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Here’s What 7 Youth Activists Want To See For Our Green New World
We interviewed seven youth activists at the first-ever United Nations Youth Climate Summit about their most optimistic visions for the future. This is what they have to say.
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Bisexual Adventist and Former Pastor Alicia Johnston Contemplates Ministry After Coming Out
Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Alicia Johnston knew she would lose leadership of her congregation when she came out as bisexual, but did it anyway. She talked with Autostraddle about her hopes to the future, and how she wants to continue ministering to queer people of faith.
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Be The Change: We Are Our Own Legacy
The moral of this story is that despite this column very much aligning with the rise of the Trump administration, it’s never been about Trump.
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Be The Change: Music For the Revolution
How to use music to make your activist action 100% better! Plus some tips you maybe definitely haven’t thought of!
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Holigay Gift Guide: For Queer Radicals, Trans Revolutionaries, and Menacing Lesbians
The age-old challenge: what to get for your rad, free-thinking, take-no-BS, burn down the cisheteropatriarchy, revolutionary friend or loved one? Capitalism sucks. These gifts don’t!
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Be The Change: A Simple Guide to Lobbying Your Elected Officials Like a Pro
A step-by-step guide to lobbying your elected officials. Ready your power suit!
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A Record Number of Women and LGBTQ Candidates Win Midterm Races as Democrats Take Back the House
Women and LGBTQ people made history Tuesday and Donald Trump will finally face some checks and oversight in Congress.
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15 Years Later, Has PREA Protected LGBTQ Prisoners Against Sexual Assault?
A disproportionate number of prisoners identify as LGBTQI. On the 15th anniversary of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, we look at what the bill has done to protect them — and what challenges remain.
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Here’s Why Trump-Era Republicans Are Obsessed with Trying to Outlaw Trans People
In a post “love-wins” America, we’ve circled back to the underlying legal thinking of the 1950s. In the late 2010s and especially under Trump, gender and gender conformity are back under the legal microscope in a move that targets the gender nonconformity fundamental to aspects of gay identity for many, and also increasingly and dangerously, trans people.
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Missouri Bisexual Woman and Her Mother Murdered By Homophobe In Suspected Hate Crime
Witnesses told police Steven Endsley had an “ongoing disagreement” with Danielle Smith about her sexual orientation.
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Bisexual Teens Speak Out In the #ILoveBiSelf Twitter Chat Tonight! At 7 ET
Let’s celebrate Celebrate Bisexuality Day aka Bi Visibility Day aka the best day of the year with some self love, encouragement and brilliance from these youth.
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Bisexual Governor Kate Brown Talks Openly About Surviving Domestic Violence, Shuts Down Opponent’s Ignorance
Kate Brown, Oregon’s current governor, has already made a mark in history; she’s one of the few openly bisexual women in public office in the US. This week, she came out as a survivor of domestic violence during a debate with her Republican opponent, Dr. Bud Pierce.
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“The Alternative Is Awful”: Sexual Justice Pioneer Carol Queen on Why Sexual Justice Needs to Evolve
“Sexual justice has to adapt. The alternative is awful.”
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2018 Midterm Voting Guide: LGBTQ Candidates, Ballot Measures and More
It’s a scary time to be a minority in this country, but the 2018 Midterms offer a little bit of light in the darkness. According to the Victory Fund, this is the first election in the history of the U.S. where LGBTQ people are running for office in all 50 states. They join the record number of women running for office.
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We Won Some Things: 4 LGBTQ Women Made History in Their Primary Elections This Week
We’re coming for you, Trump.
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What You Need to Know About Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Homophobic Presidential Frontrunner
Here’s why Jair Bolsonaro is so dangerous to LGBTQ Brazilians, what’s been happening with the Brazilian presidential race the past few months and how Bolsonaro’s potential win could affect not just Brazil but the entire world.
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The Riot Isn’t Over: 6 Movements and Organizations that Map Militancy in LGBT History
Regardless of whether you ultimately see the use of militant force as an admirable tactic, the truth is that any progress the queer community has made is at least in part to all those queers who refused to play by the rules, the queers who behaved badly, the queers who believed that unjust laws must be broken as a method of survival.
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Lena Waithe, Janet Mock, Emma Gonzalez and More of Your Faves Headline Time’s 2018 Most Influential People List
We’re going to ignore the straight cis white dudes on Time’s list and focus on what really matters.
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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.
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GLAAD Survey Finds Straight People Fine with “Equal Rights” in 2018, Not So Much Actual LGBT People
The statistics on acceptance of LGBT people were generally staying the same or improving, until last year — when, as GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis puts it, “the acceptance pendulum abruptly stopped and swung in the opposite direction.”