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The National Park Service has recognized the historic significance of gay rights activist Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, by listing his home in the National Register of Historic Places.

Opponents of a California law requiring that the contributions of gays and lesbians be taught in public schools failed Wednesday in their attempt to qualify a ballot referendum to repeal the law.

Equality advocate Arthur Evans, co-founder of the Gay Activists Alliance, has died of a heart attack at age 68.

Anti-gay activists are trying to paint California’s new gay history law as a measure that will expose young children to homosexuality, much as proponents of Proposition 8 claimed in 2008.

The last known gay survivor of the Nazi holocaust, Rudolph Brazda, has died at age 98. Brazda spend three years at Buchenwald because of his sexual orientation.

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools.

California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum.

California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum.

Just a 90-minute drive from San Francisco, the Russian River has a long history of being one of the Bay Area’s favorite getaways. "It’s gays meet hippies meet rednecks - and we all get along," says one Guerneville resident.

From the atrocity of lives lost in the outbreak of AIDS, to the front lines of activism in the fight for human rights for all LGBT people, Vito Russo was there.