by admin | Sep 10, 2020 | Bisexuality, Entertainment, Featured, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, Opinion, Queer Community, Transgender
“Bury Your Gays.” “Dead Lesbian Syndrome.” “But Not Too Gay.” “Out of the Closet, Into the Fire.” There are dozens of names for the common trope in media to include a queer character for diversity, but to kill them off for the twin ‘benefits’ of increased...
by admin | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured, Human Rights, Intersex, Politics, Transgender
While no one is having a good time in prison, for transgender women and men it is a particularly grueling ordeal. More than half of trans women in California prisons (59%) reported some manner of sexual assault, according to a 2007 research study. Trans women in...
by admin | Aug 19, 2020 | Equality, Featured, Human Rights, International, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ Youth, News, Sexuality
Conversion Therapy, or therapy meant to alter one’s sexual orientation or gender identity, is a so-called treatment inflicted on LGBT people to allegedly make them straight and/or cisgender. Practitioners over the years have used techniques like aversion therapy...
by admin | Aug 12, 2020 | Featured, International, LGBT community, LGBTQIA+, Queer Community, Sexuality
“For gay men in China, desires for unity and familiar acceptance are unrealistic,” says Yang Yiliang, a Chinese artist in talking about one of his cut-paper pieces of art, a romantic portrait of two men titled “Paper Grooms.” He continues: “The paper is symbolic...
by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | Bisexuality, Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, Homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+, Transgender
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow hung a pride flag from its building in the last week of June 2020, and that’s newsworthy. It’s newsworthy because flying the pride flag is barely legal in Russia. In 2013, President Putin signed a law called “for the Purpose of Protecting...
by admin | Jul 10, 2020 | Equality, Featured, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, International, LGBTQIA+, News, Sexuality
In Chechnya, the law states that “sodomy” or anal sex is a capital crime, with a first and second offense being punished by caning and a third offense by death, by means which include stoning or decapitation. It sounds like a law of antiquity, but it was actually...
