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Happy National Coming Out Day!!!!! You’re NOT STRAIGHT and that’s the thing I love most about you tbqfh. I’m proud to know you, even just this little bit. I’m serious! I’m excited to be here with you right now. Thanks for being yourself all over the place, even if you’re not out, even if it isn’t easy (ESPECIALLY WHEN IT ISN’T EASY OK), and even if you don’t always know how, because me either.
I really do love you.
Queer as in F*ck You
Nathalie Huerta on Founding The Queer Gym and What Ayahuasca Taught Her.
Samira Wiley Said She “Cried A Lot” After One Of Her Former “OITNB” Costars Outed Her.
For LGBTQ Youth, #MeToo Is Not a Heteronormative Issue.
Amandla Stenberg on Sexual Assault and Coping With Trauma.
Fighting for LGBTQ Rights In a Country Where Lesbians Are Caned.
Tokyo bans LGBT discrimination ahead of 2020 Olympics.
Record Number of U.S. Cities Earn Perfect Scores for LGBTQ Equality.
Saw This, Thought of You
A Year of #MeToo Exhausted Women—And Renewed Our Collective Hope.
Laverne Cox and Rosario Dawson Get Real About Intersectional Feminism.
The All-Women Team of Scientists That Trekked to the Heart of Kilauea Volcano’s Eruption.
Huck #67 is an all-woman documentary photo special and it’s out now, so.
New Pet Sematary trailer YOU BIG SCAREDY CATS.
Political Snacks
Supreme Court Ruling Suppresses Native American Votes Ahead of Crucial Midterm Election.
oooh I haven’t listened to Nancy podcast in awhile, and today seems like the perfect occasion to do so ✨??? I need more Samira Wiley interviews in my life!
Your intro paragraphs always bring me so much joy. Thank you!!
“Record Number of U.S. Cities Earn Perfect Scores for LGBTQ Equality” guess it’s time for a new scale, huh
That and asking more lgbtq poc of color for their input, as some places are friendly if you are white and lgbtq+, but not really towards those who are poc. Like Hamburger Mary in Long Beach for example, which has a bit of a racism issue.
No kidding. It’s a weird metric for scoring cities – there’s a set of factors that add up to 100, and then there’s also some bonus points (like for gender-neutral single person restrooms). So the maximum score is actually 120, but they cap scores at 100 and call 100 a perfect score, even if (by their own metric) cities could do better.
Wow Malaysia