by Beth Holmes | Sep 10, 2021 | Civil Rights, LGBT community, News, Power LGBT, Religion
Carl Bean, an icon of American LGBT history and acceptance and Motown music, has passed away 77 years after he was “Born This Way.” Bean was born in Baltimore in 1944, and raised by neighbors after his mother passed away. He was brought up in both the church and the...
by admin | May 29, 2019 | Featured, Transgender
On Saturday, May 25, the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO) voted to declassify gender nonconformity as a mental illness. They also decided replace the term “gender identity disorder” with “gender incongruence.” “The WHO’s removal of ‘gender...
by admin | Jul 22, 2016 | LGBTQIA+, News, Transgender
Amelia Gapin is the co-founder and software designer for MyTransHealth. This online business makes connections between users and trans-friendly healthcare providers. It’s a vital service, addressing a critical struggle faced by trans people around the world....
by admin | Feb 1, 2016 | Entertainment, Equality
“I hope you enjoy my shenanigans,” is the tagline on Thomas Sander’s Vine account, and by and large, the Internet does. His six-second videos, over 12,000 of them, have been seen over 4 billion times and have gained him 7.1 million followers on the relatively...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News
A United States government report, backed by the Obama administration, says that the practice of “conversion therapy”—efforts to “convert” LGBT youth to heterosexuality—must stop. The therapy is dangerous and poses significant risk and harm to LGBT-identified youth...