Results for: bisexual
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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: Insurance Companies Really Have to Cover Your Birth Control Now and More News Stories
Governor Cuomo issues emergency measures for nail salons, the Obama administration clarifies what birth control is covered under the Affordable Care Act, a trans woman is suing Barnes & Noble and more news stories!
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Daily Fix: Alabama Wants You to Think of the Children and More News Stories
Birth justice, the passing of Marcia Diehl, a comprehensive LGBTQ bill of rights, the violence against Martese Johnson, St. Patrick’s Day parades and more!
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Daily Fix: This Straight Couple Will Divorce If That’s What it Takes to Save Marriage and More News Stories
Eric Casebolt of McKinney is resigning, Apple’s new period-inclusive HealthKit, India has its first lesbian couple in a commercial, abortion access restrictions being upheld in Texas, and more!
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Amnesty International’s Policy Calling for Decriminalization of Sex Work is a Move in the Right Direction
Amnesty International’s Board has put together a draft policy on sex work that could lift up and protect some of the most vulnerable and marginalized folks around the world – and feminists and human rights advocates alike could learn a lot from it. The only problem is that they’re too busy speaking over the sex workers and researchers who emphatically support the proposal to really do so.
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UK Home Office Says Aderonke Apata Can’t Be Gay Because She Has Children, Duh
“By ignoring the complexities of coming out both those who identify as bisexuals and lesbians with mixed dating histories like Ms. Apata are seen as demonstrating the idea that people can choose their identities with relative ease, and therefore the threat they face is technically self-inflicted.”
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It’s All The Rage: Arkansas Joins Indiana In The Abyss Of “Religious Freedom” Bills
Arkansas and Indiana legislatures both passed revised versions of their “religious freedom” bills this afternoon. They’re still terrible.
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Rebel Girls: 22 Badass Black Women Who Are Leading Movements, Changing the World, Generally Awesome
Too often, paradigm shifts in the feminist movement are posited as if they come from the past.
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Daily Fix: It’s Been 30 Years Since the MOVE Bombing and Other News Stories
Stories on the status of incarcerated trans women, Palestinian statehood, Jeb Bush, blood donation guidelines, crisis pregnancy centers being glitter-bombed, and more!
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Daily Fix: So Many Made-Up Studies on LGBT People and More News
Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress at graduation, Michael Brown should have been 19 this week, a young trans girl who’s banned from the correct bathroom, support for same-sex marriage at an all-time high, and more!
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Queer Histories Matter: How Ancient History Played a Starring Role in the Marriage Equality Case
“Queer histories matter not only for our own sense of identity and pride, but because they impact our legal realities, too.”
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Daily Fix: What the Heck is Happening in Texas and More News
Many upsetting Texas bills, Dorian Johnson’s arrest, a chapter of the Satanic Temple in MIssouri exercising its religious freedom, the first-ever LGBTQ Leaders of Color White House Summit, updates on presidential candidates across the board, and more!
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Daily Fix: Everyone’s Talking About #TalkPay and More News Stories
Bernie Sanders, long-serving independent, is running for President as a Democrat, what the #talkpay hashtag is all about, May Day protests around the world and more news!
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National LGBTQ Task Force Has A New Name — Will It Have More Inclusive Programs to Match?
It would have been powerful to see the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, now the National LGBTQ Task Force, get ahead of the political curve with its naming and mission. But what it does next matters more than its acronym.
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Daily Fix: Frat Lobbies Are Why We Can’t Have Nice Things and Other News Stories
The death of trans teen activist Blake Brockington, good legislative news for same-sex parents in Maryland, Roy Moore says something regrettable, Ellen Pao takes sexism in venture capitalism to court, and more!
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BLACKOUT: 11 Queer Black-Owned Business/Organizations You Can Support Today
Plus a list of queer authors and artists of color, and information about hundreds of ways to support BLACKOUT.
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Incarcerated Trans Woman Brings Lawsuit Against New York State After Her Rape in Prison
This case has already been successful in winning a platform for trans voices to raise public awareness about the contradictions and dangers of the prison system.
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White House Will Talk About Bisexual Issues For The First Time Ever
Oftentimes it’s a challenge for bisexuals to simply have their identities perceived as valid, and our government’s acknowledgement that we are a real community with unique challenges is a huge step towards eradicating that misconception.
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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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Injustice in the Justice System: Two Lawsuits Expose Struggle for Incarcerated LGBTs
These cases could create radical shifts for the experience of incarcerated LGBT people and they raise important questions about what a justice system better equipped to incarcerate LGBT people might mean for our communities.