What would the ideal ungendered fashion collection really look like? Editor’s Note: What will the future hold for LGBTQ rights and representation?
With this year’s Beyond Pride series, Mic looks forward to seeing how the radical changes in recent years will continue to transform our culture in the worlds of politics, business, entertainment and more. You can receive all these stories in your inbox by signing up here. Genderless fashion has proven to be a difficult concept for many brands and designers to grasp.
There was that notorious ungendered fashion collection from Zara in 2016 that got torn apart by the internet. The models initially used were all thin and white, and the clothes were all oversized basics — including sweatshirts, T-shirts and sweaters, clothes that are often coded as menswear. You can learn how not to be a LGBT ally by looking at what happened at Glasgow Pride. First LGBT Unit Created to Fight ISIS in Syria. Its Name? The Queer Insurrection. LGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
A group of international volunteers fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Syria have declared the first LGBT military unit created to battle the jihadi group. 6 Signs That You Might Not Really Respect Your Transgender Loved One – Let's Queer Things Up! Originally published on Everyday Feminism.
When I first came out as transgender, I was surprised to find that many people in my life wanted to support me. I received a lot of encouraging words, often from the folks I least expected. It meant the world to me to be surrounded by people who just wanted me to be myself and be happy! In a society that can often be so hostile towards transgender people, having loved ones in our corner can make all the difference.
Dear straight allies, please don't come to pride until you've understood these 6 things - Matador Network. Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends trans student wrestler Mack Beggs in amazing takedown. This just took transphobia to the mat.
In a two-minute address posted to Facebook, Texas WFAA sportscaster Dale Hansen came to the defense of Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old trans wrestler who has been forced to compete against female wrestlers even though he identifies as male. Dailyxtra. What would you do?
Imagine for a moment that you were a gay teenager living under a regime that executes people like you. That when your family found out, they subjected you to electroshock therapy. And when you fell in love with an older man, who took advantage of you, the people in your town heard about it, beat you and ostracized you. Would you run away? CNE Installs The Best All-Gender Bathroom Signs: 'We Don't Care' While ducking into the Canadian National Exhibition's Northern Comfort Saloon on Sunday to use the facilities, I came across their new bathrooms.
It's always nice to use new bathrooms at public places like The Ex, but the doors of these portable toilets also offered a perfect response to the washroom wars that have erupted since the trans rights movement took off a few years ago. U.S. states have been passing "bathroom bills," making it illegal for trans men and women to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. An Edmonton Catholic school also prompted a trans rights policy after a seven-year-old trans girl was not allowed to use the girls' bathroom. "[It's] a cheeky way to say to our guests that we strive to be inclusive. " Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y. When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reclassified Pluto from planet to dwarf planet in 2006, it did nothing to change the fact of the existence of Pluto.
Its status, however, is an innocuous example of how science is not always an objective descriptor of reality, but an interpreter, loaded with the context of previous generations – how the Greek “planetai” and the post-Copernican “planets” were both labels to describe things that moved in the heavens, even if we realised those things weren’t actually that similar to each other on closer inspection over time. The scientific process often involves tweaking taxonomies. Humanity saw distant objects above, and the taxonomy we built was simple: two entries, one labelled “planets”, the other “stars”.
Gender reveal celebrations for babies help explain transphobia. Beautyinoddplaces/Thinkstock Like a lot of 18-month-olds, my daughter is epicene; even if she’s out on the town in, say, pink leggings and a floral raincoat, sometimes I’ll still get a “He’s so cute—how old is he?”
From a friendly stranger. (I just did, in fact, on Mother’s Day. In the stranger’s defense, we were exploring cannons at a military park. Masculine!) 'Pro Family' Conservative States Aren't Doing Squat to Make Life Easier for Families. Ok- something's been bugging me for awhile, and this is probably as close to the topic as I'm likely to find, so I'm bringing it up, shit storm be damned!
Michelle Bachmann raised a ton of foster kids- and should be commended for that. The crazy person has done some nice things in her life. But correct me if I'm wrong, and here is where the shit storm might start and I really, really am asking honestly and because it's been bugging me for awhile now- didn't she get reimbursed from the state for raising those kids, like all foster parents do? And I completely understand that it's not like she made out like a bandit and that it takes much more to raise a child than the tiny, tiny stipend they get. But I can't help but think that unless she turned down that money, she's a big ol' flippin' Tea Party rhetoric spoutin' hypocrite. I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. I Am A Transwoman.
I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. NOTE: Wow, I wrote this piece anonymously and privately and did not intend for anyone else to actually read it. Why Did Toronto's Pride Parade Shut Out the Trans March? Photos by Michael Toledano. Nick Ward is an organizer of Toronto's Trans March. So, she's quite partisan. This weekend, after years of fighting for the right to be seen and heard, thousands of people took to Yonge St. in the largest Trans March Canada has ever seen. In every meaningful sense, June 28th, 2013 was a watershed moment in Trans history. So, why has almost no one heard anything about it? The answer is Pride. It should astonish everyone (except trans people, who are used to this kind of thing) that the Trans March receives zero financial support from Pride Toronto Inc.
The fact that one of the wealthiest members of InterPride / WorldPride contributes absolutely nothing to this community event is disgraceful. Community members had been asking for support for years, but had been dismissed with bureaucratic excuses from Pride Festival officials who claimed that "The city won't give a permit", "the timing isn't right", or that "the police won't allow it. " Previously: How to Be a Better Ally to Trans Folks in Four Steps « In Our Words. By: Rebecca Kling When I first came out to my parents as transgender, at around fourteen, I had a lot of unspoken questions: What did wanting to be a girl mean, when the whole world thought I was a boy? Could I ever be happy? How would this change our relationships? And, perhaps most important of all, how would transitioning from being a boy to being a girl work?
Kathleen Massara: It's Still Not Easy Being a Tomboy. I read Ruth Padawer's article about gender fluidity in children in the New York Times Magazine this past weekend, and I was struck by her lack of understanding of GLBT lives. She writes about "pink boys" (her label for boys who wear feminine dress) and attempts to understand how a group of supportive parents deal with the "middle space" their sons occupy. Leland Bobbé's Half-Drag Photos Show New York's Drag Queens In And Out Of Makeup. In his Half-Drag series, New York photographer Leland Bobbé captures the two sides of the city's drag queens -- the extravagantly made-up drag divas and the organic men that lie beneath. Bobbé tells Huffington Post Gay Voices, "Through the power of hair and makeup these men are able to completely transform themselves and find their female side while simultaneously showing their male side.
" Shockingly, the identities are composed in camera and are not separate images joined during editing. Bobbé posted the first portrait of the Half-Drag series on his blog last March, writing, "I got great feedback on the image so I decided to reach out to other drag queens using Facebook as my main means of communication... Being a White Ally During Baltimore's Uprising You can't escape coverage of the escalating protests in Baltimore this week. Headlines declare it, radios buzz about it, people tweet nonstop on it. The spectrum of opinions on this movement varies greatly, perhaps depending on a number of factors such as age, gender, race, geographical location and job. I live in North Carolina, a few hours south of Baltimore, in a state no stranger to race discussions and historical oppression. I have watched these events with great interest, but one of the most disheartening effects for me is the responses I see from friends and strangers on social media. One Million Moms Condemns JCPenney Again For Same-Sex Mother's Day Catalog Photo.
Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron (CCOKC) Don’t say “gay” - say “Takei”! Posted by Tom Megginson | 19-05-2011 20:47 | Category: Human rights George Takei, who for many years played Mr. Sulu in Star Trek, came out as a proud homosexual man in 2005, and has been a gay pride activist ever since. How to talk about Caitlyn Jenner: a guide to speaking and writing about transgender people. Caitlyn Jenner, the woman formerly known as Bruce Jenner, just revealed herself on the cover of Vanity Fair. This transgender woman's coming-out is a major moment in pop culture history. This Is Why Everyone Cheering Gay Marriage Should Stand With the White House "Heckler" Now - 17 Photos Reveal Why LGBTQ People of Color of Are #NotTooProudToFight During Pride Month. On June 28, 1969, a series of skirmishes began at the Stonewall Inn — a popular gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village — when patrons were confronted and harassed by police officers during a bar raid.
After officers arrested and "manhandled" some patrons for disorderly conduct, onlookers decided to fight back. Thirteen people were arrested that morning, but the uprising continued for several days, during which people "smashed windows," "uprooted parking meters" and "frightened policemen. " The LGBTQ liberation movement in the United States was birthed out of struggle, not merriment. And despite the popularity of people like Harvey Milk, who have been lauded as iconic gay figures, it was not a movement catalyzed by white gay men alone; cisgender and transgender women fought for liberation, too. Transgender women of color in particular played a prominent role, especially during the Stonewall Uprising. We fight for women, especially trans women and women of color. First Female U.S. Astronaut, Sally Ride, Comes Out In Obituary.
This Selfie Campaign Shows the Sheer Absurdity of Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills.