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Reaching Out for My Queer Muslim Community to Hold Me After Christchurch

In times like these, when people don’t understand us and decide that this means we shouldn’t live at all, we need to connect with the people that do understand, even if just a little bit, even if peripherally.

By Creatrix Tiara| March 16, 2019 | 33 Comments
News + Politics

Four Black Queer Writers in Conversation About Jussie Smollett and Holding Up Space for Each Other

This piece was co-written by Natalie, Reneice, Alexis, and Carmen. We’re four of the black members of The Speakeasy, Autostraddle’s collective for its writers of color.

By The Speakeasy| February 26, 2019 | 20 Comments
News + Politics

Empire’s Jussie Smollett Beaten in Racist, Homophobic Attack by Trump Supporters

An attack on a black gay celebrity like Jussie Smollet is also a message sent to his black and gay fans. So today, for all our queer fam out there, but especially for my black queer family, feel the love and strength of our community. Our kinship is a gift. Please, fortify yourself in that gift today.

By Carmen Phillips| January 29, 2019 | 29 Comments
News + Politics

Black Lesbians Targeted by Violent Homophobes in Dallas and NYC

Two Black lesbian friends, who were on their way to Dallas Pride, suffered stab wounds from a homophobic attack earlier this month and a Black lesbian couple were verbally assaulted on the train in New York.

By Yvonne| September 27, 2017 | 5 Comments
News + Politics

Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime Soars in the UK

One in five lesbians and one in six bisexual women have experienced a hate crime in the last twelve months.

By Heather Davidson| September 7, 2017 | 5 Comments
Politics + Activism

Fuck You, Nazis: Some Links

On the White Supremacist “rally” in Charlottesville

By Riese| August 13, 2017 | 12 Comments
News + Politics

Homophobic Man Beats Lesbian Unconscious On Brooklyn-Bound Q Train

The 27-year-old attacker called his victims ‘dykes’ and ‘faggots’ before attacking them.

By Riese| May 31, 2017 | 29 Comments
Politics + Activism

Five Lesbians Viciously Beaten by 15 Men, Say Portsmouth Police Let Attackers Ride Off in Taxis

One woman had her jaw broken and seven teeth knocked out, another a dislocated shoulder and bruised kidney, two left with black eyes — and, the victims of this homophobic attack tell the press, police have been handling the case “completely wrong.”

By Riese| April 25, 2017 | 25 Comments
News + Politics

Homophobic Husband Murders Estranged Wife and Her Girlfriend, Both Middle School Educators

51-year-old Lisa Dawn Fuillerat and 39-year-old Samara Routenberg were murdered last Friday by Lisa’s estranged husband, who “just couldn’t handle seeing the mother of his two children in a relationship with another woman after 28 years of marriage.” At the time of the murder, he was still on probation for attacking Samara in 2015.

By Riese| March 1, 2017 | 33 Comments
First Person

Trump Won, So I Finally Got Out of Bed

When the election results came in, it had already been a month since I gave up on trying to fix my own mental health issues. And so it turned out that the worst day of our generation collided with my own personal low.

By Cecelia| November 30, 2016 | 27 Comments
News + Politics

Missouri Bisexual Woman and Her Mother Murdered By Homophobe In Suspected Hate Crime

Witnesses told police Steven Endsley had an “ongoing disagreement” with Danielle Smith about her sexual orientation.

By Yvonne| September 13, 2016 | 14 Comments
Straddleverse

“Escúchame For Orlando” Lets LGBTQ Latinxs Share Their Voice On The Pulse Shooting

Escúchame for Orlando is “a place for queer Latinxs to come together and let our voices be heard about the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. This is an anonymous space because whether you’re out to the whole world, or just to yourself, you deserve to be heard.”

By Mey| June 15, 2016 | 5 Comments
First Person

Not Quite There Yet: Safety and Progress In Light of the Pulse Shooting

“The morning after the horrific shooting, and the days that followed, I understood part of my father’s fear. Animosity towards LGBTQ people has not gone the way of black and white T.V. sets, phone booths, or travel by horse and carriage. It was and is very much alive.”

By Angelica Liz| June 15, 2016 | 28 Comments
News + Politics

Queer Latinxs Share Love, Rage, Sadness and Strength For Our Family Lost in Orlando

Here are just a few of the many, many LGBTQ Latinxs in our community who are speaking up and speaking out to make sure that queer Latinxs are not erased.

By Mey| June 15, 2016 | 32 Comments
Politics + Activism

Notes From A Queer Engineer: What’s the Most Effective Gun Control Strategy?

If we allow gun violence to continue blighting communities of color, we have failed. But if we enact gun control measures that aid the police state in criminalizing Black and brown bodies, we have also failed.

By Laura Mandanas| June 15, 2016 | 71 Comments
Daily Fix

What We Know About the Pulse Shooting in Orlando So Far

Links, updates, and further reading on the Pulse shooting, the aftermath, the victims, the gunman, gun control, politics, some resources and centering queer Latinx voices.

By Yvonne| June 14, 2016 | 21 Comments
Politics + Activism

These Are The Seven Women Who Were Killed In Orlando

Seven women of color were killed this weekend at Pulse in Orlando and these are their stories.

By Riese| June 14, 2016 | 27 Comments
News + Politics

Kourtney Yochum Becomes the 7th Trans Person Murdered This Year, We Find Ourselves Asking the Same Old Questions

Seven trans people have been killed this year, six trans people of color. That’s two every month, and we’re not even done with March yet.

By Mey| March 24, 2016 | 22 Comments
Daily Fix

Black High School Student Assaulted by School Cop, Bystander Who Filmed It Gets Arrested

Texas health investigators raided Planned Parenthoods across the state and obtained patient record information, a school district outside Chicago could lose up to $6 million in federal funding for not allowing a teen trans girl to use the correct locker room, Hillary Clinton will stop accepting money from private prison companies and more news stories.

By Yvonne| October 27, 2015 | 20 Comments
Daily Fix News + Politics

Daily Fix: House Passes Two Anti-Choice Bills, Really Really Wants to Defund Planned Parenthood and More News

Planned Parenthood created a new video series about consent, an infographic on the issues bisexuals face, a mother and daughter were assaulted in an anti-gay attack, Shadi Petosky, a trans woman, was detained by TSA at an Orlando airport and more news stories.

By Yvonne| September 22, 2015 | 27 Comments
News + Politics

Daily Fix: Senate Democrats Blocked a Republican Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood and More News

Six were stabbed, leaving one teen girl dead, at Jerusalem’s Pride parade; an arrest has been made in India Clarke’s murder; a teen lesbian couple was attacked at Six Flags New England and more news stories.

By Yvonne| August 4, 2015 | 5 Comments
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