June 28, 1969 – July 3, 1969. Those were the dates of the Stonewall Uprising. The days - and I emphasize the plural - that changed US LGBTQ history forever. What we too often forget, with our...
As I was growing up, I always felt alienated from my peers, and I didn’t have the vocabulary to express why until I was a teenager. With the growing acknowledgement of nonbinary identities, there...
Let me begin by stating the obvious. For the majority of his life, US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg passed as a straight white male. This is how others viewed him, and thus treated him...
I’m not a huge fan of dating shows on TV and, when Channel 4’s Naked Attraction launched, it sounded kind of awful. The premise is this: a fully dressed person who wants a partner is presented...
Long before there was wifi and smartphones, let alone language to define my identity, I’d envisioned a world in which a boy could feel comfortable living his true self in a girl’s body, and...
In the midst of chaotic demonstrations and under threat from anti-LGBTQ groups, an organization made up of seven queer rights activists has managed to pull off the country’s inaugural Tbilisi Pride...
“I made a whole film, Paris Was a Woman, about lesbians in Paris between the wars. Now we have the internet, and the communication on the web, and people can fly places, and you can live...
Y’all ready to watch something besides a race of drag for LGBTQ+ Pride this year? Not gonna lie, each year Pride gets harder and harder. When your community is being decimated and there are several...
Nobody likes to feel left out. But sometimes, things are just not right for us. I wouldn’t attend a meeting for Black and minority ethnic adults, and I wouldn’t expect a non-disabled person to...
A new wave of arrests targeting the LGBTQ community in Azerbaijan has brought renewed attention to the country’s poor human rights record. On April 1, as many as 15 gay and transgender people were...
