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Designer, Provocateur, Diva: Rainbow-Flag Creator Gilbert Baker’s Art and Activism
In 1978 a young artist named Gilbert Baker (1951–2017) created a flag to represent the LGBTQ community at that year’s San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. Over the subsequent 40 years, the rainbow flag has become an internationally recognized symbol of the LGBTQ community and an icon of contemporary design. In 2017, shortly after Baker’s death, his estate selected the GLBT Historical Society to preserve his personal archives, artwork and memorabilia. These precious materials are at the heart of a new exhibition, “Performance, Protest and Politics: The Art of Gilbert Baker,” opening November 1 at the GLBT Historical Society Museum. Co-curated by Jeremy […]
UK LGBT Hate Crimes Stats Make Shocking Reading
New hate crimes data for the United Kingdom shows a shocking number of incidents targeting LGBT people. As I was reading these figures, the need for LGBT-inclusive classes in UK schools has never been more apparent. The data, released last week, shows police recorded 14,491 crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation in 2018-19. Police recorded a further 2,333 offenses against transgender people because of their gender identity. Every year, the UK government releases police data on hate crimes on the basis of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Offenses are recorded as hate crimes if the […]
Trump is Abandoning Vulnerable LGBT Migrants to Face Abuse at Mexican Border
Vulnerable LGBT+ migrants are being kept in Mexican border cities to face violence and abuse, despite the fact that they are supposed to be excluded from Trump’s Remain in Mexico program. Remain in Mexico, technically know as the Migrant Protection Protocols program (MPP), was implemented in January 2019 and means that asylum seekers and migrants waiting to be processed by the US government must wait on the Mexican side of the border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that “individuals from vulnerable populations” would not be subject to the Remain in Mexico, and that it would only send back those […]
Trans Woman Found Dead in her Apartment May be 22nd Killed in the US this Year
The Philadelphia Police Department has confirmed to PinkNews they are investigating the death of Alicia Simmons, a trans woman. Simmons, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was found dead in her apartment on Sunday night. According to trans activist Ashlee Preston there were no signs of “foul play”, she wrote on Facebook. Nevertheless, trans activists remain weary around the cause of her death which, if proved to be malicious, would make Simmons the 22nd trans person killed in the US this year alone. Local community leaders and investigators are scrambling to piece together what happened to Simmons. Officers stated she was found in an apartment in the 4900 […]
Supreme Court Justices Met with Leader of Anti-gay Hate Group ahead LGBT Rights Cases
Before announcing their judgement on three critical LGBT+ rights cases, US Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito chose to meet with the leader of a notorious anti-LGBT+ hate group. Kavanaugh and Alito met with Brian Brown, who is the co-founder of the National Organisation for Marriage (NOM) and the president of the World Congress of Families (WCF). Both groups actively campaign against basic LGBT+ rights in the US and beyond. Brown himself has long organised against LGBT+ communities, promoted harmful laws and emboldened other hate groups and extremists. Recently, he boasted of his close relationship with autocratic Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and met with […]
GOP lawmakers in 3 States Want to Ban Trans Health Care for Minors
Conservative lawmakers in Texas, Georgia and Kentucky are calling for laws to prohibit minors from receiving gender transition-related health care such as puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy. Providers who administer these treatments, which are in some cases used to treat gender dysphoria in youth, could face a felony charge under a Georgia lawmaker’s proposal. The proposals come on the heels of a controversy in Texas spawned by a bitter custody battle between two parents who disagree on whether their 7-year-old is transgender. The Dallas case electrified conservative and far-right media in October and spilled over into state and national politics, with […]
Trump Rule Would Let Faith-based Adoption Group Exclude LGBTQ Parents
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to continue getting taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBTQ families and others from their services based on religious beliefs. The announcement generated a sharp backlash from some Democratic lawmakers and LGBT advocacy groups. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the Trump administration was working overtime to “implement cruel and discriminatory policies, and wasting taxpayer dollars in its obsessive pursuit.” President Donald Trump has made addressing the concerns of evangelical voters a priority of his presidency. The White House says the rule from the Department of Health […]
Book Review: All the Bad Apples’ By Moïra Fowley-Doyle
I read this book in two sittings–over a forgotten, rapidly cooling latte and later, on a boat in the Green River in eastern Utah, so engrossed that I barely noticed the red cliffs. This novel will sink its teeth into you and you won’t want it to let go. Denna, the protagonist of All the Bad Apples, comes from a very uptight, controlling Irish family that doesn’t take kindly to any abnormalities. Rumors have started floating around Deena’s Dublin high school that she’s a lesbian (the real trouble is that the rumors are absolutely true). On Deena’s seventeenth birthday, her older […]
Gay Man in Turkmenistan Goes Missing after Saying he Might be ‘Taken Away’
A gay man in the central Asian country Turkmenistan has gone missing after claiming in a heartbreaking video that he might be “forcibly taken away”. Kasymberdy Garayev has reportedly vanished alongside his mother, father and siblings after police discovered that he is gay. Gay men can be imprisoned for up to two years in Turkmenistan.ADVERTISING In the video – seemingly directed at his family – Garayev said: “My dears, forgive me. I’ve caused you a lot of pain recently. I made you cry. “I didn’t mean to hurt you. If I am forcibly taken away, know that I am innocent. Please forgive […]