LGBT

Being a bi grey asexual means continually redefining desire away from limiting social constructs

How Black Mirror’s “Striking Vipers” episode failed bisexual men & trans women

What do you do when childhood trauma makes you close off from the care you need to heal it?

On being queer and mourning the loss of straight male friendships

In and out of the closet: Rejecting the heteronormative binary of “coming out”

Why bisexual people don’t owe anyone disclosure of their sexuality

Somewhere over the rainbow: Reading the Pride symbol as a queering of the Bible

In a world where my parents let me be as free as Dwyane Wade & Gabrielle Union let Zaya

Black queer people were never #allJussieSmollett

In defense of The Gay Agenda: Reimagining life without cis-heteros

In response to Trump administration’s memo define gender to exclude transgender people, organizers, activists say we #WontBeErased

The story of Black queer women imprisoned for defending themselves to reminds us this criminal system cannot save us

Queer isn’t who you are, it’s how you reclaim freedom. And even the gayest of us sometimes fail at it

My queerness won’t let me give up on my queerphobic Black parents

Black youth need more than public health strategies that read sexuality as diseased and immoral

Supreme Court: Colorodo shop can’t be forced to serve gay couple, but ruling may not apply to similar cases

Conservative Christian colleges stuck between fear of laws around LGBTQ discrimination and fear of change

Working through anti-Black ideas around HIV while my partner is HIV positive

Luther Vandross hid for his mama: The closet is not only for the self-hating and selfish

Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter Organization

Learning to love myself enough to f*ck raw while Black and HIV positive

The anti-Blackness of believing there’s no support for queerness in the hood

How much to live?: The Black LGBTQ health care crisis did not start with Trump

We are in a queer media movement, but is increased visibility the answer to violence?

Black and Latinx queer people need safe spaces, too

1 year after Pulse, the vulnerability (and strength) of queer people of color is more apparent than ever

President Trump won’t acknowledge LGBT Pride month

Keep your white friends and partners away from Black Pride events

“I’m not gay no more”: on Andrew Caldwell, static sexuality & gender expression

How Religious Liberty Bills Target Women and Regulate Sex

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