by admin | Oct 19, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, Transgender
In a world that has long denied their identities and even their existence, the medical community and society is now progressing toward inclusive healthcare options for transgendered people. This week, grocery chain Kroger announced that it would offer full coverage...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Sunday the 11th was National Coming Out Day, and to engage with the day the Fire Department of New York released a video PSA for the It Gets Better project, targeted at LGBT youth. Federal legislation, like the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and the Supreme...
by admin | Oct 1, 2015 | Equality, International, Intersex, News
Recently, the United Nations held its first ever hearing to address human rights violations against intersex people. The term intersex refers to people who are born with ambiguous genitalia or other sex characteristics that prevent them from neatly fitting into the...
by admin | Sep 17, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
Though people around the country are arguing that Kim Davis, the Kentucky law clerk recently jailed (and released) for refusing to issue same-sex marriages in Rowan County, is practicing civil disobedience, that term does not accurately describe what Davis has done....
by admin | Sep 17, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+
What was it like to live in a world that separated people by color? What is it like to live in a world that separates LGBT people from their fundamental civil and human rights? These two questions open up a world of issues and ideas. Luckily, there is a place to...
by admin | Sep 11, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+
A Kentucky county clerk was jailed last week for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses and now her attorneys are asking that she be released from jail while her appeal is pending. Two gay couples and two straight couples have sued her and Davis still refused to...