Hugo Minchin — counsellor and co-founder of Talk to the Rainbow, the centre for LGBTQ+ therapy in Bristol — told Mashable social media is "full of idealised portraits of picture-perfect human beings." "Comparing oneself to a fitness model, a porn star, or an influencer is unrealistic. We...
With the absence of comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive sex education, many of us turn to media to glean what information we can. Unfortunately, mainstream media often promotes incorrect ideas about sex, like the idea that anal sex is always painful for the person being penetrated. And Anthony’s ...
I don’t know if it had the impact I wanted it to, but I hope it did something. There is so much more I want to write about. About this situation and the world that is now and maybe what will come, yes, but also about the things in life where joy still exists. Because I ...
The official legacy media line is that there is a single, unanimous “LGBTQ+” community, that every one of us supports indoctrinating children in the core ideas of critical queer and gender theory from kindergarten on and transing those kids who say they are the opposite sex, after a mereco...
This essay, originally presented as a talk at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis on April 30, 2023, as part of the Midwest LGBTQ+ Rights Conference and the Washington University Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series, takes up the new intersectional and anti-racist LGB...
How did Playing with Pride start? Starting in 2014, we drove around the country, visiting LGBT and ally gamers in their homes to ask them why LGBTQ game events matter to them. In the process, we gathered intimate stories about how games helped people come out, find their tribe, become cl...
When in your life have you felt like the LGBTQ community was on your side when the rest of the world maybe was not? Always. I remember when I was doing (the play) "Come Back to the Five and Dime" (in 1976) and we had standing room only before we...
Lil Bo Weep, real name Winona Brooks, was an Australian artist and social media personality. According to her father, who shared the news of her death on Facebook, she died on March 5. “She fought hard against her demons as we all did side by side next to her and picking up the ...
Over 70 girls from five cities — New York, NY; Oakland, CA; Taipei, Taiwan; Trivandrum, India; and Porto Alegre, Brazil — stepped up for the challenge. Here’s what the finalists came up with. (List items start with the hackathon winning entry; the rest are in alphabetical or...
Everyone feels isolated at some point, but for members of the LGBTQ community, that loneliness hits harder.