Subjects Archives: LGBTQ

The Republican evangelical right scapegoats trans people as their latest “culture war” to mobilize far-right support and secure corporate interests.

The use of political and military metaphors in medicine is a tradition dating back at least to the turn of the 20th century when immunologists regularly distinguished between “Self” versus “Other,” and the “body’s own” defenses armed against external (and internal) enemies such as bacteria, viruses, or even tumors.

Roxanne Castellano, professor at the Psychology Faculty of the University of Havana, explained that this is a Code based on paradigms of non-discrimination that creates spaces for all, seeks solutions to conflicts, and is consistent with the conception of our socialist state of law and social justice.

Sarah Schulman’s recently released political history shines light on AIDS activism that often goes unrecognized.

How China’s first gender dysphoria clinic is slowly but surely transforming the transgender community’s access to healthcare.

An interview in the Guardian (9/7/21) made waves—not because of something it said, but because of something it didn’t say.

Grassroots organizations, many of them started and staffed by gay men, are doing the oft-neglected work of outreach in migrant communities.

The author, a teacher at a college in East China, reflects on the successes and challenges of her “Gender and Media” class.

Activist Chao Xiaomi is inspiring transgender Chinese to reject the gender binary. But the community continues to face deep-seated discrimination.

In addition to implementing mutual aid to fight mass incarceration, Lil Nas X’s ‘controversial’ visuals are inspiring young queer Black boys to be free.

Largely abandoned by middle-class gays, urban parks remain an important refuge for gay migrants in an otherwise hostile city.

June is Pride Month–a time set aside to honor the Stonewall uprising, which launched the movement to end discriminatory laws against LGBTQ people–and to remember the many important cultural and legislative victories since that pivotal summer in 1969.

Few publications covered Black trans communities. After the death of Monica Roberts, TransGriot’s founder, the people she empowered grieve and begin to chart a new era.

A record-breaking wave of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country this year. Texas lawmakers filed the most of any state, the majority of them attacking trans youth.

As states continue to pass laws that dehumanize and endanger transgender kids, the country’s most influential newspapers have not met the challenge of covering the issue.

For decades, kids who didn’t conform to the gender expected of them were forced to endure treatments designed to “cure” their gender nonconformity. This form of therapy, called “reparative” or “corrective,” typically involved instructing parents–and sometimes teachers–to subject children to constant surveillance and correction.

Cuba is celebrating from Tuesday to May 30 the 14th edition of the Conference against Homophobia and Transphobia, under the slogan ‘All rights for all people.’

CounterSpin interview with Christy Mallory on anti–trans youth bills.

Words for different flavors of trans people come and go, gathering different assortments of us together and drawing different lines between us.

For Marxist ecofeminists, the domination of men over women in society and nature at large is therefore not a result of patriarchal ideas alone.