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Identities

Stories about race, gender and identity.

PRIDE MONTH

Meet the 2018 NBC Out #Pride30 honorees

Image: Lei Linh-Pham

Asian America

Rich Pedroncelli / AP

In California, candidates of color count on district elections

Image: Starbucks prepares to close to train staff to prevent racial discrimination in Philadelphia

NBCBLK

Jessica Kourkounis / Reuters

Starbucks is putting its best foot forward. But will it last?

ImagE: Sandra Bullock as Debbie Ocean, Sarah Paulson as Tammy, Rihanna as Nine Ball, Cate Blanchett as Lou and Awkwafina as Constance in Ocean's 8.

Asian America

Barry Wetcher / Warner Bros. Entertainment

'Ocean's 8' brings diversity in representation to the classic heist franchise

TURKEY-GAY-PARADE

NBC Out & Proud

BULENT KILIC / AFP/Getty Images

Transgender 101: What is transgender identity?

Image: Vietnam War demonstrators

Asian America

Courtesy Visual Communications Photographic Archive

As 'Asian American' turns 50, what comes next?

Image: St. Camillus Church

Latino

Andre Chung / NBC News

There are fewer Latino Catholics, but U.S. churches are still counting on them

Image: Residents and visitors attend the first Columbus Pride Festival on April 14, 2018 in Columbus, Indiana.

OUT Life and Style

Scott Olson / Getty Images file

A record 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as LGBT, Gallup estimates

Image: A simulated Non Response Follow-up interview in Houston in Feb. 2016 to prepare for the 2020 census.

Asian America

Scott Dalton / via Census.gov

Concerns grow among Pacific Islander communities as census looms

Image: Jelani Alladin Frozen

NBCBLK

Deen van Meer / Disney

Broadway makes strides in 'color conscious' casting

Image: St. Camillus Church

Latino

Andre Chung / NBC News

There are fewer Latino Catholics, but U.S. churches are still counting on them

Image: Daniela Vega in A Fantastic Woman

OUT Pop Culture

Sony Pictures Classics via AP

LGBTQ representation in film fell in 2017, GLAAD study finds

Image: George E.C. Hayes,Thurgood Marshall,James M. Nabrit

Opinion

Why are schools still segregated 64 years after the Supreme Court ruling?