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Commentary
The LGBTQ community has fought for the right to exist. Now it’s time for us to fight for more.
In 2021, we have the opportunity as a community to stand up, in defense of others and ourselves, and decide what kind of society we will have.
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News (USA)
Trans & queer New Yorkers faced brutal use of force by police near Stonewall. The mayor “doesn’t know anything.”
A regularly held, trans-led rally ended with police sieging the crowd near the LGBTQ rights landmark. NYC’s “second-in-command” official was shoved – but Bill de Blasio shrugs it off.
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LGBTQ Pride
Pride in Pictures: No photo available
Not all the submissions we received had photos with them, but they still deserve to be shared.
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News (World)
UK moves to ban trans youth from getting gender affirming health care
A minister said she wants to protect transgender youth from “irreversible decisions” by forcing them to undergo puberty as the wrong gender.
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LGBTQ History
How gay Halloween became a major event in one small Indiana town in 1975
Some people were deeply closeted and used the Halloween dance’s popularity to be around out LGBs while pretending to be straight.
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LGBTQ History
How Alfred Kinsey armed the early gay rights movement with research
Even early gay rights activists wouldn’t have known just how many people they were fighting for without him.
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LGBTQ Pride
Google warns that employees will be punished if they protest at Pride
Employees are mad that YouTube isn’t cracking down on anti-LGBTQ hate speech.
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Politics
Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk wants to see ‘more Stonewall Riots’
Berk says the LGBTQ community needs to do this to make up for the loss of rights under Trump.
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LGBTQ History
This trans activist was there at the start of the modern LGBTQ movement
“I’m nothing special, I’m just one of the girls.”
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News (USA)
A ‘Caitlyn Jenner’ Halloween costume on Amazon has been blasted for transphobia
The seller isn’t going to pull the costume: “It’s a costume. It’s funny.”