How To Fight Back Against Book Bans
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
Laphonza Butler Will Replace Dianne Feinstein, Becoming America’s First Black Lesbian Senator
The appointment, which California Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed late Sunday night and will announce later today, is historic — though potentially short lived.
61 People Allegedly Associated with the Stop Cop City Movement Indicted on RICO Charges
The fight to Stop Cop City is a test case for whether domestic terrorism — and now RICO charges — can be used to stop activists and protesters from engaging in any kind of resistance, especially when it comes to resistance against the police state.
“We Don’t Want To Live in a Police State”: Stop Cop City Still Needs Your Help
Don’t live in Atlanta? Don’t live in the U.S.? If Cop City gets built, it will still effect you. Activists have been fighting the creation of this proposed police training ground since 2021, and they need your help.
Black Queer Communities Send O’Shae Sibley Home in Love, Resistance, and Vogue
Love has brought together so many Black queer communities over the last 10 days, sending our sibling home not in the violence of the last few minutes of his life — but in the light, movement, vogue, and resistance that defined him. Defines us.
Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Gay Wedding Website Designer in Another Blow to Equality
“Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent.
In Today’s Heartbreak, the Supreme Court Ended Affirmative Action as We Know It
I have been told that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson does not often use words like “let-them-eat-cake” in her legal writing, but she’s right and she absolutely should say it. Today is a day for being Big Mad.
Sarah McBride Seeks To Become First Trans Person in House of Representatives
Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride, the highest ranking trans elected official in the United States, has announced her candidacy for Congress.
Colorado Club Q Shooting Suspect Pleads Guilty to LGBTQ+ Mass Shooting
As part of a plea deal, Anderson Lee Aldrich will serve life in prison.
How a Far-Right Moms Group Is Threatening Queer Liberties in Schools
And what we can learn from them this Pride.
Also.Also.Also: Queen Latifah Becomes the First Woman Rapper To Be Given Kennedy Center Honors
It was L Word Day at the WGA Strike, so Ilene Chaiken announced that “Corporate Greed Killed Jenny.” Also, the 100 most significant political films of all time.
Gay at Work: Queer People and the Labor Movement
All these movements, whether for Black liberation, queer liberation, abortion rights, affordable housing, or labor, are intimately connected, and the struggle of queer labor organizers makes that abundantly clear.
‘Be the Change’ Creates Network of Care in Tennessee Prisons
Be the Change offers programs inside like support groups for trans women, addiction and recovery support, and those facing lengthy or lifetime sentences.
Brittney Griner Was Accosted at an Airport, the WNBA and Phoenix Mercury Failed To Protect Her
How did the Mercury and the WNBA allow this to happen? Because, given the media attention that’s been swirling around Griner since her return home, this was completely predictable.
NYPD Accidentally Paints ACAB on Their Pride Cop Cars
Some people think this is an “innocent” “mistake” but I think it is a stroke of subversive artistic genius.
Lawmaker Zooey Zephyr Proposes to Girlfriend at Queer Prom, Calls It “A Love That Feels Like Home”
Zooey Zephyr and Erin Reed’s brilliant, determined, resolute love story is proof that love is a revolution.
New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why
Most Americans support bans on gender-affirming medical care for trans youth and participation in sports for trans women — an agenda heartily endorsed by the media they consume.
Hayley Kiyoko Was Told She Couldn’t Bring Drag Queens Onstage for Nashville Performance
They joined her anyway, but Kiyoko’s reaction to anti-drag laws still holds true: “This is so f*cked.”
The Yeses that Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans
Building power across the lines of cis and trans teaches me that there are many people who will fight alongside trans people to win a better world.