LGBTQ2S+ liberation

Motor City Pride: ‘Marching toward equality’

This year’s Pride march in downtown Detroit on June 9 raised a timely slogan: “Marching toward equality.” Most lesbian, gay,…

June 13, 2013

Trans Day of Action: ‘We will not be silenced!’

The following call was issued by Trans­Justice, a political group for trans and gender nonconforming people of color. TransJustice, a…

June 13, 2013

Youth contingent adds politics to Buffalo, N.Y., Pride parade

Buffalo, N.Y. — Youth with the International Action Center carried banners and signs in the Buffalo Pride Parade on June 2.…

June 3, 2013

Gay scouts in the BSA

On May 23, 61 percent of 1,400 voting members approved a measure to allow openly gay youth to participate in…

May 30, 2013

Grief and anger flow over murder of African-American transwoman in Cleveland

Despite many gains won through decades of struggle, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities are often…

May 22, 2013

Thousands protest murder of NYC gay man

Thousands of people marched through New York's Greenwich Village the evening of May 20 to protest the murder of Mark…

May 21, 2013

First Jackie Robinson; now Jason Collins

When the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League…

May 9, 2013

Cuba’s Mariela Castro receives LGBT Equality Award

Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy…

May 9, 2013

LGBTQ+ activists denounce SF Pride Board decision against B. Manning

Carrying signs that read “I am Bradley Manning,” some 200 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied activists protested at…

May 2, 2013

Mariela Castro Espín, a leader of Cuban Revolution, hosted by the International Action Center

New York — An inspiring and electrifying meeting was held at the Solidarity Center in New York City on April…

April 26, 2013