LGBTQ+

Joan Gibbs, an activist and attorney who used her power — often on a pro bono basis — to fight HIV/AIDS and advance racial justice, women’s rights, and LGBTQ rights, died on March 14 at […]

 Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old transgender Choctaw student, was brutally beaten in an Owasso, Oklahoma, high school bathroom on Feb. 7 and died the next day. The school did not call an ambulance for Nex […]

Trans Day of Remembrance 2023:  MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING! The Coalition to Protect Trans Lives calls on trans and queer people and our allies to come out in force for […]

 On Nov. 2, a hate group called PragerU spent what is reported to be a million dollars to promote anti-trans lies on the social media site “X” (formerly Twitter), owned by right-wing billionaire Elon […]

On Oct. 24, the LA queer community (3 dozens of us anyways) showed up at Rep. Gomez’s office to let it be known that queers stand firmly against the genocide of more than 2 million […]

 Sept. 15, Lafayette, Louisiana – This writer joined over 30 protesters against corrupt far-right gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry. We gathered outside KLFY studios where the second gubernatorial debate was happening; Landry skipped the first […]

“In a Facebook post, the owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab said that anyone who identifies as anything other than a man, or a woman needs to get serviced at a local pet groomer.” The […]