Ireland was one of the last countries to decriminalize homosexuality and the first to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote. Celebrate this historic feat for marriage equality with history’s most beautiful LGBTQ love letters – including Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Mead, Eleanor Roosevelt, Allen Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and more.
Virginia Woolf on why the best mind is androgynous.
A century later, psychologists confirmed this.
Remarkable interactive infographic project from The Guardian explores LGBT rights around the world. In nearly 80 counties – populated by 2.7 billion people – it is illegal to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, and in at least five of them the “crime” is punishable by death.
Check out the project site to look closer and take action, then see Andrew Sullivan’s pioneering 1993 treatise on the politics of homosexuality, Edie Windsor on what equality really means, and history’s most beautiful LGBT love letters.
In her Self-Evident Truths project, iO Tillett Wright is photographing 10,000 people who identify as anywhere on the LGBTQ spectrum, then setting up a photographic installation at the National Mall, in front of the Washington Monument, and staging a march on Washington.
Pair with history’s most moving and timelessly beautiful LGBTQ love letters, including Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Mead, Allen Ginsberg, and more.
(via Feministing)
Dear Judy,
I am a girl in seventh grade and I have a funny feeling about one of my teachers. I am afraid I might be in love with her or something. My friend says she feels that way about her cousin. I’ll bet a lot of girls — and boys — feel this way. Could you please write a book about it?
Thank you.
P.S. You don’t have to. Maybe it is only me who feels this way.
Apparently, people who hate on interracial and same-sex families still exist. When they unleashed their bile on a Honey Maid ad celebrating modern families, the company came up with this enormously heartening response.
“Road Trips” by New Yorker artist Adrian Tomine, from New York Drawings.
Shortly after Uganda criminalized homosexuality (and the country’s first lady made such gobsmacking remarks as arguing that “if cows can’t be gay, then humans can definitely not be gay”), the U.S. government takes a stance by suspending programs that might endanger the LGBTQ community.
Also, fact-check: cows can be gay.
We call it “finding meaning” but we might better call it “forging meaning.”
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Stories are the foundation of identity. We forge meaning and build identity.
Every one of us, every human life, represents a negotiation between public and private identity.
A magnificent speech by Lana Wachowski, trans* director of The Matrix and recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award, on visibility and invisibility, gender, and life in a society that clings all too tightly to its limiting categories of identity.
Pair with Susan Sontag on how the male vs. female stereotypes and polarities imprison us and Andrew Solomon on “horizontal” vs. “vertical” identity.
(* Watch for Wachowski’s poignant parenthetical about the term.)
For a truly modern Valentine’s Day, history’s most beautiful and timelessly bewitching LGBTQ love letters – including ones from Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Allen Ginsberg, Margaret Mead, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Edith Windsor on love and the truth about equality – a typographic homage by Debbie Millman, painstakingly made by hand with gold leaf and felt letters on hand-quilted felt.
Prints available here, benefiting SAGE, a nonprofit providing support and care for LGBTQ senior citizens.