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, by GEORGE Marie-Amelie
As states and local school boards in some places continue to pass anti-LGBTQ+ rights legislation and policies, hate crimes against young LGBTQ+ people have also increased.
No charges will be filed in connection with a bathroom fight that happened the day before a 16-year-old nonbinary high (…)
, by WALKER Adria R.
SB 1780 would make it defamation to accuse someone of homophobia, transphobia, racism or sexism and punishable by fine
By day two of Florida’s legislative session, which started last month, lawmakers had introduced nearly 20 anti-gay or anti-trans bills. One such bill, SB 1780,, would make (…)
, by SATTA Mark
Nearly 500 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures in the U.S. in 2023. Many of those bills seek to reduce or eliminate gender-affirming care for transgender minors or to ban drag performances in places where minors could view them.
Most of those bills have not become law. (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
On June 30, the final day of its session, the Supreme Court majority issued four reactionary decisions. In addition to the one on affirmative action and another on voting rights, there were decisions curtailing LGBTQ rights and striking down relief for students burdened with large debts for (…)
, by PERKINS Tom
Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations.
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for (…)
, by SHARON YAM Shui-Yin
ON MARCH 4 at the Conservative Political Action Conference, right-wing commentator Michael Knowles among trans and nonbinary youths by respectively 60% and 73%. These proposed bills and legislations have palpable negative effects on the mental health of trans and nonbinary people. In addition to (…)
, by LEVIN Sam
The alarmingly high rates of depression, anxiety and suicide attempts are spread across liberal and conservative regions
More than 50% of transgender and non-binary youth in states across the US seriously considered suicide in the past year, according to new survey data on a worsening LGTBQ+ (…)
, par NNU
As advocates for patients and a just, healthy society, the registered nurses of National Nurses United mourn in solidarity with our LGBTQ+ siblings targeted in Saturday’s deadly Colorado Springs shooting and condemn the rightwing groups, elected officials, and social media accounts and media (…)
, by PRESS Alex N., SCHULMAN Sarah
Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show tells the story of one of the most compelling and successful social movements of the past century, ACT UP. We talked to Schulman about the “New York Crimes,” the messy joy of political commitment, and how ACT UP changed history.
On July 3, 1981, the New (…)
, by MIAH Malik
This year has already been horrific for transgender and gender non-conforming people in the United States.
According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) at least 24 transgender people have been killed. The majority were Black and Brown trans people.
The HRC is a leading LGBTI civil rights (…)
, by VOGEL Jesse
Queer activists in the 1980s and 1990s connected the queer liberation struggle to a broader politics of liberation for all. Today’s LGBTQ movement stands to learn from revisiting this history.
Last October, late one afternoon, I stood facing the locked iron doors of the U.S. Supreme Court (…)
LGBTQ visibility is crucial, but it shouldn’t be confused with LGBTQ rights.
Earlier this year in April, Nigel Shelby, a 15-year-old African American gay kid from Huntsville, Alabama, killed himself. Shelby was out at school and, as a result, was bullied relentlessly. The routineness of (…)
, by Reuters
The Trump administration is attempting to strip transgender people of official recognition by creating a narrow definition of gender as being only male or female and unchangeable once determined at birth, the New York Times reported.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has (…)
, by CARTWRIGHT Donna
Looking back on nearly 25 years of involvement in the LGBT movement, and 45+ years in the labor movement, I am struck by the way those paths have crossed, intertwined and separated over the long term. This arc took me into unexpected territory, where queer identities, once deeply hidden and (…)
, par HOBSON Emily, LECKLIDER Aaron
Aaron Lecklider : The title of your book is Lavender and Red : Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Could you tell us a bit about what the book is about and in particular what the relationship is between liberation, solidarity, and sexuality ?
Emily Hobson : The book is a (…)
, by ROSENBERG Alyssa
The movement for LGBT rights has made stunning progress in recent years. But the latest results of an ongoing poll commissioned by the gay rights organization GLAAD , which is releasing the results at the World Economic Forum in Davos today, suggests that just because change has come swiftly (…)
, by KIM Richard
Every evening I go to bed wondering the same thing: Whom will Donald Trump abuse on his Twitter feed next? On many a morning, I wake to find a fresh and heretofore unimagined hell. He’s like the C train, only more reliable. Today, it was news that Trump had appeared to ban transgender people (…)
, par PARIS Gilles
L’administration américaine a annoncé, mercredi, qu’elle mettait fin à un dispositif fédéral de protection des droits étudiants transgenres.
Donald Trump a donné une nouvelle fois des gages à son aile droite conservatrice. Les départements de la justice et de l’éducation ont publié, mercredi (…)
, par CARTWRIGHT Donna
A year after marriage equality was legalized nationwide, and two months since the June 12 massacre at a gay club in Orlando, the LGBT movement confronts a contradictory future. Although Orlando dramatized that violence against LGBT people persists, fueled by rightwing politicians’ hateful (…)
, by MILAN Kim Katrin
The visibility and presence of Black LGBTQ people is fraught with racialized homophobia and transphobia that co-opts their efforts.
For over two years Black Lives Matter as a movement and a hashtag has been furthering both local and international discourses on police brutality and anti-Black (…)
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