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Arizona Theatre Company presents "Master Harold" ...and the Boys.

Finding perspective on race and privilege: "Master Harold"... and the Boys

Also on Arizona Spotlight: A conversation with James D. Diamond about his book "After the Blood Bath", and Part 2 of Youth Crossing Gender Borders, "Changing Expectations".

Tucson’s Pride celebration includes transgender youth from preschool through high school as well as their families and friends.

Youth Crossing Gender Borders, Episode 2: Changing Expectations

Raising a Transgender Preschooler.

The crew of the whaling vessel Pequod, portrayed by Ryan Parker Knox, Christopher Pankratz, Aaron Shand and Eduardo Rodriguez, in The Rogue Theatre's stage adaptation of "Moby Dick".

The great white whale, sighted in Tucson!

Also on Arizona Spotlight: A conversation with ecologist Brad Lancaster; and the series "Youth Crossing Gender Borders" begins.

Lizette and Jose Trujillo are the parents of a transgender son. Lizette is the facilitator
of a support group for parents that is part of the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance (SAGA).

Youth Crossing Gender Borders, Episode 1: Parents Taking Pride

The journey for families when a child comes out as transgender.

The 12th Annual Haunted Halloween Show

Don't be afraid - it's a seasonal collection of stories designed to thrill and chill!

A banner for the Tucson Unified School District hangs in the school board's meeting room at the Duffy Community Center.

Proposed TUSD sex-ed curriculum changes draw vocal criticism and support

Arizona 360 hears from people on both sides of the issue.

Demonstrators call for the firing of a professor at the University of Arizona over a homophobic letter, Sept. 18, 2019.

Demonstrators call for firing of UA professor over homophobic letter

LGBTQ protesters and allies demanded the UA remove professor and former anesthesiology chair Randal Dull.

Katrina Folson, the youth advocate for Friends Advocating Mutual Individuality by Loving Yourself, gave out flyers for the LGBTQ+ support group during the Tohono O'odham Nation's first Pride event June 28, 2019.

Tohono O'odham group celebrates Pride with poetry, storytelling

Organizers said the event was the first-ever Pride celebration on the nation.

Frank Kameny leads a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1965, four years before the Stonewall uprising. "The Lavender Scare" airs Tuesday, June 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS 6.

AZPM celebrates Pride Month with special programming throughout June

LGBTQ programs will air on PBS 6 and PBS 6 PLUS all month long.

Guatemalan father with his 5 year old daughter. It took father and daughter almost two weeks to get to the Arizona border. They are asylum seekers staying at a temporary shelter opened by the City of Tucson to relieve the overflow of migrants at Tucson shelters. (April 18, 2019)

The City of Tucson Offers Hope to Migrants in Need

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Go backstage at Tucson High Magnet School to preview "Our Border Town"; Tucson poet laureate TC Tolbert receives grant from the Academy of American Poets; And, what would you do with the blessing of extra time to be alive?

Arizona Governor Signs Repeal of HIV/AIDS Instruction Law

The state schools superintendent said the law created myth and fear around the mention of LGBTQ relationships in the classroom.

A transgender woman said a pharmacist at a Fountain Hills CVS made her feel humiliated.

Transgender Woman Says She Was Denied Hormone Prescription at CVS Store

Arizona law allows pharmacies to refuse to fill a prescription on religious or moral grounds.

The new winter melon crop grown from heirloom seeds donated by Chinese Tucsonans in the Mission Gardens.

A Taste of Tucson History

Also on Arizona Spotlight: An update on Central American asylum seekers at the U.S. / Mexico border; using music to build community for America's homeless; learn about the traditions of Ramadan from a Tucson Muslim family

Central American Transgender Asylum Seekers Released

Gay men in the same group are still being held in detention.

How the Holocaust History Center Shines a Light on Justice for Global LGBTQ Community

Also on Arizona Spotlight: The Basics of BASIS: How BASIS Transformed from One Tucson School to an International Brand

Houston Wildlife After the Flood

Also on Arizona Spotlight: DACA Phase Out Could Affect 28,000 Arizonans; "The Rainbow 17" Seek Asylum in the US; and Arizona veteran Keith Connolly shares his Vietnam experience...

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