by admin | Nov 9, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, Transgender
November 20th is the Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to remember the names of trans people who have died in the past year to violence. It is a somber day—every year, there are more names to read. Trans people are as much as seven times more likely...
by admin | Oct 22, 2015 | Health, News, Science
Tuck C. Ngun, PhD, is a post-doctorate researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the first author on a paper entitled “A novel predictive model of sexual orientation using epigenetic markers.” So what does that...
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 | LGBTQIA+, Opinion
My childhood was bifurcated. I lived in two worlds. One was home to my identity as an LGBT child. One was in the heteronormative world, where I had to learn to negotiate a world that didn’t value me as I was and ordered me to perform as a heterosexual. Luckily, I...
by admin | Apr 13, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, News, Resources & Info
Admit it: it’s totally fascinating to peek at the bedroom habits of others. Earlier this year, Autostraddle – your source for “news, entertainment, opinion, community and girl-on-girl culture” – conducted a “Lesbian Sex Survey” that solicited thousands of responses on...
