It didn’t seem to matter to users of Instagram who descended upon the profile of legendary Italian designer Valentino after a photo was posted of model Michael Bailey Gates tastefully nude, holding a luxury handbag.
The photo racked up nearly 9,000 comments within 24 hours, mostly from people expressing staunch disapproval, threatening to unfollow or posting emoji’s of vomiting. “Sick of this gender confusion crap!” said one user. “Stop poisoning our children with the new generation with these horrendous thoughts and campaigns that go against nature. BIG UNFOLLOW!” said another. …
Gloria Hemingway’s story, for many transgender people, is all too familiar.
Born in 1931, the youngest Daughter of famed author Ernest Hemingway remained locked in a lifelong battle of rejection, abandonment and consequentially became mired by alcoholism to cope with the extreme mental anguish she suffered. Her story is a tragedy, to be certain, and although she died alone in a jail cell back in 2001, what little media coverage she was offered in both life and death is rife with dead-naming, misgendering and headlines produced solely to induce shock.
You may not have heard of Sarah O’Connell before, but she’s without question one of the hardest working, self made talk show hosts and presenters on YouTube.
Via her YouTube channel, O’Connell, a London native, has interviewed some the biggest names in the entertainment industry as one of the first openly transgender women to host her own chat show. …
Too many people still believe racism must be as blatant as hurling the N-Word to be considered an act of racism.
The fact is, racism is far more nuanced and often entrenched in an individuals deeply seated comfort with their own inherited privilege and experiences via their whiteness. For centuries, white people have been conditioned in every area of their lives to expect their own race to be a non-issue; An aspect of their identity that has never and will never factor into their journey through life. There evolved an engrained acceptance among their own, whether conscious or not, that…
It wasn’t long after I began dating Jack that he disappeared one evening into the bathroom and emerged in lingerie.
He stood before me proudly, a crooked grin across his face as I stared at him speechless. It took me by surprise, to say the least, to see him doused in pink colored lace and satin when it contradicted everything he had represented himself as throughout the short period we dated.
I believe strongly in acceptance; Of breaking the construct of gender rules and living fearlessly, but I also believe in honesty and full disclosure when embarking on a shared…
This disgraced former host has a dark history of using the UK morning show to aggressively air his grievances toward minorities.
Within the Trans and non-binary community, the television show Good Morning Britain became known for its sinister peddling of ignorance, abuse, and intolerance toward non-cis people. With Piers Morgan as the mouthpiece, their pattern evolved into a regularly scheduled assault of the rights and equalities of trans people postured as a logical debate. However, the agenda of producers and Morgan to indelibly impede the ability for trans and non-binary identifying people to thrive in general society became blatantly obvious…
Notorious Anti-Trans Activist Graham Linehan have been invited to the floor of Parliament to speak on “Cancel Culture.”
After years of subjecting transgender user of Twitter to harassment, mocking, baseless attacks and bullying resulting in his permanent suspension, the disgraced television writer has been extended the distinguished honor of discussing “Cancel Culture” to Parliamentarians in the House of Lords.
Over the last four years, Linehan developed a disturbing, radical fixation with transgender women and devoted his entire social media timeline to perpetuating dangerous lies and misinformation regarding the transgender community. The persistent, relentless arrows fired over the bough of his…
The first time I was called a Faggot, I was seven years old. I didn’t know what it meant, like so many gender diverse children who deviated from what was considered acceptable demonstrably “normal” gender characteristics.
My wrists were too limp, my walk too swishy, I squealed when I laughed and later it would be anything else from my choice in clothing to the predominantly female company I kept that drew the darkest reactions from those who would hate me without knowing me. The slurs, over time, expanded with their own exposure to them- words they picked up from parents…
Georgia’s QAnon darling. Marjorie Taylor Greene is in the news once again.
The conspiracy loving congresswoman and self declared Trump acolyte took to the floor of Congress to oppose the Equality Act that would ensure the rights of LGBTQ Americans could not be debated and contested any further after former President, Donald Trump, sought to remove civil rights, obstruct fair and equal access to quality healthcare and legalize discrimination in favor of religion- in spite of the constitution.
“Camp Boomerang is a private, membership-only RV park/campground that allows only ‘guys’. A ‘guy,’ in terms of this discussion, is defined as a person with a penis, presents himself as male and has a state-issued ID that says ‘male’,” owner Bryan Quinn wrote on Facebook.
The campground, which is due to open next summer in Orleans, Michigan, has become the target of justified criticism by publicly- and proudly- confessing their intent to discriminate against the trans masculine community.
“We understand this statement, unfortunately, may not make everyone happy, but feel it needs to be clarified. It is our hope that…
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