startrek.com
Star Trek’s Queer Fluidity Has Been Giving Fans The Future They Deserve
5 min · · Why wouldn’t queer fans feel connected to characters that made them feel included? · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
The New Inquiry
Final Fantasy
18+ min · · Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
torforgeblog.com
Ready to Go on a Grand Adventure in Space…?
4 min · · Love is love, especially in space. Today, we're bringing you some of our favorite SFF titles that feature LGBTQ+ characters on intergalactic adventures. · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
opensocietyfoundations.org
A Revolution in Roma Representation
2 min · · Open Society Foundations Community Youth Fellow Joci Marton is challenging how LGBTI Roma are perceived by outsiders—and themselves. · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
HuffPost
I'm 57 Years Old And My Father Just Disowned Me For Being Gay
7 min · · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
The Advocate
Why Walt Whitman, 'America's Poet,' Was a Queer Pioneer
3 min · · What Is the Grass author Mark Doty and Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown discuss the gay poet's legacy. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Tablet Magazine
Transgendering Stonewall: Gay Rights Join the Victimhood Olympics
· Was Anne Frank “bisexual?” Keen to claim her as one of their own, some queer activists are citing previously overlooked passages from the complete and unabridged second edition of Frank’s diary as… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
Pew Research Global
Views of Homosexuality Around the World
10 min · · Despite major changes in LGBT rights around the world, acceptance of homosexuality remains sharply divided by country, region and economic development. · Shared by 93, including Juan Cole, Rick Powell, Jose Luis Calvo
blockclubchicago.org
Little Jim’s, The First Gay Bar In Boystown, Closing For Good
4 min · · Often described as the gay "Cheers," Little Jim’s opened in 1975 and was the first gay bar in Boystown and the second-oldest gay bar in Chicago. · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
New York Magazine
When Is It Time to Claim Victory in the Gay Rights Struggle?
11+ min · · The last major obstacle to civil equality was toppled this week — by another Republican-appointed justice. · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
The Bulwark
Supreme Court Rules on Sex Discrimination. “But Gorsuch” Hardest Hit.
5 min · · Note: This article includes drag queen themes and graphic images. The Supreme Court ruling to protect Americans from being fired for their sexuality is the latest betrayal that degrades family,… · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
vol1brooklyn.com
On the Origins of Queer Autofiction: A Review of Dorothy Strachey’s “Olivia”
4 min · · In the introduction to her short autobiographical novel Olivia, the newly rereleased lesbian classic published anonymously by the Bloomsbury Group in 1949, fifteen years after her friend André Gide… · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
Quillette
Homophobia and the Modern Trans Movement
12+ min · · Two and a half years ago, I spoke in Vancouver at Q2Q: A Symposium on Queer Theatre and Performance. After I delivered my paper, I became a focal point for criticism—though not because of my the… · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
thevelvetchronicle.com
Why is the Media Trying to Erase the Word Lesbian?
4 min · · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
nauvoo.com
The Hypocrites of Homosexuality
18+ min · · This essay was published in February of 1990, in the following context: The Supreme Court had declared in 1986 (Bowers v. Hardwick) that a Georgia law prohibiting sodomy even in the privacy of one's… · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
HISTORY
7 Surprising Facts About the Stonewall Riots and the Fight for LGBT Rights
5 min · · The struggle for LGBT rights dates at least as far back as 1924 and accelerated in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell