One Year Later, The Same, Different World
One year ago, at the press conference for World Pride in New York City, “POSE” star Indya Moore spoke about their friend Layleen Polanco,...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
The Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ workers are protected under federal employment discrimination law. This is huge. In another world we’d be celebrating this...
We Must Do More Than March
This past Sunday in Philadephia, hundreds of people attended the Queer March for Black Lives. They were led by those holding a banner with...
What’s Next in the Struggle to End Discrimination Against LGBTQ People
It is, finally, illegal to fire or refuse to hire someone because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, or transgender, thanks to a June...
Two Out Gay Candidates Slated to Win Congressional Seats
Weeks of protests nationwide since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis have been a crash course for America on structural racism and its...
Cliff Notes On LGBT History
With all that’s going on in the world, hopefully you haven’t forgotten that it’s Pride month. Not sure if it resonates as much considering...
Black Trans Lives Matter
This week has been a difficult one for Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community, as we lost another Black trans woman, Dominique Rem’mie Fells. We shouldn’t have...
The real world impact of the Supreme Court ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 15 that gay and transgender employees are protected against workplace discrimination under Title VII of the 1964...
On Black Trans lives, JK Rowling and making the right choice.
Right now, we may be living through the most impactful time for trans and nonbinary people, and the choices we make now may shape...
The power of protest
As someone who participated in the Stonewall riots back in June 1969, many people have been asking me the similarities between that event and...
The time for change has come, take a stand
When COVID-19 struck into our lives like a lightning bolt from Zeus himself, disrupting everything we considered normal, I knew the worst was yet...
The fabulous host and fantabulist, Morris Knight
This week, a new book titled "Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist" was published. Morris, an early West Coast "gay liberationist," as he called himself,...
We still need justice for Nizah Morris
Protesters are demanding change and the defunding of police units across the nation as a result of the police killing of George Floyd. In...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
June may be Pride Month, but it isn’t official anymore. Not since Donald Trump became the president. He has never issued an official proclamation...
Biases and bad theories
At the heart of many societies’ "-isms" is a laundry list of stereotypes that seek to characterize a group in ways that both provide...
Changing the power structure
To say we are living in sad and dangerous times is an understatement. The rage of 400 years, the rage of 3.5 years, has...
Remember
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Eric Reason, Christopher McCorvey, Christopher Whitfield, Atatiana Jefferson, Dominique Clayton, Pamela Turner, Botham Jean, Antwon...
Creep of the Week: Racism
I’m writing this on June 1, the beginning of Pride month. Simultaneously, across the country, people are protesting and tensions are escalating over the...
All about Aimee
Aimee Stephens was a transgender woman.
In 2013, after decades of attempting to live as a man, Stephens approached her workplace, R.G. & G.R. Harris...
How a Supreme Court decision could determine the 2020 presidential election
My husband, Jason, asked an intriguing question on our daily Facebook Livestream this week. What will the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on LGBT nondiscrimination...
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