- 1. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... 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 ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 2. 14 Inspiring Celebrities Who Came Out Later in Life, On Their Own Terms
- (Sex)
- ... to hide my gayness. It was hard during my period, because we'd be either fired from our jobs or we would be discharged from service. It was just things that we just couldn't do. We couldn't live our lives.” ...
- Created on 14 September 2022
- 3. Here's What You Need to Know About the Mississippi Case That Overturned Roe v. Wad
- (Feminism)
- ... cases like Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized gay marriage as a right) and Griswold v. Connecticut (which recognized birth control as a right), for example, which are controversial but essential civil ...
- Created on 02 June 2022
- 4. A Little History On How The Blue-Haired Old Lady Trope Came To Be
- (Feminism)
- ... 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 ...
- Created on 05 April 2022
- 5. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- 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 ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 6. Cultures That Embraced LGBTQIA+ Identity Before Colonization Messed Everything Up
- (Living)
- ... via Wikimedia Commons Hinduism is the posterchild for queer representation when it comes to deities. Hindu literature is full of fluid gender expression, gay sex, and polyamorous relationships. Basically, ...
- Created on 10 June 2021
- 7. Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
- (Books)
- 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 ...
- Created on 12 March 2021
- 8. Five Women Who Shaped Motown Soul: Not Just Pretty Faces, but the Heart of Hitsville U.S.A.
- (Music)
- ... 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 ...
- Created on 10 February 2021
- 9. Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
- (Blog)
- Amy Coney Barrett may be a woman but she is no Ruth Bader-Ginsburg. The staunch and conservative catholic is Donald Trump's Supreme Court choice to replace Ginsburg. As most of us know, the women ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 10. Why Is Poland Getting Rid of Protections Against Domestic Violence?
- (Feminism)
- ... a treaty that protects women against violence, marital rape, and genital mutilation. Justice minister, @ZiobroPL calls it “an invention, a feminist creation aimed at justifying gay ideology”. https://t.co/dbFo6O1RWR ...
- Created on 03 August 2020
- 11. Meet Alyy Patel, Founder of Queer South Asian Womxn’s Network (QSAW): BUST Interview
- (Feminism)
- Alyy Patel is a LGBTQ+ activist and graduate student living in Canada. Her research includes “'Brown Girls Can’t Be Gay': Racism Experienced By Queer South Asian Women in the Toronto LGBTQ Community,” ...
- Created on 31 July 2020
- 12. “Homosexual terrorism”, “Demon Sperm” and “Alien DNA”: Trump’s New Favorite Doctor is Quite the Quack
- (General)
- ... people run the government. She also believes that Illuminati are using witches and demons to destroy the world with abortion and gay marriage. Immanuel also said that she believes the government is trying ...
- Created on 29 July 2020
- 13. Twitter Phenom Jaboukie Young-White Talks DMs, Comedy, and Millennials: BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... When I ask the openly gay comic if he’s thought about marriage and kids, he tells me he’s considered “both.” “I’m grappling with how much of that shit I actually want,” he says, “and how much I want just ...
- Created on 21 July 2020
- 14. Russia Moves To Officially Ban Gay Marriage
- (Feminism)
- ... between a man and a woman.” Not only does the legislation ban gay marriage, but adoption. However, discrimination against same-sex couples looking to adopt was already rampant. Now it’s just enshrined ...
- Created on 17 July 2020
- 15. A Massachusetts City Now Legally Recognizes Polyamorous Couples
- (Feminism)
- ... done in 2012, “essentially half of the respondents (49.5 percent) identified as female, while only 35.4 percent identified as male.” Domestic partnerships were initially created before gay marriage ...
- Created on 07 July 2020
- 16. 16 LGBTQ+ Movies Directed By Women Of Color To Watch This Pride Month
- (Movies)
- ... her mother also has some secrets of her own which leads to her moving in with Wil. The film depicts the strain of this relationship between Wil and her mother, and Wil and her openly gay girlfriend (Lynn ...
- Created on 23 June 2020
- 17. Nicole Kang of "Batwoman" talks Superheroes, Quarantine, Asian Representation, and BLM Solidarity: BUST Intervie
- (TV)
- ... and approval and her support; she helped Kate open her gay bar, The Holdup.She loves Kate so, so much. In Episode 17, Mary’s the one empowering Kate. The world needs Batwoman and she empowers her at her ...
- Created on 15 June 2020
- 18. 12 Books By Black Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
- (Books)
- ... of (My) Body by Roxane Gay In the second paragraph of Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body, Roxane Gay warns that her memoir will defy easy categorization. This is not a story of weight loss, but neither is ...
- Created on 12 June 2020
- 19. Northern Ireland Just Had Their First Same-Sex Marriage
- (Feminism)
- ... made history.” The LGTB+ community in Northern Ireland has been fighting for gay marriage for years, and Rachel Savage writes in Reuters about this “new culture war” — so, finally gay marriage has become ...
- Created on 14 February 2020
- 20. This Vagina Goddess Is The Best Ancient Symbol You've Never Heard O
- (Arts)
- ... “she rides upon a farrow [a sow]. Then honor to whom honor is due. Mother Baubo to the front, and lead the way!” In his 1882 work, The Gay Science, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche muses that, “Perhaps truth ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
