Once again, 24-hour news networks let us down by giving a stage to bigots and showing that the only things they know about trans* people are outdated transphobic stereotypes.
The American Bar Association urges for legislative action to limit the availability and effectiveness of the “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses in any criminal trial.
Russia just passed draconian anti-gay legislation. They’re also about to host the biggest international event in history. We look at the history of international responses to controversial Olympic hosts and ask — what now?
As Moral Monday grows, their initial impetus—the universality of the struggle for justice—remains steadfast. As NC NAACP President Rev. William Barber chants (and everyone repeats) at the demonstrations, “Forward Together, Not One Step Back.”
A country with weed is a country full of friends indeed.
In a major victory for transgender youth, California passes law giving trans* students equal protection, opportunities and access in public schools.
“Many police practices may be useful for fighting crime — preventive detention or coerced confessions, for example — but because they are unconstitutional they cannot be used, no matter how effective.”
Thirty years later the “Gay Liberation Front Manifesto” goals remain revolutionary. The same can be said about “Sexo y Revolución.”
“Most of us just didn’t know. We didn’t realize that we were guaranteed these rights, so we just went along with it.”
President Obama has released the names of sixteen recipients to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on its 50th anniversary.
Immigration officers found that the nine had “credible fear of persecution or torture in their birth country” of Mexico, and therefore could not be removed from the US.
In the most recent sign that the ex-gay movement is dying, an attempted “Ex-Gay Pride Month” was a massive flop after only 10 people showed up in Washington, DC.
It’s been a big summer for South and Southeast Asia when it comes to LGBT/queer news. The most important aspect of this news, however, is that it was reported at all.
It has become increasingly difficult to defend my home state with our governor saying dumb things left and right, like his brief on marriage equality. Are you ready for a headdesk the size of a Jersey hairdo?
Reactionary conservatism stands in the way of the Southeast Asian nation’s first state-based transgender welfare committee, but change could still happen with its first out trans political appointee.
A Philadelphia judge rules that the same-sex widow of a lawyer, is entitled to her benefits plan after a legal battle with her spouse’s family.
Every state needs a Wendy Davis. Every person has a story.
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Francis remarked in Italian. “We shouldn’t marginalize people for this. They must be integrated into society.”
Flawed attempts to make the internet a safe space could be compromising actual safe spaces with an indiscriminate default-on porn filter.
“A phrase that often arises in this movement is “ni de aqui, ni de alla,” (neither from here nor there), and it speaks to the ability we seek as queer immigrants to define home as we choose, whether in a geographic sense, within our communities, or a gendered sense, within our bodies.”