Even if New Heart Community Church loses its membership in the Southern Baptist Convention, this pastor’s personal shift and his congregation’s openness demonstrate a ripple of change that has reached even very conservative corners of society.
June hath now been declared Autostraddle Pride Month, and y’all will be celebrating together at meet-ups across the globe until the very last parade has left a trail of frisbees and flyers in your neighborhood. But first, we need you to organize one!
THINK OF HOW GOOD IT’LL FEEL TO RETURN ALL THE LIBRARY BOOKS.
“I am a person with restricted growth (or little person or person with dwarfism), and I am queer… I did not come out as queer until I was in my 30s. People asked me why it took so long… But the deeper answer is that accepting my disabled identity was necessary before I could accept my queer one, and for me this has been a long, hard fought struggle.”
It’s TIME to recognize super cool artists and activists, fight the wrongful imprisonment of transgender youth, and watch some neat documentaries.
Unless you have the memory of an elephant and/or for some reason Don’t Like Journals (methinks you might be on the wrong website) then you’re gonna want to be recording your adventures as you learn and develop as a tarot reader.
You’ve got to have a layer strategy. I’ve styled a couple outfits that proactively anticipate both torrential downpours and super sunny skies.
42% of Americans believe that gay people are born rather than made.
This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening and now it’s time to read ALL OF THEM.
“My friends who hadn’t left town took me to new restaurants and bars they had found during their fledgling adulthood. Strangers lived in what had been my home. The girl I loved in May wasn’t speaking to me. I had a wonderful time, but I learned the city wasn’t mine anymore.”
Protect your eyes, jazz up an old pair of glasses AND gain some adorable street cred with this fun and easy project!
“Becoming Me” is a wonderful new webcomic featuring the adventures of a young Chilean trans woman named Mia. If you’re looking for more trans fiction in your life, this is a great place to find it.
Let us celebrate the life and legacy of a civil rights heroine, Yuri Kochiyama.
“After a lifetime of having to conform to an image of femininity that weighed on me like a suit of armor, I cannot express how empowering it felt to be embraced and celebrated for my authentic self.”
We started wondering what other things everyone would just stop worrying about altogether if they were more reminiscent of hairbows and apple pies.
In spite of the number of people who use menstrual hygiene products, researchers in the United States aren’t doing very much to look into the safety of our products.
What even is cooking? How does it work? You heat something, and then what? Nope, too hard. Really the only food I feel confident about being able to pull together and consume is some sort of thing I can put into a bowl and mindlessly dip chips into.
The Casual Sex Project, illegal sex toys, talking about masturbation, why we kiss and more.
President Obama is puttin’ his rainbow mardi gras beads on, Rachel Jeantel has a diploma (bitches!), and also: A BEAR IN A HAMMOCK. IMPORTANT.
In which I relearn a lesson about technology I had forgotten.