LGBTQ

Study on poverty shows LGBTQ people need jobs!

By Imani Henry and Johnnie Lewis The societal myth that the vast majority of LGBTQ-identified people in the U.S. are…

June 26, 2013

WW salutes LGBTQ heroes B. Manning & CeCe McDonald

Pride annually honors and commemorates the 1969 Stonewall rebellion, when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, primarily people of color,…

June 26, 2013

Pride marchers demand transgender rights

Syracuse, N.Y — CNY Solidarity marched loud and proud at Central New York Pride on June 15. Youth activists organized and…

June 18, 2013

Anti-war, queer liberation forces link hands at Pride

To the cheers of thousands, queer liberation, anti-war, and Pfc. B. Manning contingents marched in united fashion with the International…

June 13, 2013

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

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

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

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

Boston St. Pat’s Peace Parade draws anti-war, labor, LGBTQ forces

Boston — Tens of thousands of onlookers saluted the 3rd annual St. Patrick’s Peace Parade in working-class South Boston on March…

March 19, 2013