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The “Drag Show” exhibit at Cal State Long Beach’s art museum showcases New York City’s underground and pioneering gay, drag, and transgender cultures from the 1980s. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Florida’s effort to enforce a state law that targets drag performances and, critics say, imposes illegal restrictions on free speech. Photos: Q Voice News

Almost 50 years before “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “Pose,” Sir Lady Java was a pioneering transgender activist fighting against a Los Angeles law that restricted drag performance. Photo: Sir Lady Java

Palm Springs Pride has designated the theme for 2023 Pride Week as “Drag Now. Drag Forever.” Organizers said the move is a way to take a stand against anti-drag bills that have been proposed or passed around the country and the increase in anti-LGBTQ+ extremism as well as an effort to support the historic form of artistic expression and advocacy. Photo: City of Palm Springs

With apparently no advance warning, Outfest has laid off all remaining employees, including those people who were placed on mandatory, unpaid leave last month by the organization. Photo: Outfest

Jirair Ratevosian, is Armenian and identifies as gay, is a candidate in the 2024 election for the House of Representatives in California’s 30th Congressional District, which has the largest population of Armenian Americans in the nation. Photo: Provided by Jirair Ratevosian campaign

This memorial outside the site of Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, memorializes the 49 people who were killed. The massacre was the worst attack on LGBTQ people in U.S. history. A foundation formed to raise money for a museum at the Pulse nightclub shooting site announced it has abandoned those plans. The onePULSE Foundation in Orlando confirmed it will forgo plans for a permanent Pulse nightclub museum.Photo: Charlie Gage for Q Voice News.

Brazilian soap opera star Amaury Lorenzo has come out as part of the LGBTQ community during an interview with his gay co-star Diego Martins. Photo: Amaury Lorenzo Instagram

A display at The GLBT History Museum tells the story of Jiro Onuma, a gay Japanese immigrant who came to San Francisco in 1920 and who was imprisoned an internment camp during World War II. In an effort to celebrate and preserve America’s LGBTQ+ history, two bills were introduced in Congress on Friday to create a National Museum of American LGBTQ+ History and Culture. Photo: Provided by GLBT History Museum.

Police have arrested the teenager suspected of shooting and killing journalist and LGBTQ+ activist Josh Kruger in his Philadelphia home earlier this month. Robert Davis, 19, surrendered without incident and was arrested at his mother’s home in south Philadelphia on Wednesday, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Photos: Josh Kruger, left, via Instagram, Robert Davis provided by Philadelphia Police Department

“Going Varsity in Mariachi” is one of the films with LGBTQ themes that will screen at AFI Fest 2023 in Hollywood. Photo: Provided by AFI Fest.

Laphonza Butler, the first Black LGBTQ+ U.S. senator, won’t run in 2024 for the California seat to which she was recently appointed. Photo: Power Summit 2022

Sonja Shaw is president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board of education. She supports a policy passed by the board in July that requires school officials to out trans students to their parents, On Thursday, a judge in San Bernardino blocked the policy from being enforced. Photo: Chino Valley Unified School District board meeting screenshot.

Venice Pride flies the world’s largest rainbow pride flag at Windward Plaza during the 2018 event. The FBI has found an alarming rise in hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community, according to its annual crime report for 2022. Photo: Adam Fossier

The family of Robert Davis, accused of killing Philadelphia gay journalist Josh Kruger, pictured, is saying the two were in a sexual relationship that began when Davis was 15, and that they used drugs together. Relatives also say Davis told them that Kruger had threatened to post explicit videos of Davis online, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Photo: Josh Kruger Instagram

The couple behind the photography book “Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love” offered a glimpse into the project that uncovered queer romances on National Coming Out Day.

The exhibit “ONE magazine at Seventy” celebrates the 70th anniversary of the groundbreaking One magazine, the first nationally distributed LGBTQ+ magazine in the United States. Photos: One Archives at USC Libraries

Only 55% Of Latinos have been tested for HIV. HIV testing is the only way to know someone is HIV positive. There is no look, there is no one symptom that tells us if someone is HIV positive. Photo: iStock.

Momma performs at Club Lucky’s sixth anniversary party in March 2014. Photos: David M. Mosqueda

Grammy- and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens has dedicated his new album “Javlin” to his late partner Evan Richardson. Photo: Evans Richardson

Shortly after midnight on Jan. 1, 1967, as balloons dropped from the ceiling to mark the New Year at the Black Cat, undercover Los Angeles police officers, who were waiting for the right moment to pounce.

Philadelphia journalist and activist Josh Kruger, a gay man, was shot to death early Monday at his home in the city

Following a staff attempt to unionize, LGBTQ+ nonprofit Outfest laid off five employees, while its executive director, Damien Navarro, has taken an unanticipated leave of absence. The organization’s board said the layoffs were pre-planned. Photo: Outfest

It’s Cassandro’s time to shine.

Truvada, or PrEP, is a medication that can reduce HIV infection by more than 90 percent. Health officials consider it an important HIV prevention tool. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have collaborated to reintroduce the PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2023 to help reduce HIV. One of the things that needs to be talked about is that many older people are living with HIV or are at risk of contracting the virus. In 2021, the latest year for which data is available, people over age 50 accounted for 53 percent of people living with HIV in the U.S. By 2030, that proportion may be as high as 70 percent. Also, contrary to stereotype, older people are sexual beings and therefore engage in sexual and other behaviors that put them at risk for the virus infection. In 2021, people 50 and older accounted for 16.4 percent of new HIV diagnoses among those aged 13 and older. Photo: Gilead Sciences.

After days of detailing racist, transphobic, hostile, and abusive behavior on and off sets with several people involved with “American Horror Story,” including Ryan Murphy and Emma Roberts, Angelica Ross has announced that she is “leaving Hollywood.” Photo: Macall Polay/FX

Doxy-PEP is a new sexual health tool available for gay and bisexual men and transgender women by prescription from the doctor. The antibiotic doxycycline can be taken within 72 hours after condomless sex, including oral and anal to prevent an STI. It’s like a morning-after pill but for bacterial STIs. Photo: David M. Mosqueda

California has become the first state to declare a Transgender History Month.

My friend, Harriet Perl, of blessed memory, lived well into her 90s and died in 2013.

The San Francisco Eagle Bar announced that Eagle Plaza, the world’s first public space centering queer history and the leather community, will be inaugurated this weekend as part of the city’s upcoming Leather Pride Fest 2023. Photo: EaglePlaza.org

The first comprehensive John Waters exhibit dedicated to the cinema contributions from the “King of Filthy” opens this weekend at the Academy Museum in Hollywood.