If you’re a lesbian, or a sensible person of any other sexual orientation, you’ll already know that the word ‘dyke’ should not be used lightly. If you don’t know what you can and cannot say when it comes to derogatory queer terms, ‘dyke’ is a slang word for lesbian – often those of us who present masculine, butch or androgynous.
The LGBT and abortion rights movements in Northern Ireland have vowed to fight in solidarity to win the same rights as people in the rest of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland. While women’s rights campaigners celebrated the Republic overturning its longstanding ban on abortion in a historic referendum last month…
On November 18, 1977, Harvey Milk distributed a secret tape recording to a select network of close friends: “To be played only in the event of my death by assassination,” the audio began: “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door,” the statement concluded.
With LGBTQ Pride Month beginning June 1 — a month chosen to honor the history of activism epitomized by the Stonewall Riots of June 1969 — celebrants around the world will be getting ready for parades and other tributes. Symbols such as the rainbow flag and the pink triangle will abound; for example…
“California taxpayers are taking a stand against bigotry.” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Friday that California will ban state-funded travel to Oklahoma because of a new law that allows private agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples.
The words are tender and passionate, describing in raw detail the powerful emotions felt by one of the world’s best-loved composers. But until now some of the letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in which he tells of his sexual desires, have been hidden from the world because the objects of those desires were other men.
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