There are anniversary trips, and then there are anniversary trips where champagne is waiting, flowers are delicately placed around the room and bath bombs practically beg you to cancel your plans, fill the tub and forget that the outside world exists.

Among the millions of views and likes, the messages that stayed with Chris Stanley weren't about going viral. They came from viewers who said his videos had helped them accept themselves.

Steven remembers when surviving HIV meant simply enduring.

The medications keeping him alive often left him doubled over with nausea and chronic diarrhea. Pills had to be taken at precise times, sometimes on an empty stomach, sometimes with food. Switching to a new drug carried its own risk because if it failed, there might not be another option. 

Paris may be known as the City of Lights but experiencing it beside someone you love gives those lights an entirely different meaning.

Wilton Drive gallery owner Claudia Castillo says her studio, with its many rainbow-inspired artworks and prominent paintings and sculptures of the male form, displays LGBTQ pride all year long.