilbert Baker, it wasn’t just a symbol—it was a signal of visibility, unity, and pride.

“We needed something beautiful, something from us.” —Gilbert Baker

#queerhistory
June 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“The hardest part was feeling I had a right to own my life and my identity.”

Coming out isn’t always loud.
Sometimes it’s just… surviving, and still saying: I’m here. I’m mine.

#ComingOutStories #LGBTQPlusProject #QueerTruths #Pride365 #OwnYourStory
June 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
June 20, 1980
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hit the streets of SF for the first time—veils, face paint, protest in full drag.
They weren’t just marching. They were ministering.

Queer defiance in full habit.
Purpose in paint.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQPlusProject #SistersOfPerpetualIndulgence
June 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🗓️ On This Day in Queer History
June 19, 1972 — the first Gay Pride Week kicks off in Ann Arbor, MI.

Today we also honor James Baldwin (1924–1987), whose words cut through silence and demanded truth:

“If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

#QueerHistory
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🖤 TELL US YOUR COMING OUT STORY 🖤
Quiet or chaotic. Joyful or defiant. It’s yours — and it belongs in the archive.

📝 Submit it at LGBTQPlusProject.org
Because queer history includes you.

#ComingOut #QueerHistory #LGBTQPlusProject #TellYourStory #QueerJoy
June 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
JOY IN CHAOS.

The haircut you weren’t ready for.
The mixtape that saved your life.
The mess that made you.

We don’t need perfection to feel joy.
We just need the guts to keep going.

#QueerJoy #JoyInChaos #PunkPride #QueerZine #LGBTQPlusProject #GrungeGlow
June 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎨 In LA, @GettyMuseum opens “$3 Bill”—a wild, beautiful dive into a century of queer art: Harlem drag balls, ACT UP protest pieces, and everything in between.

🚫 In Texas, Fort Worth just removed an LGBTQ+ historical marker. Gone. Erased.

One day. Two Americas.

#QueerHistory #QueerJoy #Pride2025
June 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🖤 Coming Out Story of the Week
“I was too well-behaved to even consider I might be gay.”
It wasn’t until adulthood that the silence cracked open.

Some of us bloom late.
But we’re here now—and that counts.

📝 Read & share stories at:
🌐 LGBTQPlusProject.org
#ComingOutStories
June 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🗓️ On this day in Queer History

📍1983 — The New York Times publishes its first front-page story on AIDS.
📍1988 — The Southern Baptist Convention publicly calls homosexuality “an abomination.”

This is our reminder:
We turned grief into power.

🖤 Archive. Remember. Resist.
🌐 LGBTQPlusProject.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🖤 Queer Joy in Solitude
No party. No stage. Just you—
a mirror dance, a half-written poem,
a book that gets it.

Quiet doesn’t mean invisible.
Joy can be still and sacred.

📍LGBTQPlusProject.org
#QueerJoy #QuietRebellion #AloneNotLonely #LGBTQPlusProject #ZinePride #QueerZine #GrungeJoy
June 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎸 QUEER JOY IN UNAPOLOGETIC STYLE 🎨
Style isn’t just clothes.
It’s armor. It’s protest. It’s power.

Fishnets in daylight. Leather in the grocery aisle.
Hot pink mohawks in boardrooms.
Because we refuse to disappear.

Style is joy. Queer fashion is resistance.

🌐 LGBTQPlusProject.org

#QueerJoy
June 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
QUEER JOY LIVES HERE.

Fists up.
Hearts loud.
Kisses in the chaos.
Laughter in the resistance.

📣 PRIDE IS RESISTANCE.
We don’t just march — we celebrate
We don’t just fight — we feel

#QueerJoy #PrideIsPolitical #LGBTQPlusProject #BlueskyZine #QueerZine

🌐 LGBTQPlusProject.org
June 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🗓️ June 14: Queer Resistance Echoes

1922: USSR decriminalizes homosexuality
1983: Philly’s queer youth school sees its first grads
2020: 15,000+ march in Brooklyn for Black trans lives—largest in history

📣 These aren’t just moments—they’re proof we’ve always fought back.

#QueerHistory
June 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🌈 Intergenerational Queer Joy 🖤

Chosen family dinners. Protest hugs. Legacy letters. Late-night organizing with queer elders.

Every laugh we share stitches another thread into the tapestry they tried to unravel.

🖋 Got a story? Share it. Pass it on.
📍 LGBTQPlusProject.org

#QueerJoy #chosenfamily
June 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🕯 We Remember Pulse
June 12, 2016 — 49 queer lives were taken in a space meant for joy, safety, and celebration.
They were mostly Black and Latinx.
They were dancing.
They should still be here.

We remember.
We resist.
We say their names.

🌐 LGBTQPlusProject.org
#PulseRemembrance #SayTheirNames
June 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
QUEER JOY IS SURVIVAL
“I came out at 17. My mom cried. My dad went silent. But I never felt freer.”

This is what resistance looks like.
This is what queer joy sounds like.

🖤 Read more real coming out stories.
🖋 Share your own. Archive the truth.
🌐 LGBTQPlusProject.org

#QueerJoy #digitalResistance
June 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🌈 QUEER JOY IN SURVIVAL
We weren’t supposed to make it.
We did anyway.
And we laughed. We loved. We danced in the wreckage.

Queer joy isn’t a side effect — it’s resistance.

#QueerJoy #DigitalResistance #ComingOutStories #QueerSurvival
June 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🧷 YOUR STORY BELONGS HERE.
📢 Got a coming out story? We want it — raw, real, and yours.
Every voice matters. Every truth deserves to be archived.

📡 Share it now: LGBTQPlusProject.org
🖤 All stories will be featured.
🧷 Queer history is made of stories like yours.
#ComingOutStories #DigitalResistance
June 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🖤 QUEER JOY IS THE BEAT OF THE BALLROOM
Joy that struts.
Vogues.
Dips.
Snatches trophies.

In heels & house names, we made ourselves legendary.
Category is: JOY.
And it’s real.

#BallCulture #QueerJoy #PunkPride #Realness #LGBTQPlusProject #BlueskySocial #ZineHistory #VogueIsResistance
June 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🖤THEY RAIDED EVE’S HANGOUT
Cops stormed one of the only queer women’s spaces in NYC.
Deported Eva Kotchever.

But she fought back with a zine: Lesbian Review.
Words became weapons. Joy became defiance.

⚡ Queer joy is protest.
⚡ We remember. We riot.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQPlusProject #PunkPride
June 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🎮 Queer Joy in Gaming
It’s not just play. It’s power.
It’s avatars that reflect us.
It’s safe zones, glitch worlds, found families.
It’s resistance with a health bar.

🏳️‍🌈 We’re here. We’re queer. We’re in your leaderboard.
LGBTQPlusProject.org

#QueerGaming #GaymersUnite #JoyIsResistance #PunkPride
June 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🕯️ “I came out to my family during Diwali… I wanted the festival of light to illuminate my truth.”

Raw. Brave. Unfiltered.

Read & share real coming out stories →
LGBTQPlusProject.org

#ComingOutStories #QueerTruth #LGBTQPlusProject #AgainstAllOdds #PunkPride
June 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
QUEER JOY
Joy in queer art.
In drag. In zines. In poems. In murals. In joy itself.
Queer art is resistance. Queer art is community. Queer art is survival. 🖤🎨

#QueerJoy #QueerArt #Pride2025 #LGBTQPlusProject
June 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
ON THIS DAY — JUNE 8
1990: Queer Nation hits the streets of NYC for its first demo.
Radical. Loud. Unapologetic.
“We’re here, we’re queer — get used to it.” 🖤

Queer joy is resistance.

#QueerHistory #QueerNation #Pride2025 #LGBTQPlusProject
June 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
QUEER JOY — DAY 8
Joy in language.
In reclaimed words. In Polari. In chosen names. In they/them. In ballroom slang. In “we’re here, we’re queer.”

We bend language toward joy. 🖤🏳️‍🌈

#QueerJoy #Pride2025 #QueerWords #LGBTQPlusProject
June 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM