By: Holly Ji
To be gay and a POC means you have to prove to your “queer siblings” that your identity is just as valid and just as queer. This invalidity is a product of white supremacy.
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By: Percy Okoben
The Day of Silence was started in the 1990s by two college students as a way to show solidarity with LGBT individuals who felt silenced by the greater non-LGBT community. It has grown to have thousands of participants nationwide every year. But this year was different. This year I paid attention; not only to my own silence, but the lack of silence from others. And I was disappointed.
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By: Katie Harbaugh
If you’ve been on any form of social media lately, you’ve probably noticed that lots of people have added their pronouns to their bios. As a background, pronouns differ from person to person. Some individuals go by she/her, while others use he/him, or they/them, etc. For a long time, mainly nonbinary and transgender people put their pronouns in their bios, so people wouldn’t address them incorrectly. The problem with this is that consequently, transphobic people became more inclined to target those with pronouns in their bio.
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“Baby doll.” “Gorgeous.” “Sweet Thing.” “Will you marry me?” “Young lady are there any men here?” These are all things I have been called or asked in the three weeks I have been working in the service industry. While offensive in their own rights, as the customers were addressing them to someone who they thought was a woman, they are even more offensive since that “young lady” was in fact a queer trans boy.
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Hello, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals! My name is Percy Okoben, I use he/him and they/them pronouns, and today we’re going to be talking about being trans in the workplace because your boy just got a job *jazz hands*!
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Today we are talking about something near and dear to my heart: Hamilton. Now you may be wondering, Percy, what does this have to do with your norman topic of LGBT issues, identities, and experiences?
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Hello, guys, gals and non-binary pals. My name is Percy Okoben, I use he/him and they/them pronouns, and today we are going to be discussing the asexual identities.
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by Percy Okoben
On April 12, 2019, the United States Military began to enforce its ban on transgender individuals joining the armed forces after the ban was announced nearly two years prior in a tweet by President Donald Trump. Will no one stand up not only for my rights but those of the millions of transgender people living in the United States?
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by Violet Webster
Biphobia is perpetrated by straight or generally homophobic people, but also by members of the LGBT+ community. To clear up misconceptions (and to explain why these misconceptions are incredibly harmful to bisexual people) here they are debunked.
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by Linda Yu
LGBT rights are once again at stake in the upcoming Supreme Court term. The Supreme Court will hear three cases and decide on whether the anti-discrimination protections of the 1964 Civil Rights Act apply to gender and sexuality.
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