Missouri Teenagers Protest a Transgender Student’s Use of Girls' Bathroom
Ashley Diamond, Transgender Georgia inmate, released early from prison
"Her release does not erase her barbaric treatment by GDC officials, which was tantamount to torture. Nor is her plight isolated. We will continue to advocate for an end to prison practices that unfairly punish and inflict pain on transgender inmates.” -- Chinyere Ezie, Southern Poverty Law Center staff attorney
Only 1 in 5 Gay Teen Boys Gets Tested for HIV
Black Trans Lives Matter rally takes over Underground Atlanta
Gay Refugees Address U.N. Security Council in Historic Meeting on LGBT Rights
"Members of the LGBT community really fear persecution as they watch these horrendous sights of people being hurled off buildings…they won’t come out and request protection because they’re too afraid to tell anyone.”
Subhi Nahas, a gay Syrian refugee, speaks at the United Nations headquarters in New York, August 24. The U.N. Security Council held its first-ever meeting on LGBT rights on Monday. Photo: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS
LGBT groups to Obama: Private prison not safe for transgender women
Gay and Marked for Death
“The Iraqi refugee I interviewed told me that on social media earlier this year, he saw images of a rooftop execution and learned later that the victim — unrecognizable because he was blindfolded and shown mostly from behind — was a friend of his who hadn’t left Iraq.”
Photo from The Daily Mail: Two ISIS militants wait for an order to throw the men over the edge of the building.
#BlackLivesMatter unveils Campaign Zero
The comprehensive set of policy demands on the federal and state level introduced by Black Lives Matter activists on Friday, named Campaign Zero, comes after months of discussions with protesters from across the country and was informed by the recommendations of President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
New survey measures LGBT friendliness of college athletics
LGBT advocates are 2-for-2 in fighting religious freedom laws.
Civil Rights Leader, Julian Bond, has died
Small Legal Gains Signal Big Leap For LGBT Rights In Africa
Legal experts say the victories “represent significant progress on human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and have broader implications with regard to countries’ obligations to uphold basic rights” of those who live in the margins.
Zambian gay rights activist Paul Kasonkomona leaving magistrate court.
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Open now! Needs assessment survey for transgender people living with HIV/AIDS
"Gay and Gray Summit" highlights LGBT Aging in the Midwest
Obama Releases Updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy
NY Times: Struggling for Gay Equality in the South
Boy Scouts of America ends national ban on gay adults
The Queers Left Behind: How LGBT Assimilation Is Hurting Our Community's Most Vulnerable
An opinion piece by Colin Walmsley for The Huffington Post
“So while love may have won for middle and upper class gays, many transgender people, queer people of color and queer homeless youth instead find themselves left behind by a community that has become increasingly defined by the interests of its white, cisgender, middle and upper class members.”
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