Queer terminology
Asexual: A term describing individuals who do not experience sexual attraction or do not have interest in or desire for sex. Asexuality is different from celibacy, which means abstaining from sex. Asexuality is often...
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A Judge Ruled Doctors Can Refuse to See Patients Who Are Transgender or Had an Abortion
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor issued a strange ruling at the end of 2016. This ruling allows doctors to discriminate against patients who are transgender and women who have had abortions. I guess he thinks those...
India Opens First School For Transgender Students
Named Sahaj International School, the institution will admit ten students, aged 25-30, and help them prepare for secondary and senior secondary examinations. They will also be taught some vocational skills. Out of the ten seats, one...
Transgender Symbol Creator and Activist Holly Boswell Passes Away
Legendary transgender writer, activist, spiritual leader, and transgender symbol creator Holly Boswell passed away this weekend at the age of 67. “WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT EACH OF US, IN OUR OWN SMALL WAY,...
Is outing people really the remit of the National Trust?
After being dumped by Lord Byron in 1812, Lady Caroline Lamb re-evaluated her servants’ livery. She took a keen interest in livery. The new retainers’ outfits would feature specially engraved buttons inscribed (satirising the...
Comedian Tim Minchin rewrites iconic Australian song to protest homophobic politicians blocking marriage equality
Comedian Tim Minchin has rewritten an iconic song about Australia to launch an attack on “homophobic politicians” who are preventing the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Minchin, who is well known for his musical comedy...
LGBT activists face off with police and far-right protesters in largest St. Petersburg Pride yet
LGBT activists in Russia held the biggest Pride celebration in St. Petersburg yet despite facing off with police and far-right protesters. An estimated 100 people turned out for the eighth annual LGBT Pride in...
Queerly invisible: LGBTQ people of color and mental health
This special issue of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health on LGBTQ People of Color (POC) and Mental Health features a series of articles originally presented as a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association...
The Fear of Discrimination in LGBT Healthcare
by Brett Tortelli, MD/PhD candidate, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine For many people talking about their sex life with their doctor can be uncomfortable. When someone reveals something so intimate about his...
SEX AND GENDER (GENDER)
GENDER 10. The oppression linked to sex begins at birth, operating through the social imposition of gender. Gender is the label that feminists use to describe the value system that prescribes and proscribes forms of behaviour and appearance...
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