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Featured is the LGBT Pride flag. (Photo credit: MONIRUL BHUIYAN/AFP via Getty Images) A federal judge in a high-profile Title IX case has ordered lawyers representing four girls’ track stars to refer to two biological males who outraced them as “transgender females.” The lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom who represent the four high school girls […]… Continue reading Judge in Female Athletes’ Case Forbids Calling Trans Competitors ‘Males’ — Randy Salars News And Comment

Pride is an annual celebration commemorate the Stonewall riots and gay rights movement, pivotal moments in history connected to gay liberation. Pride is inclusive to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT+) community as well as allies of the community. The Stonewall riots began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raided the… Continue reading What you should know about Pride — Penny Lane Hippy

Anna’s Country: A LesbianLove Story Elizabeth Lang the Naiad Press 1981 Arriving in a small town in Upper New York State with her husband and children, Anna Johnson is befriended by her neighbor, nursery owner Hope Alford. When Anna is brutalized by her husband it is to Hope that she flees for shelter, tries to […]… Continue reading Anna’s Country: A Lesbian Love Story — Frauenkultur

I had an awful time in high school, and all the while, on the inside, I was struggling with my internal homophobia. via I Denied My Sexuality And My Happiness To Fit In, But I’m Done With That — Stigma Breakers

Kristy Leigh takes a scholarly look at three of the films in the 1990s that presented transgender characters as not just freakish beings who defied gender norms but began to move toward more diversity for transgender characters. The films she discusses are “Paris is Burning”, “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, and “The… Continue reading Cinema of Ambiguity: Transgender Imagery in the 1990s — Transgender Forum

Our social correspondent Lynda Martini is back with us today. Since no one has a social life now, at least in the real world, she has submitted a blog that reports on her recent gender confirmation surgery. She has some “interesting facts” about what to expect when you have your GCS, and lays them out… Continue reading Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gender Confirmation Surgery (But were afraid to ask) — Transgender Forum

What’s in TWIT? Today we learn a trans man high school senior is the class valedictorian. More violence against trans women of color occurs. Court battles over confirmation surgery for prisoners, protections for LGBTQ people, sensitivity training for police, and other things continues. Little Richard dies and he started in show biz as a drag… Continue reading The Week In Trans 5/11/20 — Transgender Forum

Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dead at 73 Influential keyboardist and electronic music pioneer dies following short battle with cancer Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist of the influential German electronic music group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73. Ellen Poppinga – K & K/Redferns/Getty Images Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist of the influential German […]… Continue reading Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dies at 73 — Bobby Bounce

It’s been 15 years since writer-director Alice Wu’s last film, SAVING FACE, but she’s back with a bang with a new twist on an old story that just took home the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. In THE HALF OF IT, Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis, TV’s NANCY DREW) […]… Continue reading Movie Review: The Half of It — Howard For Film

Okay, so using Alex Jones is absolutely cheating. I realize that. He’s nuttier than squirrel shit. But in all reality – he’s the poster child for conspiracy. He’s the dude who started the whole “Sandy Hook was an inside job” rumor, that led to those poor families going through even more hell than they already […]… Continue reading The Three C’s. COVID, Conspiracy, Cunts. — Musings of a Caffeine Addicted IT Guy Stuck in a Small Windowless Office.