Category: Inclusion

Dolezal’s white-to-black “passing” is unfamiliar to most merely because those racial boundaries are not policed as strictly as “black-to-white.” Moreover, most people, black or white, cannot fathom why a racially privileged person would want to pass as a member of a marginalized group.

Many trans critics of the Vanity Fair cover have stated how Jenner’s photo-op as a 1940’s and 50’s glam pin-up doll feeds into the heterosexist gaze and voyeuristic fixation concerning trans bodies and appearances that objectifies and sexualizes them, and also contributes to the violence and discrimination they confront.

For nearly four decades now the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice continues to empower a multi-gendered, racial and identified international network of talented grassroots LGBTQI leaders and activists working within their communities.

The intolerance of a multicultural theme for this holiday has little to do with a heightened renewal of the birth of Christ or the fading of an American tradition. Instead, it has much to do about a backlash toward a country growing more religiously pluralistic.

Just as Matthew Shepard’s death galvanized a nation, Trayvon Martin’s death is doing the same.

The Supreme Court rulings force LGBTQ people of color, like myself, to reside in a bifurcated reality in terms of full civil rights protections.

“Conversion” therapies are acts of rhetorical violence

Segments of our population will attend separate Black, Asian, and Latino Gay Pride events in search of the unity that is the hallmark of Pride.

untold numbers of hate crimes against LGBTQ people of color not only went unreported in mainstream papers, they also rarely saw the light of day in queer ones as well.

Joyner, pits one disenfranchised group against another.