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Severely impacted by COVID-19, New York’s Stonewall Inn — the historic LGBTQ landmark and site of the Stonewall Riots in 1969 — has launched a fundraiser with the hopes of reopening post-pandemic. The new GoFundMe ties together a pair of Stonewall-associated fundraisers — one to provide funds to the bar’s …

The first LGBT Pride parade — officially known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March — took place 50 years ago to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riot, an uprising against police brutality and harassment led by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the Stonewall Inn. This year, amid the …

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will charge the three other ex-police officers involved in George Floyd‘s death and upgrade the charges against Derek Chauvin — the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck — to second-degree murder, the Star Tribune reports. All four officers — Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng …

Smash, the short-lived musical television series about the making of a Broadway show, is being adapted for the actual Broadway stage, with Steven Spielberg once again serving as producer on the project. “I am personally thrilled to be a part of this musical and its road to Broadway,” Spielberg, who …

Dan Colucci’s cigarette habit started before he was a teenager. It was part of his ritual on the way to middle school, when he would pass by a local gas station in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. “Packs of cigarettes were sitting loose,” he tells Rolling Stone. “So, I would just go …

It used to take Robert Burck (a.k.a. the Naked Cowboy) an hour and a half to get from his home in Queens to Times Square, where he has been performing in his skivvies for 20 years. In the age of COVID-19 and social-distancing, he can clock into work, metaphorically, in …

Charlotte Figi — the young girl who became a leading symbol for the medical benefits of cannabis and CBD after it helped treat her rare form of epilepsy — died Wednesday. She was 13. Figi’s death was confirmed in a message posted on her mother Paige’s Facebook page by a …

Police in Suffolk County, New York unveiled a “significant piece of evidence” in the still-unsolved case of the Gilgo Beach, Long Island serial killer. At a press conference Thursday, Suffolk Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart released photos of a portion of a belt found at the crime scene that investigators believe …

Despite whatThe Jetsonsand your stoned conversations in college may have predicted, we are almost two decades into the 21st century, and we still don’t live in outer space. (We also don’t have flying cars, robot maids, or whatever the hell Spacely Space Sprockets are supposed to be, but let’s focus …

A new finding from a Centers for Disease Control report has epidemiologists and mental health experts stumped and concerned. According to the report, teenage suicide rates have increased nearly 56% from 2007 to 2017. The rate of 6.8 deaths per 100,000 people between the ages of 10 and 24 has …