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The Humans Rights Campaign (HRC) is an LGBTQ+ activist group that champions pediatric sex change interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex change surgeries. Since 2002, the HRC has issued their Corporate Equality Index (CEI) survey, which scores corporations based on thei...
A modern take on an old story,The Invisible Threadis a dramedy of familial trouble and self-discovery. The plot centers on Leone, a young man working on a project about LGBTQ+ rights, using his personal experience as a child of two fathers for inspiration. While dealing with questions about...
LGBTQ+ men (80%) aremore likely to be outthan LGBTQ+ women (58%). Senior LGBTQ+ leaders (80%) are more out than junior employees (32%), even though their peers are more accepting and demand inclusivity in the workplace. Globally, theWorld Economic Forumis advocating for LGBTQ+ visibilty...
Mashable: You've traveled all over the world. What's one thing you've learned about the global LGBTQ community through your adventures abroad? AE: We truly are a global community and a global movement. Every community that I’ve visited or talked with faces unique issues due to the social...
Social MovementsThis essay considers how rhetorics of expertise constitute social identity in the lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer/questioning (LGBTQ) rights movement. While members of the mainstream gay rights movement typically emphasize conventional political channels, participants in the "radical" ...
Black LGBTQ+ folks helped lead the civil rights movement. Homophobia buried their stories. Commentary Donald Trump crowns himself king of “deplorables” with every fascist word he says Life I wasn’t always proud to be a Black queer man. But one heart-wrenching moment changed everything. ...
The turn of the 21st century and the advent of technology marked a new chapter in the history of gay cruising. The rise of online dating platforms and social media provided a virtual space for LGBTQ individuals to connect and express themselves without the constraints of physical locations. This...
headed by the Pope and the bishops. Those who opposed immigration formed a movement that was aimed at forbidding immigrants from being granted full rights, especially the rights of citizenship and voting. The fear was pervasive. Many Northern Whites were afraid that immigrants would take their jobs...
The push for marriage rights as signifying all things gay and all things “equal” has taken up too much bandwidth and sucked the air out of the potentially more capacious room of queer world-making. So now that the battle is won, how can the movement (or movements more accurately, since...