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12 votes
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Love thy neighbor - A stolen flag, a painted fence, and a message to the community
10 votes -
Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters
36 votes -
Joe Biden administration grants Seattle Children's Hospital $240K for LGBT sex education tool
11 votes -
Montana judge temporarily blocks enforcement of law to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors
16 votes -
Gender is not the same as sex (linguistics perspective)
11 votes -
Gainesville, Florida is giving trans punk legend Laura Jane Grace a key to the city
11 votes -
New California law bars schoolbook bans based on racial and gender teachings
14 votes -
US military will review 2,000 ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ discharges
21 votes -
Under new policy, Italy starts removing lesbian mothers' names from children's birth certificates
44 votes -
Italian senate about to vote on a law that upgrades surrogacy to 'universal crime' would lead to prosecution of foreign acts within Italy
9 votes -
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims
16 votes -
Hyprland is a toxic community
34 votes -
Türkiye introduces ‘family’ course in schools to ‘fight’ homosexuality
16 votes -
Bad-faith coverage of trans issues — who does it serve?
16 votes -
Opinion: The Kids Online Safety Act would harm LGBTQ+ youth, restrict access to information and community
38 votes -
Trigger warning: Faced with professional discipline and a requirement to take training to keep his psychology license in Canada - Jordan Peterson shares his beliefs re trans people
21 votes -
Media reviewers?
I've had this problem come up so many times. I'll be watching a review on a movie/series and partway through the reviewer will make some rude comment about something they perceived as 'political',...
I've had this problem come up so many times. I'll be watching a review on a movie/series and partway through the reviewer will make some rude comment about something they perceived as 'political', or how it was made worse by feminism, or 'woke-ism'. Sometimes it's just a tiny little comment that rubs me the wrong way, and I'll realize: This review is being done by someone with opinions I want nothing to do with. And I especially don't want to further their YouTube career with my watch time. It's become such a pattern at this point that I don't even bother with YouTube media reviews anymore.
I'm not savvy in the landscape of media reviews, I'm relying on what the algorithm serves me, and so far it's only serving up slop. I'm trying to chew through my media backlog and also discover new things, and I'd like to see some perspectives on what's out there. Does anyone here have any recommendations for enthusiastically queer-friendly media review channels? (Not horror focused please, that's not for me.)
13 votes -
Inside one family's decision to move from Texas to California to protect their transgender teenager
41 votes -
My experience of transphobia today: "Ew, fucking gross, that's a man"
Said to my friend while we were minding our own business yesterday when walking from A to B in the city. For this old bigoted man that we happened to walk past, simply (gasp) looking at a trans...
Said to my friend while we were minding our own business yesterday when walking from A to B in the city. For this old bigoted man that we happened to walk past, simply (gasp) looking at a trans person was too much for him. How dare she go outside while being transgender? Nope, gotta call that out! Gotta tell this stranger that I find her disgusting! That's super important and I am doing the right thing..!
At least, that's what I imagine his train of thought was like. Who knows.
Blows my mind that people can't just keep homophobia/transphobia to themselves. For reference, there was no pride event or anything, like we weren't dressed in kinky outfits, we weren't waving dildos around or something. Not that being dressed a certain way would have excused his behavior, but it's just to say we were wearing very normal clothing and looked decidedly ordinary and neutral. The only thing that revealed to this guy that my friend is trans is that she hasn't done voice training. She passes perfectly fine outside of that, and so do I - we've both been on hormones and transitioning for 3-4 years.
So perhaps the crime we committed was to make him think we weren't transgender? And then he heard her voice, and felt fooled? I suppose to him, it's the end of the world if he was accidentally attracted to a trans woman if even for a second.
My friend thankfully doesn't let this kind of stuff get to her. She grew up extremely conservative (her family still has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for example) so she's always had nerves of steel to deal with everything, and I'm glad for her that she can shut this kind of stuff out. I really admire her for how strong she is and how she's able to always persevere. She's probably already forgotten about it but for me, I need to work on similarly not letting this stuff get to me. The man wasn't even talking to/about me but I think the reason I'm so upset about it is that it may just as well have been said to me.
I'm trying to focus on the good, and to not let one vile person ruin it. Because me and my friend had such a nice day together.
69 votes -
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website Kiwi Farms
22 votes -
Lesbians being anti-trans is a lesbophobic trope
45 votes -
Senator admits "Kids Online Safety Act" will target trans content online
28 votes -
US veterans discharged under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ are still fighting for justice — and benefits
28 votes -
Kansas officials are no longer required to change trans people’s birth certificates, judge says
12 votes -
Judge denies request to halt Missouri’s gender-affirming medical care ban
15 votes -
California is suing to stop schools from outing trans kids to their parents
33 votes -
Evidence undermines "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" claims
41 votes -
Brazil high court rules homophobic slurs punishable by prison
15 votes -
Why do Japanese games handle trans characters so differently?
17 votes -
Lesbian group seeks human rights exemption to exclude trans women from Melbourne event
41 votes -
The false gospel of conversion therapy: "I went to sessions every week in high school. I came out as trans anyway."
24 votes -
This is the gayest World Cup ever (and no one’s batting an eyelid)
25 votes -
Midwestern US cities become transgender health sanctuaries amid GOP legislative threats
33 votes -
Potentially faulty data spotted in surveys of drug use and other behaviors among LGBQ US youth
10 votes -
US Ninth circuit court of appeal upholds preliminary injunction against Idaho law banning transgender girls and women participation in women's sports
I haven't yet found a news article, but will add if I find one. Here is the ruling. https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/08/17/20-35813.pdf
26 votes -
Why I pumped the brakes on vanlife
16 votes -
Italy's far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign
24 votes -
Ethiopia cracks down on gay sex in hotels, bars and restaurants
30 votes -
Transgender and nonbinary patients have no regrets about top surgery, small study finds
61 votes -
Even with the reactionary backlash, trans acceptance has been the one good news in this millennium
I sorta think pretty much everything else have been a downward spirel since this millennium was kickstarted with 9/11. Just a random thought! The speed with which trans women moved from being...
I sorta think pretty much everything else have been a downward spirel since this millennium was kickstarted with 9/11. Just a random thought! The speed with which trans women moved from being perverted men to moderately tolerated members of society is staggering. Anyone here know why and when it happened?
If we look at Google Ngram for 'trans people' we see an upward curve after 2000 (the internet I guess) but it really took off somewhere after 2010.
40 votes -
US military veterans sue to reclassify sexuality-based discharge records
5 votes -
Grindr has issued a return-to-office policy requiring US staff to relocate to other cities, just two weeks after its workers announced they were unionizing
31 votes -
Rethinking the ‘gay best friend’
28 votes -
High school administrators trapped a student in a Kafkaesque nightmare. They gave her the option of being suspended or face the threat of rape and assault. Her family is now suing the school district.
51 votes -
"Body of Mine" puts users in a virtual body of a different gender
30 votes -
A Utah therapist built a reputation for helping gay Latter-day Saints. These men say he sexually abused them.
13 votes -
Jamie Lee Curtis’ bottom line on her trans daughter: "Love is love"
55 votes -
Five myths in the US House of Representatives anti-trans hearing against gender affirming care
34 votes -
Pride experiences
With a lot of parades and parties behind us, I think now is as good a time as ever to discuss 2023 Pride. What did you do? Was it different than last year, and if so, was it more or less fun?...
With a lot of parades and parties behind us, I think now is as good a time as ever to discuss 2023 Pride. What did you do? Was it different than last year, and if so, was it more or less fun?
Having experienced pride both in Israel and in Europe, I can say that this year in Tel Aviv was a very strange vibe for me. There were a lot of talks about potential terror attacks, to the point where the side streets were absolutely full of police and military. I remember walking back home from work and being unsure if I should even go.
Contrast it with Berlin, where there was such a carefree attitude and such a strong sense of unity. I experienced it as a tourist mind you, but I still wish we could have a less stressful atmosphere next year back home.
There is something to be said about the monetization of pride, but to me, just the fact that we have something to unite around is enough. When I look around and see thousands of queer people smiling, I couldn't care less about capitalism, and I only hope that next year it'll be even bigger.
26 votes