Results for: be the change
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‘Be the Change’ Creates Network of Care in Tennessee Prisons
Be the Change offers programs inside like support groups for trans women, addiction and recovery support, and those facing lengthy or lifetime sentences.
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Clare Forstie Wants To Change the Way You Think About the Queer Midwest
“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”
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This Episode of “Real Housewives of New York” Was Performative Pride Allyship at Its Finest
“March Madness”, as completely unhinged and dated as it is, also reveals something far more depressing and contemporary: Nothing has really changed.
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LGBTQ+ Documentaries To Watch This Pride Month That Aren’t the Most Obvious Ones
Featuring a lot of underground and underrated films, check out this list of three decades of documentaries about queer and trans lives.
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Making An Independent Documentary About Queer Women Is Like Jumping Without A Net
I will never stop trying to tell our stories.
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I Thought About Leaving Florida — Learning About Our Queer History Convinced Me To Stay
The truth is, as hard as I ride for it now, there was a time when I couldn’t imagine living here anymore, too.
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Grab Your Backpack (No the Other One): Here’s a Pride Survival Pack!
Here are eight books, seven poems, six people to follow, five ways to support black trans people, four places to donate, three shows, two albums, two games, and one tool to get you ready for Pride 2022!
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How Is Your Zodiac Sign Celebrating Pride This Year?
How’s your zodiac sign celebrating Pride this year? This gay horoscope writer has the answers for horny Capricorns and watery Pisces alike.
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Eight LGBTQ+ Country Music Singers on Pride and Queering Country
Harlan Howard said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth” — I’m pretty sure queer folks have a lot of truth to tell.
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I Have To Choose Between Being Disabled and Queer
In queer spaces, I cannot be disabled. In disability spaces, people ask if my spouse is my sister. I hope that someday I don’t have to choose.
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I Was Better Connected to the Queer Community During Lockdown
As a disabled person, I knew participating in LGBTQ Zoom events wouldn’t magically cure me of my loneliness. Even so, it was amazing to be a part of something larger than myself. I don’t want to lose this access.
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In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
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That Was the Era: Photographer Phyllis Christopher on Her Book “Dark Room”
“It was a political statement to portray sex, to portray queer sex, as it was to demand civil rights in the daytime.”
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It’s Lit: Queer Youth on an Online Book Club Club That Became Family
“Well the premise combined two of my favorite things: being gay and reading, so I was naturally intrigued.”
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How To Host a Restorative Dinner Party for Your Chosen Queer Fam
Over the past few years, I’ve learned a lot about how to curate and host a sacred queer space. It feels important to share some of the practical things I’ve learned so you can curate those spaces, too.
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You Are Queer Enough
Are there certain stereotypes and expectations in the queer community that keep you from feeling valid? Babe this is for you.
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Queer IRL: Autostraddle’s 2021 Pride Gallery!
“I am SO THANKFUL to be vaccinated and alive and gay as fuck.”
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Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride
As a gay parent, I have a lot of grievances about Pride — not one of them is about bare body parts or leather dykes and daddies.
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27 Big Brands Selling LGBTQ+ Pride Apparel in 2022, Loosely Ranked By Subjective Criteria
Another year, another chance for big brands to give money to big non-profits and remind us that love is love, love is for everyone, love unites, etc.
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Principles of Pride: Sex Work Is Real Work, Sex Workers Are Fucking Revolutionary
A free world for sex workers would be a free world for people’s bodies, desires, and pleasures — that is to say, a world worth fighting for.