LGBTQ

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

Stop expecting Black children to grow up straight & cisgender

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

I Will Tell If You Don’t: HBCUs, Gender, and Sexual Violence

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

Black and Latinx queer people need safe spaces, too

How Trump’s anti-Black, anti-poor, and anti-LGBTQ administration affects marginalized people

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

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 femmephobia and the gender binary caused me to hate myself

Trump’s Administration Is Coming For Trans Rights Even Though He Said He Wouldn’t

Why I can’t hold onto the gospel of Pastor Kim Burrell

Amandla Stenberg Opens Up About Their Gender Identity

Michael Sam’s Experience With Racism In the Gay Community Isn’t Surprising

Hampton University Approves First LGBTQ Organization

Michael Sam: ‘gay NFL players have reached out’

Transgender activist CeCe McDonald to speak at the University of Chicago this month

Chicago Film festival tells stories of black LGBTQ community

Same Love, Same Spectacle

After 19 months, Cece McDonald freed from men’s prison

National Coming Out Day, Embrace who YOU are

Lee Daniels Offends w/ ‘Welfare Clinic’ Comments; Issues Non-Apology

21-Year Old Transgender Woman Beaten to Death in Harlem

Some Black Clergy Reportedly Uncomfortable w/ LGBT Movement Sharing Mantle at March on Washington

WWE Superstar Darren Young Comes Out

Jason Collins – NBA’s First Active, Openly Gay Player – May Get Signed

‘Ex-Gay’ Gospel Singer Donnie McClurkin Dropped from MLK Jr. Memorial Concert

CeCe McDonald Pens Letter from Prison About Trayvon, Racism, and Survivor’s Guilt

Cornel West Talks DOMA and Voting Rights; Says Blacks are Being “Pushed to the Back of the Bus”

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