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2020 Was the Deadliest Year for Trans and Gender-Nonconforming People on Record
Advocates call for media to counteract -- rather than perpetuate -- systemic discrimination.
I Was a Student of Amy Coney Barrett. She Isn’t an LGBTQ Ally.
As a professor at Notre Dame Law Judge Barrett made her anti-LGBTQ sentiments very clear to her students and peers.
Clarence Thomas Screed Suggests Supreme Court Should Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito argue “the Court has created a problem that only it can fix.”
LGBTQ Activists Celebrate Victory in Supreme Court’s Anti-Discrimination Ruling
While celebrating the ruling, others noted that discrimination would remain an obstacle in the years ahead.
Betsy DeVos Is Complicit in Evangelical Right’s Assault on Trans Athletes
The Alliance Defending Freedom, which receives money from DeVos’s family, is suing to keep trans athletes out of sports.
“Mrs. America” Television Series Sidelines Black Feminists
The breadth of Black and Latinx women’s activism around the Equal Rights Amendment gets very little screen time.
Librarians Could Be Jailed or Fined Under Proposed Censorship Law
A proposed bill in Missouri penalizes librarians who make “age-inappropriate sexual material” available to children.
ICE Is Torturing LGBTQ Immigrants by Putting Them in Solitary
The trauma of isolation alongside the stresses of immigration heighten the risk of mental health crises.
Puerto Rico’s Uprisings Have Empowered a New Leadership Among the Oppressed
Rising activist leadership from youth, LGBTQ people and Black Puerto Ricans is a step toward liberation for the island.
Clinton Says Sanders Achieved “Nothing.” My Community Clinic Shows She’s Wrong.
Bernie Sanders’s push to expand community health centers has touched millions of lives, including mine.