Direct Action
STUDENT WALKOUT: Louisiana students protest the state legislature’s LGBTQ bills. (3/25/22)
NOW IT’S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE: Disney workers stage walkout to protest the “Don’t say gay” bill in Florida. (3/17/22)
‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CONTROVERSY: Florida students stage a walkout to protest the bill that would ban teachers from discussing sexual orientation to younger students. (3/7/22)
TRANS FIGHT: Bill restricting trans participation in sports finally breaks past activists. (2/6/22)
THE LONG HARD FIGHT: Sometimes it seems like marriage equality happened fast. But it required years of organizing and agitation, says Sasha Issenberg, the author of The Engagement. (12/31/21)
Free speech
COMING OUT AS CURLY: A Florida high school student was warned against saying the word “gay” in his commencement speech. So he talked about how he once hated his own curls and wanted them to be straight. The Soviet and Nazi underground would be proud. (5/24/22)
Health Policy
MONKEY POX: LGBTQ activists push for faster action on the latest scourge. (7/26/22)
History
★ RIP, URVASHI VAID: Remembering the brilliant LGBTQ organizer. She understood the core issue—and how big it is. “It was never about men should march with women because they support women,” she said. “We’re marching against the power of the state to tell you and me what to do sexually.” (5/24/22)
★ THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF ACT UP: In one of the best books ever on activism, Sarah Schulman tracks the brilliance of ACT UP. (7/7/21)
★ A SIGNAL MOMENT: A half century ago, Dr. Anonymous, disguised in a Nixon mask, told the American Psychological Associations he was gay and a psychiatrist. The next year the APA revoked its classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. (5/2/22)
INTERSECTIONALITY: A fancy word for collaboration among different groups. Here are some of the leading LGBTQ figures who blazed the trails still followed today. (3/8/22)
Research and Information
THE YEAR IN HATE: The Southern Poverty Law Center reports a decline in hate crimes…but at the same time, a toxic new mainstreaming of prejudice and violence. (3/9/22)
Strategy
LGBTQ RIGHTS UNDER FIRE: So what’s the best response? Law? The workplace? The community? Activism? (5/9/22)
THE CHOICE: “We can stick to guarding the rights we’ve won … Or we can commit to a broader and bolder vision that prioritizes collective liberation—for us, and for others—over individual rights.” (7/5/19)
Marriage equality
FIRST, THEY WENT AFTER WOMEN’S RIGHTS: Are gay rights vulnerable to the Christian right SCOTUS? If women do not have the right to privacy, who does? (6/2/22)
★ IS OBERGEFELL NEXT? As SCOTUS moves to overturn Roe, fears rise about the overthrow of marriage equality as well. Even if it does \n;t happen overtly, it could die from 1,000 cuts. (6/14/22)
Backlash
APRES LE DELUGE: An avalanche of anti-trans bills are working their way through state legislatures. (3/21/22)
OPENING UP: Disney’s culture has always been restrained. Then came the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. (3/22/22)
PARENTAL RIGHTS, EH? That’s the claim of anti-BLM and anti-LGBTQ legislation for public schools. But who could be sued for protecting their children’s rights. Yup. Parents.