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5 days ago
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Nancy Mace defended genocide threats by bringing up trans people. Sarah McBride shot her words down. - LGBTQ Nation

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1 week ago
LGBT

Trans sorority sister forced to flee state after lawyers targeted her. Now she's fighting back. - LGBTQ Nation

LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
5 days ago

Advocate newsletter 4/10/26

The Day of Silence raises awareness of LGBTQ+ harassment, facing renewed challenges from anti-trans legislation across the U.S.
Left-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
5 days ago

Nancy Mace defended genocide threats by bringing up trans people. Sarah McBride shot her words down. - LGBTQ Nation

Rep. Sarah McBride condemned anti-trans rhetoric equating trans identity with threats of genocide made by Donald Trump regarding Iran.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Trans sorority sister forced to flee state after lawyers targeted her. Now she's fighting back. - LGBTQ Nation

Artemis Langford sued lawyers for sorority sisters over publicizing personal information and settled with one lawyer while the other faces trial.
fromHoodline
6 days ago

Carol Greitzer, Greenwich Village Reformer, Dies At 101

Greitzer helped launch the Village Independent Democrats and quickly became a key strategist in the local insurgency that chipped away at Tammany Hall's machine in the early 1960s.
NYC politics
#dolores-huerta
NYC LGBT
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

Dolores Huerta Kept Silent to Protect the Man Who Abused Her. I Can Relate. I Did the Same.

Dolores Huerta's vibrant dancing at a gay bar exemplifies liberation and joy, challenging traditional notions of identity and age.
NYC LGBT
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

Dolores Huerta Kept Silent to Protect the Man Who Abused Her. I Can Relate. I Did the Same.

Dolores Huerta's vibrant dancing at a gay bar exemplifies liberation and joy, challenging traditional notions of identity and age.
Social justice
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Waiting for a hero to save us from Trump & MAGA? Here's where to look... - LGBTQ Nation

Heroes are often flawed mortals, and we must rely on ourselves for change rather than expecting saviors from above.
US news
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 weeks ago

Video: Surviving Cesar Chavez

Debra Rojas reveals her experience of sexual abuse by Cesar Chavez starting at age 12, impacting her life significantly.
NYC LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
1 week ago

NYC's most powerful transgender official is fighting intensifying anti-LGBTQ+ federal pressure

Taylor Brown leads NYC's Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs, addressing urgent attacks on transgender rights and dismantling long-standing inequalities.
#transgender-rights
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago
LGBT

This trans lawmaker's colleagues voted to take away her driver's license. She's still hard at work. - LGBTQ Nation

US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Democrats reintroduce Trans Bill of Rights as "a moral commitment" to trans people - LGBTQ Nation

Federal legislation would codify protections and access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security for transgender and nonbinary people by amending civil rights law.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Remembering trailblazing trans activist Miss Major

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy spent over five decades fighting for transgender equality, transforming personal hardship into sustained leadership and advocacy.
Higher education
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
2 weeks ago

Ann Rostow: Profiles in Courage - San Francisco Bay Times

California State University System sued the Trump administration for demanding changes to transgender athlete records, asserting legal protections under Title IX.
NYC LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 weeks ago

Transgender activists rally in D.C. as nationwide protests bring out millions

Transgender activists and allies rallied in D.C. for Trans Day of Visibility, advocating for federal protections and raising awareness of ongoing legislative issues.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

This trans lawmaker's colleagues voted to take away her driver's license. She's still hard at work. - LGBTQ Nation

Kansas State Rep. Abi Boatman, a transgender Air Force veteran, delivered a viral speech opposing SB 244, legislation that revokes transgender people's documents, restricts bathroom access, and creates legal incentives to sue transgender individuals.
SF LGBT
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
2 weeks ago

I'm a Young Transgender Woman Who is Thriving and Who Owes So Much to My Elders - San Francisco Bay Times

Stories have the power to change perspectives and highlight personal journeys, especially in the context of gender identity and family support.
#trans-rights
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

New poll shows why it's important for everyone to speak up in favor of trans rights - LGBTQ Nation

Majority of Americans support trans rights, but polling wording significantly influences public opinion on specific issues like gender-affirming care.
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago
LGBT

"I'm f**king tired": A trans man begs cis allies to step up & fight - LGBTQ Nation

Anti-LGBTQ+ policies and rising transphobia have caused healthcare loss, financial strain, family estrangement, and increased harassment for a queer trans man.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

New poll shows why it's important for everyone to speak up in favor of trans rights - LGBTQ Nation

Majority of Americans support trans rights, but polling wording significantly influences public opinion on specific issues like gender-affirming care.
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Tonika Lewis Johnson: Segregation and How to Disrupt It

Tonika Lewis Johnson's Folded Map Project connects residents known as 'map twins' who live on the same street name but miles apart, revealing structural inequality and personal commonality.
Arts
fromThe Oaklandside
4 weeks ago

Lateefah Simon talks about repping Oakland in a GOP-dominated Congress

We're going to have to really be on a road to committing to the American people that when they need a doctor, they will get one. I am very much a proponent of Medicare for all. I understand from all pragmatic sensibilities that may not happen in our lifetime, but courageous Democrats need to be pushing towards care for all, for every single person in this country, regardless of their status.
East Bay (California)
SF politics
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Illinois's Next Black Senator Deserves Credit for Her Own Campaign

Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, becoming the third Black woman senator and only the sixth in history.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 weeks ago

Trans people are here to stay, no matter who tries to erase us

Understanding the gender spectrum and dismantling misconceptions about trans identities is crucial for acceptance and recognition of diverse gender experiences.
SF LGBT
fromQueerty
4 weeks ago

"We're in something new": Susan Stryker says the trans tipping point is over...But the fight is far from finished - Queerty

Susan Stryker's updated third edition of Transgender History documents trans activism and history while addressing current political backlash, providing essential resources for understanding ongoing struggles and building community resilience.
Left-wing politics
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
3 weeks ago

Lateefah Simon talks about repping East Bay in a GOP-dominated Congress

Congresswoman Lateefah Simon prioritizes passing legislation for constituent health and well-being while pushing Democrats to take bolder stances against Trump's agenda.
fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

Commentary: The grief behind the cascade of online Dolores Huerta photos

Huerta's disclosed to the New York Times that fellow Chicano civil rights icon Cesar Chavez raped her during the 1960s. It was part of a story that also interviewed two women who claimed the United Farm Workers co-founder sexually abused them when they were young teens in the 1970s.
Social justice
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

After US Tennis kicked trans women out, these women came together to create an inclusive club - LGBTQ Nation

A trans-inclusive tennis league was created in Las Vegas after the U.S. Tennis Association banned trans women from women's events.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Dolores Huerta, sexual violence survivors speak out against Cesar Chavez

Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and other women have publicly accused deceased labor leader Cesar Chavez of sexual violence, with a New York Times investigation revealing abuse of children as young as 12.
#transgender-healthcare
NYC LGBT
fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 weeks ago

Dolores Huerta opens up about Cesar Chavez abuse allegations: 'It was very hard to keep this'

Labor activist Dolores Huerta publicly disclosed allegations that Cesar Chavez sexually assaulted her decades ago, breaking decades of silence following a New York Times investigation into Chavez's abuse of women and minors.
SF parents
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
1 month ago

Remembering Cynthia Brantly Pierce, who fought to close gender gaps from California Legislature to Congress

Cynthia Marie Brantly Pierce dedicated her career to electing Democratic pro-choice women to federal, state, and local office, helping double the number of women serving in the California Legislature.
fromMetro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly
1 month ago

Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area

In a region that prides itself on progress, women who built institutions, changed laws, fought segregation, defended bodily autonomy and reshaped culture have largely vanished from the public record. Their names are missing from monuments, street signs, statues and textbooks. Their work survives, but their stories do not.
History
NYC LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
4 weeks ago

At Creating Change, LGBTQ+ activists gathered to confront turbulent times

The National LGBTQ Task Force's Creating Change conference gathered 2,000 activists in Washington, D.C. to build long-term movement infrastructure and community resilience amid targeted attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.
#disability-rights
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
4 weeks ago
LGBT

Disability Groups Are Standing United for Trans Rights. That Hasn't Always Been the Case. | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Disability advocates and LGBTQ+ organizations now unite to secure federal civil rights protections for trans people, reversing a 1989 compromise that excluded them from disability law coverage.
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago
LGBT

Disability groups are standing united for trans rights. That hasn't always been the case

Disability advocates are now collaborating with LGBTQ+ groups to secure federal disability protections for transgender people against efforts to exclude them.
fromThe Oaklandside
1 month ago

Celebrating Betty Reid Soskin, civil rights storyteller and park ranger

Betty leaves behind a powerful legacy for all of us and certainly within the National Park Service. Her thoughtful, introspective musings about the Civil Rights movement and the women's movement and how they intersected are some of the unique moments that I will always treasure...Thanks to Betty we've learned that we can hold multiple conflicting truths at the same time.
East Bay (California)
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

'Elaine From Atlantic ... She Needs to Leave'

A journalist was ejected from Representative Jasmine Crockett's rally in Lubbock, Texas, after showing valid press credentials, and the congresswoman later made false claims about the journalist's professional history and credibility.
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

Nancy Pelosi visits Bronx for Women's History Month chat, hosted by Ritchie Torres | amNewYork

Pelosi outlined her groundbreaking journey from housewife to House Speaker a powerful position second in line of succession to the president. She is now retiring from Congress after nearly 40 years representing San Francisco.
Left-wing politics
#gender-affirming-care
from48 hills
2 months ago
LGBT

Rainbow Families Action fights for local trans kids with protests, board resolution - 48 hills

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2 months ago
LGBT

Rainbow Families Action fights for local trans kids with protests, board resolution - 48 hills

Digital life
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Fostering Change: Moving From Influence to Impact

Social media platforms prioritize engagement and certainty, while structured, community-based spaces like classrooms better support deliberation, reflection, learning, and sustained impact.
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
1 month ago

LGBTQ+ Equality Advocate and PFLAG Leader Julia Miller Thoron (1940-2026) - San Francisco Bay Times

Julia's friends remember the support and advice she so willingly provided, whether it was nursing or financial. Her activism could be quiet and private, or public and loud. She believed in women's rights, quietly encouraged financial independence for her women friends, marched down Market Street in support of PFLAG, and was featured in the first statewide television commercial for the No on 8 campaign.
SF LGBT
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Sarah McBride had the best 7-word response to a Republican who tried to insult her - LGBTQ Nation

Representative Sarah McBride was misgendered on the House floor but remained composed, continuing her duties while confronting ongoing anti-trans attacks from some Republican members.
East Bay (California)
fromThe Oaklandside
2 months ago

Rep. Simon introduces a bill to nationalize BART's ambassador program

The RIDER Safety Act lets transit agencies use federal crime-prevention funds to hire unarmed transit support specialists for de-escalation, crisis response, and minor noncriminal incidents.
Social justice
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Data is power: What we need to build meaningful infrastructure for Black & brown trans folks - LGBTQ Nation

Black transgender people are systematically excluded from research design and data collection, rendering their lived experiences invisible in statistics used by policymakers and organizations.
SF LGBT
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
1 month ago

Horizons Foundation President Roger Doughty to Retire After More Than Two Decades of Service - San Francisco Bay Times

Horizons Foundation president Roger Doughty will retire in November 2026 after over two decades, during which he grew the foundation's assets from $2 million to $72 million and annual grantmaking to $12 million.
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

"I didn't lose consciousness": Gay lawmaker on his resilience as he runs for Congress - LGBTQ Nation

Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss survived a severe car crash and a targeted bomb threat during his House campaign and remains committed to LGBTQ+ advocacy.
#claudette-colvin
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

Black LGBTQ+ leader derides Trump's cuts to HIV funding after State of the Union

The Trump administration cut $258 million in HIV funding, threatening 127,000 lives and disproportionately harming Black Americans with the highest HIV risk but worst access to care.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Political pragmatism is not a moral failing. It may be the only thing that can save us. - LGBTQ Nation

He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly. And now he's being a racist, blatantly. They were supposed to deport the dangerous criminals. They were not supposed to go after small children, storm schools, bring terror upon, you know, the little kids and the women and children, not just the immigrants in the school. All the children are scared.
US politics
#lgbtq-rights
US politics
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Sarah McBride demands Trump administration release severely disabled Delaware resident from ICE custody

Victor Acurio Suárez, a Delaware resident with significant developmental disabilities and asylum claims after violent gang attacks in Ecuador, faces imminent deportation.
Social justice
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This

Superficial reforms like body cameras and uniforms fail to challenge systemic state violence and instead legitimize and enable continued expansion and funding of ICE and policing.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

One year in, the Gender Liberation Movement is fighting for trans rights

Gender Liberation Movement led nationwide civil disobedience in its first year to defend transgender rights, bodily autonomy, and access to gender-affirming care.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

CNN's Kaitlan Collins Rips Trump Attacks On Women Reporters Tells Press To Stand Up To Him

Reporters must show solidarity and stand up when leaders demean women journalists to protect the press corps and public perception.
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

"Invest in community": A gay mom built her own support network after Trump killed her business - LGBTQ Nation

Funding cuts under the second Trump administration ended her business; she built Gay Moms Club as a lifeline and urges leaders to support queer families.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

She was fired for acknowledging trans people exist. Now she's fighting back. - LGBTQ Nation

Melissa McCoul filed a lawsuit alleging Texas A&M violated her First Amendment and due process rights after firing her for teaching that transgender people exist.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Birds of various feathers must flock together: Some fables about the U.S. & Europe - LGBTQ Nation

Alliances deter predatory aggression; isolation invites conquest, and victors can become arrogant, hoarding power rather than reciprocating support.
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