Brooke Sopelsa
@NBCNews journalist + @NYUStern MBA
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Brooke Sopelsa
May 25, 2025, 7:00 AM EDTTrailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok started working as a reporter in 1912, at a time when only about 1 in 5 women in the United States had jobs outside the home and their right to vote was still years away. It was that career that led Hickok to someone who would change her professional and personal life forever: Eleanor Roosevelt.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Brooke Sopelsa |Elizabeth Maline
May 14, 2025, 2:11 PM EDTYeshiva University in New York City has once again banned its LGBTQ student club, saying the group’s actions are “antithetical” to the Jewish educational institution’s religious values. The decision comes two months after the school reached a settlement with students to recognize the group and end a yearslong legal dispute that at one point reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Jo Yurcaba |Brooke Sopelsa
May 13, 2025, 7:26 PM EDTModel and entrepreneur Lauren Chan made queer history on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, which hit stands Tuesday. “I’m the first out lesbian on the cover — with her own cover — and how much that means to me makes that surprise feel so overwhelming,” Chan told People magazine.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Brooke Sopelsa
May 13, 2025, 1:38 PM EDTThe organizers of four of the United Kingdom’s largest LGBTQ Pride marches have banded together to suspend political party participation in their annual events in support of the country’s transgender community. “At a time when trans rights in the UK are under growing attack, our resolve has never been stronger: we will not allow progress to be undone,” the statement issued Monday by Birmingham Pride, Brighton Pride, Manchester Pride and Pride in London said.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Brooke Sopelsa |Kaitlyn Schwanemann
In the eyes of many LGBTQ Catholics, the late Pope Francis created a “seismic shift” toward acceptance. Now, as the world welcomes the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, these lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer faithful say they hope he will continue to move in the same direction.
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