By Alex Temblador Jennifer Schenk and her wife Amy Syres met while working for an orphanage organization in Haiti 6 years ago. They fell in love, started dating, and decided to leave the organization to start their own: Second Mile Haiti, a non-profit that aims for family preservation in Haiti. After beginning Second Mile Haiti, […]
By Henry Amador-Batten Many moons ago I caught myself in a moment that felt oddly as natural as it did surreal. I was writing baby shower invitations to celebrate the upcoming birth of my Godson. What should have easily been one of my life’s most joyous moments was casually diluted by the fact that […]
By The Lesbian Avengers 25 We did it and we’ll do it again. Since the November election, white supremacists, anti-gay activists and hardcore misogynists have come out in the open, trying to reverse the legal gains of the last two decades, and harassing us and attacking us in the flesh. One group fighting back is Lesbian […]
A Christmas present may come early this year — HB2 is set to be repealed by the North Carolina legislature! North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory called for a special legislation session to be held on Wednesday to repeal HB2, also known as the “bathroom bill,” which prevented anti-discrimination legislation in cities throughout the state for […]
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Arkansas ruled that the state can refuse to allow non-bio lesbian mothers to be listed on their children’s birth certificates. The case was brought to Arkansas’ Supreme Court by three lesbian couples and moms who argued that being denied the ability to list both parents on birth certificates violated […]
Originally published on The Seattle Lesbian If your aim is to promote and build respect and understanding toward LGBTQ people at your school or college, don’t worry if you don’t have the backing of an organized LGBTQ group or gay-straight alliance to work with. Often, the best kind of awareness is raised by starting small, […]
With the way 2016 has gone, it’s great to hear that there are places around the world that are doing wonderful things for the LGBT community — such as Malta. On December 5th, the island nation became the first country in Europe to ban gay conversion therapy! Malta’s parliament passed the Affirmation of Sexual […]
A lesbian couple in Mexico have shared a sad story of discrimination with Mexican news outlets recently — their children were denied access to three different schools on account of the mothers’ same-sex marriage. Martha and her partner decided to keep their names confidential to protect their family’s and children’s identities. The mothers filed a […]
Jame Shawlin and his four-year-old son were recently shopping at Floor & Decor. He had just returned a faulty stone that he was using to finish a fireplace and was checking boxes for cracks and breakages. A store manager saw what he was doing and approached him in a way that indicated he was not […]
Texas State Representative Konni Burton has proposed Senate Bill 242, a bill that if turned into a law would require Texas schools to out LGBT students to their parents. Burton’s chief of staff, Elliott Griffin, told the Houston Chronicle that the bill was “written in response to the Fort Worth school district issuing new guidelines […]
