Republican senator in not quite evil enough to disown gay son shock!
Dave Lartigue is unimpressed by a Republican senator suddenly realising gay people aren’t that bad after all just because his own son has come out: Some are praising this guy’s sudden awareness that...
View ArticleY’all better quiet down!
Sylvia Rivera was a gay trans woman, veteran of the Stonewall Riots that kickstarted the gay liberation movement in the US in 1969. Here she’s addressing a gay and lesbian crowd at the 1973...
View ArticleRadical feminists war on trans people
Samantha Allen talks about the war on trans* people waged by a certain kind of radical feminist: I’m an endangered species. Nearly half of people like me attempt suicide. Hundreds of us are murdered...
View ArticleAnd now the UKIP shipping forecast
Because UKIP councillor David Silvester claimed to know the mind of god, revealing that the floods that hit the UK recently were punishment for the country’s passing of gay marriage laws, it made...
View ArticleTERF wars
Emma Allen of Radical Women attempts to explain the transphobia exhibited in some parts of radical feminism: At the heart of the attacks on transgender people is the traditional radical feminist...
View Article“The Fanciest Genderqueer You’ll Ever Meet”
H. Kapp-Klote writes about their coming out as genderqueer to themself and talks about the hostility to genderqueer in LGBT circles and some of its potential causes: This is part of a narrative of...
View ArticleIdentity politics
I’m a straight cis white male but it’s only relatively recently that I’ve begun to think about myself using these labels. One of the surest signs of privilege is not having to think about your...
View ArticleBeing gay is not rated R
The New Yorker talks to the (gay) developer who made it possible to have LGB romances in The Sims. They also talk about a competing Nintendo product where it was explicitly disallowed and the attitude...
View ArticleTERFs, like all bullies, always claim to be the victim
Sadly, Sam Hope is right when they argue that the TERF woman taking a trans person in a headlock will be remembered as the victim, not the aggressor: “Granny beaten up by trans activist” was the story...
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