by Beth Holmes | May 14, 2021 | Homophobia, Human Rights, International, News
Alireza Fazeli Monfared was 20 years old, and he was a gay man in Iran. Afraid for his life and future, he was about to travel to Turkey, which has offered asylum to LGBT people since the Geneva Convention in 1951. His partner, activist Aghil Abyat, was there waiting...
by admin | May 10, 2016 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
LGBT historians in a future Ukraine may well regard April 9th, 2016 as a date of note. On that Saturday, the first visible gay wedding took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk decided a year ago that they weren’t content to wait for the...
by admin | Feb 10, 2016 | LGBTQIA+, News
The Oak Lawn neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, is host to a strip of nightclubs and gay bars and is usually a decent area as far as strips go. But in the last four months, more than a dozen gay men have been assaulted and robbed. So far, the police are working on the...
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 | Jan 1, 2014 | Articles, News, Women's Rights
Everywhere you look today there are ads featuring thinner and thinner models. Many are so thin, it’s amazing they are even alive. Bones protrude from hips and collarbones jut out at abnormally sharp angles. These are not images of healthy individuals, but somehow,...
