Jude Ellison S. DoyleinHuman Parts·9 hours agoMember-onlyParental WrongsStraight parents treat queer kids like property. Queer people are forbidden to parent. Is there a world beyond the violence of family? — A memory: One day, when I was about four years old, my father broke into our apartment. My mother had run away from him. She had crossed several state lines in the process. Then he showed up: Banging through the screen door, screaming. In the memory, my mother reaches for…LGBTQ13 min readLGBTQ13 min read
David Allsopp·4 hours agoBang! to RightsThe weaponising of prison statistics for anti-trans propaganda Content warning: discussion of statistics for rape and other sexual offences; transphobia, antisemitism/Nazism, racism, Islamophobia (all after the introductory ‘nutshell’ section below, however). In a nutshell… There are countless examples of “gender-critical” (i.e. anti-trans) activists citing prison statistics for transgender people, as part of their…LGBTQ12 min readLGBTQ12 min read
Adam Jesse Burns·1 day agoI was nonbinary before there was a word for meI identify as ‘it.’ Here’s how I realized my true identity. When I was a kid, wildly inhabiting the alien worlds I made of the beaches in New Zealand, I had hair down to my shoulders and people often mistook me for a girl, or, better still, a tomboy. I…LGBTQ9 min readLGBTQ9 min read
Kyle Palmer·7 hours agoMember-onlyMarianne Lalonde is Running for Alderperson in Chicago’s 46th WardEnvironmental Scientist & 2019 Runner-Up Wants Your Vote in 2023 — When I speak with Marianne Lalonde on Friday, January 6th, the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve native is suiting up. Not just to run for office but to walk her dog. Both efforts require a standard yet time-consuming Chicago practice: layering. …LGBTQ7 min readLGBTQ7 min read
Kitty WhitemoreinThe Identity Current·6 hours agoMember-onlyTransgender Women are not MonolithicDivisions in the community — I am a late transitioning transgender woman. I transitioned at fifty-six. That means that I lived a very long time in the closet. I fathered children and I lived as a man for a very long time. It was a different time I grew up as a confused kid in the seventies. There was no…LGBTQ4 min readLGBTQ4 min read
Queer Vegan Anarchist·23 hours agoNo Cops At Pride: Queer Liberation Is Incompatible With The PoliceThe 2023 Midsumma Pride March on Euro Yuroke in so-called St Kilda, Melbourne was interrupted halfway through after a group of queer activists stepped into the parade in front of the Victoria Police contingency with banners that read ‘Fuck off VicPol — cops don’t belong at pride’. The police force…LGBTQ4 min readLGBTQ4 min read
Gemma Stone·4 hours agoMember-onlyEverything you need to know about Isla Bryson, Transgender Rapists and a disgusting smear led by Scottish ToriesIsla Bryson and a handful of other transgender rapists have become major talking points in anti-trans rhetoric led by Scottish Tories who oppose the GRR Bill. It’s a disgusting smear, but sadly; its working. — Before Isla Bryson’s story hit the news I posted on Twitter about transgender rapists and the hard push by anti-trans campaigners for that rhetoric. I even said that Scottish Tories were desperately trying to make the “GRR bill protects rapists” line stick, but noted how it wasn’t having much traction…LGBTQ8 min readLGBTQ8 min read
Brian Lageose·13 hours agoMember-onlyDestination Unknown: A Deluge of Dispatches from the WastelandA collection of excerpts from my books-in-progress… — Note: This page is under construction, as I’m in the process of grouping related stories on evergreen pages. For the record, I have at least 10 different book projects percolating at various levels of development, mainly because I have a distinct inability to simply sit down and get something moved…LGBTQ2 min readLGBTQ2 min read
