ALT A split graphic, one photo of Donna Hitchens at a podium with a newspaper in her hand. the headline has the word "homosexuals" on it. The bottom photo features Donna Hitchens and Roberta smiling. It is in black and white and they are both in blazers. In the middle: NCLR Founder Donna Hitchens is LGBTQ History

ALT The original cast of Rent is grouped on Stage. Many of them have their fists in the air. National Center for LGBTQ Rights logo is in the top left corner. This Monday, three decades of Rent alumni are coming together for a one night performance in celebration of 30 years of the iconic Broadway play that portrays the stories of LGBTQ people and the HIV/AIDS crisis. The show will be livestreamed straight from Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre.

ALT In contradiction to the lack of response from politicians and health officials during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, members of the theatre community acted quickly to raise awareness and pool resources. Playwrights and performers around the country also confronted the problem onstage in shows. The original cast of Rent is grouped on Stage. Many of them have their fists in the air. National Center for LGBTQ Rights logo is in the top left corner.

ALT Debuting in 1996, rock opera Rent brought the stories of young LGBTQ people living through the AIDS crisis to the stage. The original cast of Rent is grouped on Stage. Many of them have their fists in the air. National Center for LGBTQ Rights logo is in the top left corner.

ALT For livestream info and tickets: broadwaycares.org Every livestream ticket purchased provides life-sustaining meals, medication and healthcare for people with with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses. The original cast of Rent is grouped on Stage. Many of them have their fists in the air. National Center for LGBTQ Rights logo is in the top left corner.

ALT In blue: Out100 2026's most impactful and influential lgbtq+ people NCLR’s Shannon Minter, GLAD Law’s Jennifer Levi, and our plaintiff Logan Ireland among named. A collage of a photo of Shannon in a black tux, Logan in a blue army tux with honorary pins holding up a degree, and a photo of Jennifer Levi in a blue shirt

ALT A photo of Shannon. Out100 is overlaid on the photo. His quote: “We are here and fighting to help make a better world for you.” The word educators in the corner of the page.

ALT A photo of Logan in a Hawaiin shirt with military badges. He stands in front of an American flag. his quote: “Sometimes you have to plant trees knowing you may never sit beneath their shade. Plant them anyway because someone did it before you.”

ALT A photo of Jennifer Levi smiling in a grassy area. “Don’t wait for things to feel safe before you act on what matters. That moment is unlikely to come.” The word "innovators is in the corer of the page.

ALT An screenshot of an AP article titled "Deported to Central African Republic, a transgender woman who lived openly in Miami is hiding again" “My whole life, my whole identity, was taken away from me” -Daniela Fuentes A picture of Daniela in a blue baseball cap and a red tshirt

ALT Now living in a compound in the Central African Republic — a place with a history of conflict that the U.S. State Department advises American travelers to avoid - Fuentes and other deportees have no identification documents, can’t work, and are advised to stay inside.

ALT Fuentes is one of tens of thousands of people have been deported to “third countries.”

ALT National Latino AIDS Awareness Day La Ropa Sucia se Lava en Casa. Dirty Clothes are Washed in the House. A drawing of a clothes line with pants and shirts cross the graphic essay by Ana Garcia

ALT Growing up, I was taught there are things you don’t talk about. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, I learned that subjects not meant for polite conversation were many and varied. Topics such as mental health, sexual orientation, and familial hardships were off the table. It is a generational silence, passed down from generation to generation, transported across borders and finding new soil in the United States. It is a silence that kills.

ALT An ongoing play in San Francisco is telling the story of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot - a trans-led resistance against police harassment in the 1960s that happened just a few blocks away from the theater. A still of the play. A person wearing an apron floral dress sits while a person in a glitter dress stands behind them.

ALT Set within a 1960s-inspired cafeteria, the immersive theatrical experience brings this pivotal, pre-Stonewall moment to life. A still from the play - a group of trans women block a police officer on the cafeteria table

ALT Audiences will sit shoulder-to- shoulder with the cast, as they witness the resilience and defiance of the “screaming queens” who fought back against police harassment and asserted their right to exist. The Compton’s uprising was the first known militant act of queer resistance against systemic oppression in the U.S. A still from the play - a person in a glitter yellow dress and a blonde updo appears to be singing or talking

ALT The production is written by Collette LeGrande, Donna Personna (both of whom were part of Tenderloin’s queer community during the era), and Mark Nassar, directed by Ezra Reaves, and produced by the Tenderloin Museum. A still from the play - a waitress talks to a person in a sailor uniform.

ALT Dolores Huerta in a blue suit and tan hat stands in front of the exhibit. her hands on her hips, she looks into the camera lens. On top of the photo is a screenshot of a Los Angeles Times article that reads "An exhibition created with Dolores Huerta traces U.S. deportation history"

ALT Nearly six months after Dolores Huerta went public with sexual abuse allegations against former labor leader Cesar Chavez, with whom she co-founded United Farmworkers, the 96-year-old activist said she’s prioritized involving herself in labor and women’s rights. Part of that work is now on view at the California Museum in Sacramento in an exhibition called “Help Wanted/Leave Now: ‘Operation Wetback’ and the Revolving Door of Mass Deportation.

ALT On top of the photo is a quote from Huerta: “It’s devastating, the amount of cruelty that we’re seeing ... and a lot of the people that are in detention centers are workers. Whether they’re farmworkers or construction workers, hotel workers, restaurant workers, nannies who take care of children, these are working people, and yet they are being treated as if they were some sort of horrible criminals.”