Results for: Saturday night live
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Dispatches From The Millions Marches: Thousands Show Up For #BlackLivesMatter Nationwide
“While it is definitely tragic we still have to march, there is something beautiful and hopeful about the fact that I am fighting for [my mom’s] freedom as much as mine, and we’re both out here so that my nephew, who just turned one, hopefully won’t have to march when he grows up.”
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Talking About Trayvon
Some things we read and saw on the internet on #trayvon and race in America.
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“I Can’t Stop Hearing the Shots,” Mass Shooting at Colorado Gay Club Leaves 5 Dead, 25 Wounded
Once again, a place that provides refuge to the LGBT community has been visited by violence and tragedy.
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These Are the Five Victims of the Club Q Shooting in Colorado Springs
Four victims of the shooting at an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs have been named, including two Club Q bartenders, Derrick Rump and Daniel Davis Aston, as well as Kelly Loving, Raymond Green and Ashley Paugh, who had an 11-year-old daughter.
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Black Queer Communities Send O’Shae Sibley Home in Love, Resistance, and Vogue
Love has brought together so many Black queer communities over the last 10 days, sending our sibling home not in the violence of the last few minutes of his life — but in the light, movement, vogue, and resistance that defined him. Defines us.
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Donald Trump Is a Loser: We Celebrate, and Then We Get to Work
Yes, this specific nightmare is ending. But we are nowhere near achieving our actual dreams.
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The Vice Presidential Debate Offered More Civility, but Kept the Familiar Side of Misogyny
For a while last night, a small part of our politics seemed to return to normal. Two candidates, sitting across from each other, debated the issues of the day. And yet none of what happened last night was truly normal, and the fact that the debate was happening in the first place was perhaps the most profound display of abnormality.
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Democratic Debate #9: Elizabeth Warren Showcases Her Strategy for Beating Trump by Eviscerating Mike Bloomberg
Aside from launching skilled attacks at her opponents, she was always ready to pivot back to a story about a Nevadan or highlight the specific plight of black and brown people. I think she made her case that if you want a candidate who can go toe-to-toe with an “arrogant billionaire,” she’s ready.
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2 Men Arrested in Horrific Murder of Black Lesbian Couple and Two Children
Two men with criminal records, Justin C. Mann and James W. White, have been arrested in the murder of Brandi Mells and Shanta, Shanise and Jeremiah Myers. Other details about the victims and the crime have also been released by police as friends and family struggle to process this devastating event.
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Brandi Seals Is the 28th Trans Person Murdered in 2017
Seals’ family called the 28-year-old Houston native a beautiful and loving person.
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Here’s How to Help LGBT Houstonians After Hurricane Harvey
On Thursday, I heard we were going to have some rain over the weekend, and now the city that I have lived in my whole life is underwater. How do you grieve such a catastrophic loss?
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“We Have Babies, Run!”: A Lesbian Couple on Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting
“I was in the military for four years, military police, and I never once experienced something like that.”
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15 Dubious Fictional Presidents Who Are Still Better Presidents Than Donald Trump
Yes I would prefer a duck or a cannibal, thank you
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Trump Lit The “Good Ol’ Boy” Torches That Set Charlottesville on Fire
The step from “good ol’ boy” to “armed white supremacist mob member” is as simple as believing you have to protect a way of life that’s under attack by an “other.”
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Every Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer And/Or Trans Woman Running for US Office in 2018
There’s rainbow wave of LGBQ candidates running for office. All of them are dissatisfied with Trump’s status quo, have strong convictions, and to make the world a better place. Here are their stories.
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“No Pride in Borders”: Queer Solidarity on the Streets of London
Hundreds took to the streets of south-east London to support migrants at this weekend’s Peckham Pride.
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Be the Change: 5 Ways to Stand Up to Trump’s Tyranny Right Now
Let’s start a discussion about what we can do as activists, right now in this moment, in the wake of the apocalypse/election.
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2016 Democratic National Convention, Night Three: Thanks Obama!
Obama crowned Hillary his successor and reminded us just how much we’re going to miss him.
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An Introvert Goes Canvassing For Hillary Clinton
Maybe I’m not the best candidate to talk politics with strangers. But I couldn’t shake the feeling — the knowledge, really — that I’d copped out. Bailing on our first female President, of all people, because you’re scared? Nah, girl. I called the guy back, told him I could make it after all, held myself accountable on social media, and freaked out for ten minutes. But it was on. I was going.
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September 7, 2016
“My ancestors didn’t fight for nothing. They didn’t keep going on that long, cold, hard march from our ancestral homeland to “Indian Territory” just so that I could give up. They didn’t lay down on the trail to die and neither will I.”