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Politics + Activism
Why Is YouTube Demonetizing LGBTQ Videos?
Queer content creators are losing page views and revenue over YouTube’s inexplicable decision to hide LGBTQ and mental health videos, while also demonetizing them.
Trans Model Munroe Bergdorf Is Now the Face of Illamasqua, Actual Champions of Diversity
Bergdorf was recently fired by L’Oreal over a Facebook post about white supremacy.
Black LGBT Women Represent on The Root’s 100 Most Influential People List
When I look at this list, I’m fortified knowing that increasingly we are not being asked to choose between our blackness and our queerness as the movement moves forward. We are no longer being asked to do the work, but keep our faces in the shadows.
Scout Schultz Is the 21st Trans Person Murdered in 2017
The 21-year-old was shot by police on the campus of Georgia Tech.
Refund Equality Act Aims to Recover Same-Sex Couples’ Tax Benefits Denied by DOMA
This legislation would ensure that legally-married same-sex couples – who, until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 Windsor decision, were barred from filing federal taxes jointly – are permitted to file amended tax returns back to the date of their marriage.
Why I’m Going To Run for Office
“I’m done putting my faith in well-meaning surrogates. That’s not enough now, and it never really was.”
Edith Windsor, Lesbian Trailblazer Who Changed Your Life, Has Died
Gay rights pioneer Edith Windsor died today in Manhattan. She was 88 years old.
PHOTOESSAY: We’re Fighting for DACA, But We Want More
Announcing the end of DACA is a political statement rooted in racism and bigotry. While DACA is a flawed program, it represented a step in the right direction. Now it represents a vault of information that can be used against its recipients by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime Soars in the UK
One in five lesbians and one in six bisexual women have experienced a hate crime in the last twelve months.
LGBT Immigrants Brace Themselves for DACA’s Devastating End
“We’ll continue resisting because as LGBTQ folks, as immigrant folks, we have been resisting, since the day we have decided to live authentically and unafraid and unapologetically.”
Photoessay: Electric Dirt and Radical Community with Queer Appalachia
Queer Appalachia celebrated the release of Electric Dirt: A Celebration of Queer Voices and Identities from Appalachia and the South while raising funds for Southerners on New Ground and oh, having a Queer Granny Witch party!
38 Lesbian and Bisexual Women From History Who Did That Thing First
What do the first Chinese-American filmmaker, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the first woman to wear man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon all have in common? They had romantic feelings about other women, just like you!
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?
The Nashville Statement: Homophobic Evangelicals Continue Delusional Conviction of Their Own Victimhood
It’s nothing new, but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous.
F*cking Hell, Trump Just Signed a Memo Enacting Trans Military Ban
Today Trump signed an official directive that prohibits transgender people from joining the military, and additionally gives Defense Secretary Mattis a great deal of latitude in terms of deciding the fate of transgender people already enlisted.
26 Triumphantly ’90s Lesbian Book Covers
What a colorful decade for us all!
18 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Made Really Great Art For You
These are the ladies who made kickass sculptures, movies, music, children’s books, regular grown-up-books and, of course, wrote fabulous, sick, neurotic, tortured love poems to one another.
Queer Activists are Taking Down Racist Symbols in the South
“While there have been no arrests yet of the white supremacists who mercilessly beat a counter-protester in Charlottesville, there have already been at least three arrests for the removal of the Confederate monument in Durham, and two of them are queer activists of color.”
On The Upside, Texas’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill is Dead, So
During a never-ending cycle of negative news on our feeds, a failed discriminatory anti-trans bill is definitely something to celebrate.