Looking back on nearly 25 years of involvement in the LGBT movement, and 45+ years in the labor movement, I am struck by the way those paths have crossed, intertwined and separated over the long term. This arc took me into unexpected territory, where queer identities, once deeply hidden and (...)
Aaron Lecklider : The title of your book is Lavender and Red : Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Could you tell us a bit about what the book is about and in particular what the relationship is between liberation, solidarity, and sexuality ?
Emily Hobson : The book is a (...)
The movement for LGBT rights has made stunning progress in recent years. But the latest results of an ongoing poll commissioned by the gay rights organization GLAAD , which is releasing the results at the World Economic Forum in Davos today, suggests that just because change has come swiftly (...)
Every evening I go to bed wondering the same thing: Whom will Donald Trump abuse on his Twitter feed next? On many a morning, I wake to find a fresh and heretofore unimagined hell. He’s like the C train, only more reliable. Today, it was news that Trump had appeared to ban transgender people (...)
L’administration américaine a annoncé, mercredi, qu’elle mettait fin à un dispositif fédéral de protection des droits étudiants transgenres.
Donald Trump a donné une nouvelle fois des gages à son aile droite conservatrice. Les départements de la justice et de l’éducation ont publié, mercredi 22 février, (...)
A year after marriage equality was legalized nationwide, and two months since the June 12 massacre at a gay club in Orlando, the LGBT movement confronts a contradictory future. Although Orlando dramatized that violence against LGBT people persists, fueled by rightwing politicians’ hateful (...)
The visibility and presence of Black LGBTQ people is fraught with racialized homophobia and transphobia that co-opts their efforts.
For over two years Black Lives Matter as a movement and a hashtag has been furthering both local and international discourses on police brutality and anti-Black (...)
This statement was made by the Bureau of the Fourth International at its meeting of 19th June 2016.
After the killings in Orlando : grief, anger and vigilance
The killings perpetrated at the Pulse lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) nightclub in Orlando in the United (...)
Das Theke Das Hajar Statement on Orlando Tragedy
Das Theke Das Hajar condemns absolutely the violence in Orlando, leading to the murder of at least 49 people. That it was a clearly targeted mass killing, taking place inside Pulse, a Gay nightclub, shows that despite the periodic advances made (...)
They mouth support for the victims in Orlando, but weeks earlier, many political leaders were backing anti-LGBTQ legislation. Keegan O’Brien and Elizabeth Schulte report.
POLITICAL LEADERS in Florida and across the country, Republican and Democrats alike, are expressing their horror and outrage (...)
It is with pain and heartache that the Black Lives Matter Network extends love, light, protection, and abundance to our family in Orlando, Florida. We love you. Black people are a diverse community, and though the hate-filled rhetoric of the conservative right is currently trying to pit us (...)
Customers had seen killer there before and several report getting messages from him on gay dating apps.
The gunman who killed 49 people in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando is said to have been a regular at the venue and had messaged several people on gay dating apps, according to (...)
The Orlando killer visited Pulse and used the gay app Jack’d. If his sexuality is part of the story, Donald Trump’s response looks even stupider than it did before.
Sexuality is a simple word for a confounding landscape of feelings, sensations and thoughts : excitement, confusion, comfort, (...)
The sexualities of those murdered in Orlando shouldn’t be glossed over. This was the worst mass killing of LGBT people in the west since the Holocaust.
Orlando was both a terrorist attack and a homophobic attack on LGBT people. It was both the worst mass shooting in US history, and the worst (...)
After yesterday’s horrific attack on the LGBT community in Orlando, we must remember there is an alternative to hate and bigotry.
HORROR.
The word alone isn’t enough to describe the feeling as the country woke up to news of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. For three hours in the (...)
This statement by the British-based group “LGBT+ Against Islamophobia” was issued after the Orlando attacks. It is on their Facebook page. -----------------
Our sympathy and solidarity go out to the victims, their families and friends after the horrific attack at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando. (...)
LGBT Americans have been subjected to many forms of terror. We have responded with love, and grown stronger as a result. Let’s do the same this time.
For generations, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have turned to night clubs and bars like Orlando’s Pulse – the scene today of the (...)
This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that.
A strange thing happened a few months ago. I got a news alert that my photo project, Just Me and Allah, which documents queer Muslims and their diverse experiences, had been mentioned in a (...)
It doesn’t matter if the murderer in Orlando was Jewish, Christian or Muslim — the same hate crimes keep targeting us, over and over again, across the world.
At least 50 people were killed and another 53 wounded early Sunday morning in a massacre at the “Pulse” club, a venue associated with the (...)
The people who witnessed Muhammad Ali’s interfaith service need to take its lessons forward in a post-Orlando world.
There are no words regarding the emotional whiplash I feel, having attended Muhammad Ali’s funeral on Friday and now, on Sunday, attending a vigil in Washington, DC, for the (...)
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