Today I want to celebrate all the persons who are fightg for a world where lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people n live ee om vlence and discrimatn. Thanks to the arduo work of LGBTIQ+ human rights fenrs, we have seen many posive chang around the world: crimalizatn of nsensual same-sex relatns, the adoptn of laws protectg LGBTIQ+ persons om discrimatn, regnn of the genr inty of trans persons, marriage equaly, and measur to bat hate crim, harmful practic and advance social and enomic cln.
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PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
<strong>The long read</strong>: A police raid on a gay bar New York led to the birth of the Pri movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights go back much further than that * lgbt rage day *
But nsir my posn: As someone om “the Rabow State” (Hawaii) who is now the edor--chief of this gay se, I have always been surround by rabows and expected to not only embrace them, but have them on my driver’s license, my cloth, all manner of accsori, and pecially my Zoom background durg every panel I do. — Sarah Burke“Gay Anthems” at “Gay Functns”We’ve all been there. I love the artists as much as the next queer, but there’s somethg irratg about the obssn wh rercg the “gayns” of the party by playg so-lled “gay anthems.
” Can’t we jt be gay, whout needg every aspect of our spac to scream ? — Cáne LópezPraisg Straight People as “Gay Ins”I mean, I get , but now that we’re movg to a time when more and more celebri are out, let’s retire the need to praise straight women for makg mic to bump gay bars. Sometim cishet women’s relatnship to queerns n be toxic and jt downright weird — you know, “the gays love me” kd of women — and I feel like the “in” label fuels that fire.
We’ve even found that some turn out to be extremely homophobic as well. — Samantha Allen“Be Gay Do Crime”Let’s get one thg straight: I love crime.