by admin | Feb 18, 2021 | Entertainment, Featured, International, LGBTQ, News
On February 5 2021, German entertainment magazine Süddeutsche Zeitung published a letter signed by 185 German actors. With their signatures, each came out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, non-binary, or queer, an incredible thing in a relatively conservative sector...
by admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured, News, Power LGBT
In 2004, Janie Gullickson was in prison for drug use. She had lost the custody of her five children, lost her job, and lost her freedom to addiction. For her, prison led to a connection that dug her out of that pit. But for most, exactly the opposite happens. Today,...
by admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Featured, Human Rights, News, Politics
In the United States, more than 8 percent of prisoners are housed in privately owned prisons, run for profit. CoreCivic (80,000 beds in 65 facilities) and the GEO Group (49,000 beds in 57 facilities) dominate the industry, making around a combined $3.5 billion a year....
by admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Equality, Featured, LGBTQ, Politics, Power LGBT, trans, Transgender
For many transgender people, a visit to the doctor is a fraught experience. Whether it’s a teenager’s pediatrician, the nurse practitioner prescribing flu medication, or a trauma surgeon in the ER, trans people every day run into medical professionals who...
by admin | Jan 15, 2021 | homophobia, LGBTQ, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
In 2016 in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, then-candidate Trump started calling himself a “real friend” to the LGBT Community, and promised he would fight for LGBT rights. It was a radical stance for a Republican candidate, but let’s be...
by admin | Jan 6, 2021 | Equality, homophobia, News, Politics, trans, Transgender
In 2017, Addison Perry-Franks was running a computer repair shop in Scurry County, Texas, when the Republican Texas governor, Greg Abbott, tried to force a ‘bathroom bill’ through the state lawmakers, even conducting a special session (on the taxpayer...
by admin | Dec 30, 2020 | Equality, Featured, gay, homophobia, International, LGBTQ, News, Politics, Sexuality, voice
China has not yet legalized same-sex marriage, and same-sex sexual relations have only been legal since the late 1990s. Same-sex households have no legal protections, and can’t adopt children. Public opinion is moving from a very broad sort of ‘don’t...
by admin | Dec 9, 2020 | Equality, gay, LGBTQ, Politics
For the most part, the European Union appears to be sitting back and watching as member nations like Poland and Hungary become increasingly hostile to their LGBT citizens, under the control of far-right political parties. The EU defunded Polish cities which have...
by admin | Nov 25, 2020 | Arts, Entertainment, International, Transgender
Everything in Isabel Sandoval’s indie drama Lingua Franca matters.
From Christy Lemire’s review: “In telling the story of a woman who, like her, is a transgender Filipina, Sandoval encompasses not just the complicated issue of sexual identity but also...
by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | LGBTQ, Politics, Power LGBT
During all of the uncertainty of 2020, political parties in several Eastern European countries worked hard to make some people’s lives more difficult. Laws were passed banning same-sex couples from adopting kids, and teachers from the topic of LGBT history in...
