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5 Transgender Folks to Commemorate in Honor of Transgender Remembrance Day
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(Living)
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... herself as a gay person, a drag queen, and a transvestite. Marsha P. Johnson (the P an abbreviation for ’Pay it no mind’) was a symbol of gay and transgender rights and fought in the raid of the Stonewall ...
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Created on 22 November 2022
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Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
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(TV)
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... at the helm. Thousands of LGBTQ civil servants were branded as national security risks and forced out of government careers. The FBI infiltrated and monitored the early gay rights organizations of the ...
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Created on 13 October 2022
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"Legends of Drag" Pays Homage To Drag Icons "Of A Certain Age" Who Paved The Way For The Queens of Today ...
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(Books)
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... of drag and gay liberation, and reinvigorate the value of acknowledging/honoring our trailblazing queer elders.
Authors Hanson and Antheus traveled across the U.S. hitting 16 different cities to meet ...
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Created on 21 June 2022
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From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
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(Entertainment)
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... of Diane Arbus. “I came from a very conservative background,” Hill explains. “Closeted, had no idea what gay, queer, or trans meant. I didn’t know anything.” Arbus’ work, however, ignited something in ...
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Created on 16 June 2022
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The Secret History of Women and Mushrooms: A Centuries-Old Tale of Empowerment, Enlightenment, Education, and Magic
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(Eat Me)
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... vegetable outcasts,” she once wrote in a letter. “Like beggars by the wayside dressed in gay attire, they ask for attention but claim none.” It took her 20 years to write The Fungi of Maryland. Filled ...
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Created on 28 April 2022
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"Dressing The Resistance" Features The Fashions of Women Activists, And Shows How People Have Historically Used Clothing To Activate Chang
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(Style)
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Clothing can be anything the wearer wants it to be, from a symbol of personal expression, to a class signifier, to simply the thing that keeps one protected from the elements. It can also play a part ...
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Created on 12 April 2022
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A Little History On How The Blue-Haired Old Lady Trope Came To Be
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(Feminism)
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... be it miniskirts or gay marriage. Given that these are not the people one would associate with crazy-colored hair, what’s behind this ageist, sexist slur?
Blue hair has been around longer than you might ...
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Created on 05 April 2022
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Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
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(Entertainment)
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This Black History Month, let’s appreciate Black women’s history. This Black History Month, we should be educating ourselves— not only in reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, teaching ...
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Created on 16 February 2022
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Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
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(Blog)
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Social media icon Bretman Rock makes his debut as the first openly gay male featured on the cover of Playboy Magazine. The 23-year-old Filipino influencer has been producing beauty content online over ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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Living in Her Truth: Mae Whitman Comes Out As Pansexual In Tweet About Role In LGBTQIA+ Friendly Show “The Owl House”
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(Feminism)
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... Was Jojo Siwa's Gay Awaken
You Betta Werk! Mj Rodriguez Makes Emmy History, Becomes First Trans-woman Nominated in Leading Actress Category
A Fitting Finale To Pride Month: Kataluna Enriquez Becomes ...
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Created on 18 August 2021
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You Betta Werk! Mj Rodriguez Makes Emmy History, Becomes First Trans-woman Nominated in Leading Actress Category
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(TV)
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... not unfamiliar with making history and breaking records. Billy Porter (who portrays Pray Tell) became the first openly gay Black man to be nominated for and win in a leading acting category in the 2019 ...
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Created on 13 July 2021
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"The Lesbian Bar Project" Documentary Is Helping to Save Lesbian Bars From Extinctio
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(Movies)
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... within their walls. Throughout the film, we are introduced to gay women, such as Lisa Cannistrac, the owner of Henrietta Hudson who is looking to cultivate a space that welcomes all people regardless of ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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Don't Forget Your Story: Why Kink Will Always Belong in Prid
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(Living)
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... won’t enjoy it because he’s two. I am not worried that he might see an elder gay walking a “pup” on a leash. My son loves dogs.
During my deep dive of rage reading, I came across an un-ironic tweet stating: ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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9 Books By International LGBTQ+ Authors For Present And Future Pride Celebrations
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(Books)
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... in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur Image via Grove Atlantic Both funny and moving, Love in the Big City was a massive hit in South Korea. It follows Young, a gay man living in ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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NYPD Is Banned From NYC Pride Events Until 2025 In An Effort To "Create Safer Spaces" For LGBTQIA+ And BIPOC Communitie
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(Feminism)
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... acknowledge their harm and to correct course moving forward, in hopes of making an impactful change,” Buzzfeed reported.
The Gay Officers Action League released a statement on Friday, claiming they ...
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Created on 19 May 2021
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Podcasting OG's Crissle West And Kid Fury of "The Read" Land A Historic Record Deal With Issa Rae’s Raedio Lab
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(Entertainment)
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... Podcast
Roxane Gay Talks Fat Liberation, Puppy Parenthood, And Teaching Her Own MasterClass On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast!
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Reveals Why Her Future Is Feminist On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast ...
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Created on 29 April 2021
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Ex-cult Member Lauren Hough Reflects On Rebuilding Her Life From Scratch In "Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thin
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(Books)
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... clashes with the criminal justice system, and a stint as the most amazing bouncer in gay history. You’ll laugh, cry, recoil in horror, and probably gasp, but mostly, you’ll appreciate Hough’s candor as ...
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Created on 06 April 2021
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Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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To say JEB is a trailblazer is accurate but inadequate. As she puts it, “We were outlaws, literally, because of the laws against us.” Today, it's difficult to imagine the chutzpah it took for JEB to ...
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Created on 12 March 2021
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Five Women Who Shaped Motown Soul: Not Just Pretty Faces, but the Heart of Hitsville U.S.A.
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(Music)
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... of soul legends like Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder. But these household names benefitted, creatively and financially, from the hard work and talents of the women of Motown, many of whom ...
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Created on 10 February 2021
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Does Your Favorite Lesbian Film Pass This Test?
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(Movies)
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... most notable one in recent history was 2015’s Bessie, staring Queen Latifah. We deserve an Audre Lorde biopic starring Lena Waithe!
I propose a new test: the Gay Test, named aptly after Roxane Gay, patron ...
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Created on 05 February 2021