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CommentaryThe most powerful form of protest is voting
Protesting and voting are not mutually exclusive.
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News (World)Pompeo forces ambassador to South Korea to take down embassy’s Pride & Black Lives Matter banners
The flying of Pride flags at worldwide U.S. embassies have become an understated way to oppose the current administration’s relentless attacks on the LGBTQ community.
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CommentaryRacist names aren’t limited to military bases. Sports teams love them too.
The Washington DC football team’s name literally includes a racist slur for Native Americans.
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CommentaryHow do we celebrate Pride when police are still beating & killing us?
LGBTQ civil rights and black civil rights histories intersect on many issues — with violence and police brutality among them.
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News (USA)A Chicago cop called a protestor a “f****t.” The mayor is a lesbian & she’s not having it.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has never been shy about standing up for LGBTQ people.
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PoliticsPence picked an anti-LGBTQ extremist to lead “listening” session with Black leaders
“We can’t have social justice, we need biblical justice,” he claimed. “It matters that Black Lives Matter has, at the head, a few lesbians who are against the patriarchal society.”
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NewsL.A. Pride no longer organizing Black Lives Matter solidarity march
A white Pride parade organizer was coordinating with police without consulting Black Lives Matter activists.
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News (USA)Police union loses fight to keep identity of cop who killed Black trans man Tony McDade a secret
The union claimed the officer was “the victim.”
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LifeActors Justice Smith & Nicholas Ashe just came out together. They’re a couple.
“You’ve been my rock and guiding light through all of this and I love you so much,” Justice wrote while discussing the importance of queer inclusion in the Black Lives Matter movement.
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CommentaryActivism doesn’t need to be peaceful. Larry Kramer taught us that.
Neither Marsha P. Johnson nor Larry Kramer protested “the right way,” but we look back on them as heroes.
