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UK Equality Regulator Claims Transgender Rights Never Existed

UK Equality Regulator Claims Transgender Rights Never Existed

The equality regulator now seeks to erase trans rights past, present, and future
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Kaylin Hamilton
Struggling To Make Up My Mind on the Over-Commercialization of Pride

Struggling To Make Up My Mind on the Over-Commercialization of Pride

Something is changing about Pride month here in Italy…
Go to the profile of Giulio Serafini
Giulio Serafini
What They Don’t Tell You About Queer Poly Love and Booty Shorts

What They Don’t Tell You About Queer Poly Love and Booty Shorts

Love Like This: My journey to love and family
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Andy Curtiss
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Is Transgender the New ANTIFA?

Is Transgender the New ANTIFA?

Maybe, with time, the bigots will move on to their next fabricated target.
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Rand Bishop
What the Law Allowed: Bayard, Walter, and the Shape of Queer Love

What the Law Allowed: Bayard, Walter, and the Shape of Queer Love

Bayard Rustin taught the world nonviolence. His love story taught me something just as brave.
Go to the profile of Ezra Kidowski
Ezra Kidowski
What If Kurt Was Claire? A Transfeminine Reading of Kurt Cobain

What If Kurt Was Claire? A Transfeminine Reading of Kurt Cobain

Claire Cobain might not be fiction — just someone history never gave a voice.
Go to the profile of A.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)
A.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)
Razor Blades & a Coca-Cola for “Rachel”, Shopping for My Trans Self

Razor Blades & a Coca-Cola for “Rachel”, Shopping for My Trans Self

A calling to find myself and the friends I deserve too
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Rachel Addison
Why Is Pride Dangerous Again?

Why Is Pride Dangerous Again?

How showing up became an act of resistance again
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Gino Cosme
How I Became the Queer, Capable Adult in Every Room… at the Age of 15

How I Became the Queer, Capable Adult in Every Room… at the Age of 15

The empathy engine
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Andy Curtiss
Discovering Queer Chicago

Discovering Queer Chicago

A beach read starter pack for LGBTQIA+ history
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Dan Kipp
My Trans Liberation from Enforced Womanhood

My Trans Liberation from Enforced Womanhood

Or, how feminism, including transfeminism, is always about choice
Go to the profile of Alexander Petrovnia
Alexander Petrovnia
Harry Potter and the TERF of Terror

Harry Potter and the TERF of Terror

Who is Robert Galbraith and why is he so obsessed with toilets?
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Still Alex
A Crosswalk, My Small Town, and the Anti-Queer Politics of Public Space

A Crosswalk, My Small Town, and the Anti-Queer Politics of Public Space

How erasing a Pride crosswalk in one small town in Maryland is a harbinger of things to come.
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Dr. TJ West
Pronouns Aren’t the Problem

Pronouns Aren’t the Problem

How anti-trans reactionaries deceive us
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Laura Westford
What Is Malta’s History of Queer Rights?

What Is Malta’s History of Queer Rights?

The back-and-forth, but mainly progressive history of queer rights in Malta
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Max Micallef
Homophobia: A Human Defect, Not a Natural Law

Homophobia: A Human Defect, Not a Natural Law

Looking more honestly at the world beyond our moral constructs.
Go to the profile of Júlia Rosell Saldaña
Júlia Rosell Saldaña
Her Lady, Her Princess: Episode 4

Her Lady, Her Princess: Episode 4

The alliance
Go to the profile of Torshie Torto
Torshie Torto
Nothing Different at Pride in Regina, Saskatchewan for 2025

Nothing Different at Pride in Regina, Saskatchewan for 2025

Celebration in the face of threats
Go to the profile of Esther Spurrill-Jones
Esther Spurrill-Jones
Gay in the Exam Room

Gay in the Exam Room

What happens when queer folks need healthcare
Go to the profile of Lindsay Redifer
Lindsay Redifer
The Demon Cheerleader: A Gay Teen’s Horror Story

The Demon Cheerleader: A Gay Teen’s Horror Story

On becoming what you fear
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Evan Purcell
The Shaker Seed Box Man Was So Much More Than a Dying Gay Man

The Shaker Seed Box Man Was So Much More Than a Dying Gay Man

How a family friend taught me about joy
Go to the profile of Anna Shadley
Anna Shadley
A Different Kind of Pride: Honoring Barbara Jordan’s Quiet Truth

A Different Kind of Pride: Honoring Barbara Jordan’s Quiet Truth

Her voice defended the Constitution. Her love lived in the margins. This Pride, we pause to honor a titan whose quiet truth stayed in …
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Ezra Kidowski
A Parade and the Non-King

A Parade and the Non-King

A poem
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Patsy Starke
Why Is A Lesbian More Frightening Than a Pedophile?

Why Is A Lesbian More Frightening Than a Pedophile?

I was always afraid to revisit ‘Notes on a Scandal’
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James Patrick Nelson
What Trump’s America Means for the LGBTQ+ Community

What Trump’s America Means for the LGBTQ+ Community

The rise of Christian Nationalism and the erosion of LGBTQ+ Rights: A warning from history
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Josh Powell
Her Lady, Her Princess: Episode 3

Her Lady, Her Princess: Episode 3

The spy
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Torshie Torto
Some People Are Trans, Get Over It! And Lots of Inspiring Pride Stories.

Some People Are Trans, Get Over It! And Lots of Inspiring Pride Stories.

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 15 June 2025
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James Finn
Growing Up Gay in The Grove

Growing Up Gay in The Grove

Queer narrative reflection from inside the closet of my youth
Go to the profile of Matthew Bamberg
Matthew Bamberg
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