Results for: gay marriage
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Talking with Reina Gossett and Grace Dunham About Everyday Activism and Why Empathy is Everything
I had heard about Reina Gossett and Grace Dunham’s close relationship, and how it was informing some incredible work together, so I sought them out to find out more — over the course of our afternoon together in NYC, our conversation covered everything from the damages of biological essentialism to the radical power of empathy to how important it is to feel sexy sometimes.
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Michigan Same-Sex Couples Get a Court Win, But State Legislature Wants to Leave Trans People Behind
Republicans are trying to exclude trans protections in a civil rights amendment, while a federal judge has struck down a state law banning domestic partner benefits.
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Immigrant Trans Women Can Now Be Detained in Women’s Facilities, But the Fight Isn’t Over Yet
U.S. Immigration officials announced they’ll allow detainees to be housed in facilities that match their gender identity. While this announcement sounds good, many think it will have minimal effect on the lives of actual trans detainees.
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Daily Fix: Officer Pepper Sprayed Black Lives Matter Activists After Their National Conference and More News Stories
KC Haggard is the 11th trans woman to be murdered this year, a San Francisco high school will be the first to offer a LGBT history class, a 37-year-old Cleveland woman was found dead in a jail cell and more news.
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Daily Fix: Mansur Ball-Bey Killed by St. Louis PD on Anniversary of Kajieme Powell’s Death and More News
Another death of a young black man at the hands of police in St Louis, the first ever openly trans White House staffer, why marriage licenses still aren’t being issued in a county in Kentucky after the Supreme Court decision, an attempt to ban LGBT-friendly children’s books in Venice, and more.
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Daily Fix: Indiana’s In a Hurry to Rebrand and More News Stories
A trans woman wins her lawsuit against her former discriminatory employer, a Wiccan priestess leads the Iowa legislature in prayer, law enforcement has killed at least 5,600 people since 2000 and more news stories!
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Good Riddance, DOMA: Medicare and Social Security Now Recognize Trans Spouses and Same-Sex Marriages
Two important decisions will give same-sex couples and married trans people access to benefits through their spouse, regardless of their state of residence.
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Two Trans Women Shot in Detroit, Local Media Misgenders and Misrepresents Them
Two trans women were shot in the Palmer Park Neighborhood of Detroit this week. The local Detroit media repeatedly misgendered them and erroneously implied that they may have been sex workers.
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2015’s Anti-LGBT Law Proposals Are Already Stacking Up
Just one month into the new year, lawmakers across the country are introducing bills to erode LGBT rights any way they can.
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Surviving or Thriving: How Economic (In)Justice Matters for LGBT People
Sometimes, it can be hard to parse out exactly why queer and trans people have such a hard time getting by while the headlines would suggest we are advancing by leaps and bounds. On January 23rd and 24th, queer and trans people converged in New York City for the Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies Conference to explore how the struggle for queer and trans justice and liberation is inextricably linked to struggles for economic, racial, immigrant, disability and reproductive justice.
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New Report Finally Gives Crucial Numbers on Economic Disparities Hurting LGBT Women
With MAP’s report, we have clear, comprehensive data that solidifies the seriousness of the problem and provides a new resource for battling it.
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State of the Struggle: First Come LGBT Legal Protections, Then Comes Marriage
The new Momentum Report from the Movement Advancement Project proves that gay marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. How is the LGBT community doing when it comes to everything else?
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Having Your Wedding Cupcake & Eating It Too: Radical Queer & Progressive LGBT Politics Working Together
The new executive director of Garden State Equality, Andy Bowen, and I chat about the influence of queer radicalism on LGBT progressive organizations and movements.
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What’s Happening For CA’s Trans Students? Unpacking the Clusterf*ck Of AB 1266
Search the hashtag #AB1266 on Twitter, and you’ll see what I mean by clusterfuck. It’s a mixture of conservatives, LGBT groups, names of California counties, statistics, and conflicting reports of what’s happened, and what’s next.
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Denmark’s New Law Makes Legal Gender Recognition A Lot Easier
The law, which allows trans folks to legally change their gender without any medical or surgical requirements, is the first of its kind in Europe and could hopefully set new precedents in the region.
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Queers for Economic Justice Closes Its Doors Thanks to Lack of Economic Justice
“QEJ will always be a philosophy. If you are a queer, you can be for economic justice. …You don’t have to have a 501(c)(3).”
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Queer View Mirror: Five Important News Topics We Talked About in 2013
Brush up on this year’s biggest news so you can impress that cute girl at your New Year’s Eve party.
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“It Was Personal”: Why I Don’t Take Part in the Trans Day of Remembrance
“There are a thousand ways to die from being trans. But they’re only included if they can be made as sensationalist as possible. Never mind that all these things kill you just the same.”
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Joy and Rage: Why the Fight for Queer Equality Doesn’t End with Marriage
The struggles of queer and trans* people are no less important than the struggles of gay people, and if they move forward without us, they are not moving forward at all.
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New York Can Pass Same-Sex Marriage But Not Trans* Protections: How GENDA Died
“After DOMA, one would think this would be the best time for activists to shine a light on other issues, such as hate crimes against LGBT people. But that hasn’t proven to be the case, at least in New York.”