LGBTQ Activism

When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game

When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game When It Comes to Being Gay-Friendly, Women’s Sports Are Ahead of the Game

Women’s leagues have become much safer spaces for queerness, while men’s sports are still trapped in a culture of repression.

Nov 20, 2019 / Payal Dhar

Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown

Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown Surviving Indonesia’s Antigay Clampdown

They met, fell in love, and were nearly torn apart in a country where LGBTQ people are increasingly persecuted.

Nov 19, 2019 / Feature / Nicole Einbinder and Gabriela Bhaskar

‘The Inheritance’ Takes E.M. Forster Out of the Closet

‘The Inheritance’ Takes E.M. Forster Out of the Closet ‘The Inheritance’ Takes E.M. Forster Out of the Closet

Bringing Howards End into today’s gay Manhattan, playwright Matthew Lopez shows that “Only Connect” is still a radical message.

Nov 12, 2019 / Feature / Darryl Pinckney

Duke Energy Coal Plant

Trump Throws More Red Meat to Nativists, Polluters, and Evangelicals Trump Throws More Red Meat to Nativists, Polluters, and Evangelicals

He’s shoring up his bigoted base for 2020, but he’s also courting the broader GOP coalition of big business and the Christian right.

Nov 5, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky

Travis Alabanza

Dismantling Transphobia at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Dismantling Transphobia at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Three performances at the world’s biggest arts festival react to transphobic rhetoric in the UK.

Aug 22, 2019 / Elliot Ross

Marc Lambert Lamba

‘We Call That Love’: Marc Lambert Lamba Defended Cameroon’s LGBT Community ‘We Call That Love’: Marc Lambert Lamba Defended Cameroon’s LGBT Community

Lambert, who died on August 4, was a pioneering LGBT activist who was there to help—even after foreign support dried up.

Aug 12, 2019 / Obituary / Robbie Corey-Boulet

Puerto Rico Protests

Feminists and LGBTQ Activists Are Leading the Insurrection in Puerto Rico Feminists and LGBTQ Activists Are Leading the Insurrection in Puerto Rico

These and other grassroots groups are pushing the fight against corruption and austerity.

Aug 2, 2019 / Ed Morales

Trans women protest

Eleven Black Trans Women Have Been Murdered This Year. It’s Time for Another Uprising. Eleven Black Trans Women Have Been Murdered This Year. It’s Time for Another Uprising.

A recent survey of black communities in America found that for transgender people, the threat of violence is the biggest concern.

Jul 3, 2019 / Alicia Garza

How Stonewall Veteran Jay Toole’s Life Has Changed Since the Riots—and How It Hasn’t

How Stonewall Veteran Jay Toole’s Life Has Changed Since the Riots—and How It Hasn’t How Stonewall Veteran Jay Toole’s Life Has Changed Since the Riots—and How It Hasn’t

Toole sees Stonewall as a turning point for the LGBTQ movement, but not for everyone in it.

Jul 2, 2019 / Feature / Naomi Gordon-Loebl

Bamby Salcedo

There Can Be No Queer Liberation Without Trans Liberation There Can Be No Queer Liberation Without Trans Liberation

For 50 years, Trans people have been pushed and shoved to the side of the LGBTQ movement. That ends now.

Jul 2, 2019 / Bamby Salcedo

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