Over 47 years, the Seattle Gay News has covered thousands of stories that still resonate today. This week we look back at Vol. 44, Issue 25, published on June 17, 2016.

Sun from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. That's what I love about summer in the Pacific Northwest. Tourists flock from all over the globe to cram Pike Place Market.

On June 12, 2016, at 2:02 a.m., 49 lives were taken at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in the largest single incident of mass violence in US history up to that point. Each year since then, we have remembered and honored the lives of our 49 angels.

Still trying to cope with charges of child abuse going back to the 1930s, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles was rocked by a new scandal when the federal Department of Justice announced it was charging a nun with embezzlement.

The Department of Justice announced on June 8 that it will "vigorously" defend a religious exemption from federal civil rights law that allows federally funded religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students.