Pride Is Still a Protest
Pride this year will take place during the eighth month of an ongoing genocide.
Walkouts, Sit-Ins, and Merry Outlaws: A History of Student Protests, 1924-2024
We’re now over seven months into Israel’s escalated attacks on Gaza and a month into the nationwide campus protest movement against the genocide. Let’s take a look back at the history of student activism throughout the past century.
ACT UP NY Calls on GLAAD To Oppose Genocide, Drop the ADL
On May 11, GLAAD hosted its annual awards ceremony, celebrating queer and trans media and celebrities. But outside the doors of the venue was where the real queer activism took place, an action organized by ACT UP NY taking shape.
Inside Columbia’s Encampments for Palestine, Students Know Exactly What They’re Fighting For
This is possibly the most momentum the pro-Palestine movement in the United States has gained in decades, and the movement is being led by teenagers who cared not about suspension or arrest, but a cause larger than them.
How To Get Mutual Aid and Bail Funds into the Hands of Student Protestors Now
What follows below is a living document, it is purposefully incomplete because the work is not done. We need everyone on deck. Go out there and tell me what you find, and I will update it accordingly. Here is a list of over 60 protests and encampments to start.
Florida’s Latest Ruling Against “Don’t Say Gay” Law Isn’t Enough
While the ruling does help make working in schools for teachers and going to school for students just slightly easier, the material realities for trans people in Florida continue to deteriorate as a result of these laws.
Reneé Rapp Calls for “Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza” From GLAAD Awards Stage
What most struck me about Reneé Rapp’s willingness to say the words “ceasefire in Gaza” from the GLAAD stage is how rare it is, even now, to see eventhat level of advocacy at all.
Nothing the Medical Examiner Can Report Will Change Nex Benedict’s Cause of Death
It feels safe to say that Nex died as a direct result of trauma from the physical altercation at the school. Maybe not just the one, maybe so many more. Maybe years of bullying, of ostracization, of feeling unwelcome and out of place at the school he was required to attend every day.
Where Is the Outrage About Palestinian Survivors of Sexual Violence?
Sexual violence towards Palestinians is rampant, systemic, and underreported, and what makes it particularly appalling is how little attention it receives and the skepticism with which it is treated abroad.
Alabama’s Anti-IVF Ruling Quotes God To Conclude Embryos Are People and Queer Parents Are F*cked
Alabama’s Supreme Court rules that embryos are people because God said so, and the implications for prospective queer parents in the state are dire.
Cecilia Gentili Showed What It Means To Care About Sex Workers, Immigrants, and Trans People
She saw organizing and her work within her communities not as something she had to do but as something she needed and wanted to do.
Brianna Ghey’s Murderers Have Received Life Sentences — Is That Justice?
The truest form of justice is prevention.
The Queer Feminist Case for Palestine
When I say queer, I mean hostile to the military industrial complex that generates profit by manufacturing weapons designed to kill people.
Los Angeles Gay Bar The Abbey Faces an Overdue Reckoning
In a detailed report from The 19th, over 70 people describe being drugged at The Abbey — including many queer women.
How Bluestockings Bookstore Is Fighting To Keep Serving Queer, Trans, and Houseless Communities
I wish this were just a piece on how a longstanding queer bookstore and refuge is finding ways to continue practicing care and love for their community. Unfortunately, this is also a story of gentrification and white supremacist capitalism not caring about what’s right and medically safe.
This Bookstore Is Giving Banned Books Back to the Florida Community They Were Removed From
A school district in Florida expunged thousands of LGBTQ and BIPOC kids books. This radical anarchist bookstore is giving them back.
The Most Important Movie of the Year Is a Documentary From 1976
The Memory of Justice draws parallels between the Holocaust and the more recent horrors of the French occupation of Algeria and the American occupation of Vietnam.
“Queer People Are No Friends to Israeli Apartheid”: LGBTQ+ Artists Sign Open Letter for Palestine
The letter also crucially includes a commitment to a cultural boycott of Israel.
Florida Teachers Fight Anti-LGBTQ Policies As the State Punishes Schools That Dare To Resist
All of DeSantis’ efforts to silence and oppressively legislate students and educators in the state are connected and should be confronted simultaneously.
Susan Sarandon, Melissa Barrera, and the Troubling Pattern of Punishment for Advocating for Palestine
More news surfaces about the timeline of Melissa Barrera’s removal from Scream, and Susan Sarandon has issued an apology for her wording. Both continue to stand with Palestine.