Category Archives: activism
Photoessay of LGBT Folks Around the World
Photographer Robin Hammond brings photos and stories from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexed (LGBTQI) persons from around the world. His photography is an effort to highlight the injustices and abuse that many face in countries that are openly hostile … Continue reading
Today in LGBT History: Marching for Our Rights In Washington, D.C. circa 1965
As we are a week away from another historic moment in gay rights history with the April 28th Supreme Court Cases on Marriage Equality, we are reminded by ABC news of another milestone in gay history that happened around this … Continue reading
NCLR Launches #RuralPride Effort to Promote/Connect Rural LGBTs
In an effort to show that we truly are everywhere and from all walks of life, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has launched a campaign called #RuralPride: The #RuralPride campaign is a partnership between NCLR and the U.S. … Continue reading
Show Your Family Pride with #MyQueerFamily
From The Huffington Post comes this request for photos of what our families look like; be they your close friends, pets, spouses or you and the kids: Yep. This is from her prom. "@huffpostgay: Are you proudly part of a … Continue reading
Washington, D.C.’s LGBTQ Violence Response Hotline
METROWEEKLY reports on a partnership between the D.C. Office of Victim Services (OVS), Helping Individual People Survive (HIPS) and Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) to establish a 24 hour crisis hotline for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) … Continue reading
Today in LGBT History: The Lesbian Avengers
From The Huffington Post: Back in 1992, a radical activist group called the Lesbian Avengers staged a demonstration in front of a schoolyard in Queens, N.Y., handing kids balloons instructing them to “ask about lesbian lives.” The flyers that they … Continue reading
Blog Encourages Social Workers to #WearYourPride
While the below was specifically geared toward June’s Pride Month celebration, the below ideas from the website Social Work License Map are still relevant any month of the year, especially so if you are one of the areas of the … Continue reading
Pride Events Still to Come in 2014
While we tend to think of June as pride month. Gay Cities provides us with a list of some big city prides that are still to come this year; including Austin and Dallas which both happen in September. I am … Continue reading
