LGBTQ

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”

These 2 films reveal the powerful ways Black queer women find pleasure despite heteronormative violence

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

Airgo x BYP with Danielle Roper

Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners

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

Angola removes colonial-era law that prohibited homosexuality

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

Your perfect work record won’t protect you if you’re Black and don’t stay in your place

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

Comic: The education system stifles LGBTQ+ students and kids of color from the start

String of Black LGBTQ+ murders sparks fear of serial killer in Central Florida community

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

Comic: Revolution means nothing if it doesn’t include Black women and Black queer folks

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

Finalists for 30th annual Lambda Literary awards honoring LGBTQ literature announced

Black LGBTQ activists convicted on six of eight charges for Columbus Pride protests

It’s not just straight men: We all have to reckon with internalized femmephobia in the wake of #MeToo

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

‘Families of Chicago’ to host a safe space for LGBTQ people of color with 2nd annual holiday banquet

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

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