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Harper’s Magazine Claims They Can Change Stormé DeLarverie to a “He”
Honoring a Queen—The Marsha Johnson Story
Landmark Case in the Fight to Protect Nonconforming Youth
by Julia D. Robertson, journalist and award-winning author, and William J. Malone, M.D., endocrinologist and NYU alumnus *This article has been updated to include December 1
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Cartoon: Lesbian Coping Mechanisms. “Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
“Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
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Landmark Case in the Fight to Protect Nonconforming Youth
by Julia D. Robertson, journalist and award-winning author, and William J. Malone, M.D., endocrinologist and NYU alumnus *This article has been updated to include December 1
When Day of the Dead is Every Day — An All Hallows’ Eve Story
It’s that time of year again. The time where we celebrate ghosts and goblins, and all things that go bump in the night. Yet, for
Lesbian Playwright Canceled By Thought Police
“This tactic of ‘activists’—threatening livelihoods, careers, dragging names through the mud—is used as a warning shot to others to stay in line.”
Lesbian Icon Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis died 20 years ago, at age 101. She worked hard to open doors for lesbians. On the anniversary of her death, I can’t help but wonder what she’d think of all the doors slamming shut on lesbians today.
Martha Shelley — The Lesbian Who Proposed a Unified Front After Stonewall
Martha Shelley doesn’t care how people remember her. What she cares about is doing what’s right, right now. Born in Brooklyn, in 1943, Shelley grew