Pre-Stonewall Level in Eastern Europe
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View ArticleThe Forgotten Origins of the Modern Gay Rights Movement in WWI
Embed from Getty Images — One of the World War I’s most enduring legacies is largely forgotten: It sparked the modern gay rights movement. Gay soldiers who survived the bloodletting returned home...
View ArticleTrump Administration Missing-In-Positive-Action at Pride Time
Embed from Getty Images — This post is the opinion of the the author and does not necessarily represent The Good Men Project. As many of us commemorate the 48th anniversary of the historic Stonewall...
View ArticleAndrea Gibson: Orlando
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View ArticleTen Gay Refugees From Uganda Settled in Iceland
Embed from Getty Images — Making good on a promise made last year, the Icelandic government has settled ten queer Ugandan refugees just outside of Reykjavík. RÚV reports that the refugees arrived a...
View Article5 Steps to Supporting Your Son After He Comes Out of the Closet
RSVP to join weekly calls on Conscious Intersectionality One mother’s story of unconditional love and support for her gay son, coming out and going forward. — My son is gay. I am not sure I have ever...
View ArticleMy Exemplary, Everyday Marriage
When Tom Forrister transitioned from female to male, his same-sex marriage became a federally recognized, ‘traditional’ marriage. The one constant was the bond he shared with his wife. On a cool June...
View Article‘Boy Erased’ – Why Conversion Therapies and Ex-Gay Ministries Should Be Outlawed
Gerald Walton, Lakehead University “Pray the gay away” is shorthand for Christian programs that, disguised as love, purport that God heals homosexuality. Through the lens of sexual sin, homosexuality...
View ArticleThe Certain Way We’re Raising Our Kids
My spouse is genderqueer, and my kids are LGBTQ. That sentence seems so simple to me, but I never realized what a conundrum it pressed onto my spouse’s psyche. My spouse often worries that family...
View ArticleThe Mormon Church Still Doesn’t Accept Same-Sex Couples—Even If It No Longer...
Taylor Petrey, Kalamazoo College Top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have reversed a policy that prevented minor children of same-sex married couples from joining the church...
View ArticleBrunei Wants to Punish Gay Sex with Death by Stoning—Can Boycotts Stop It?
Paula Gerber, Monash University The sultan of Brunei has been on the throne for 52 years, making him the second-longest reigning monarch in the world, after Queen Elizabeth II. In Brunei—a rather...
View ArticleIt Takes a Lot of Courage to Be Who You Are
I was 10 years old when a monumental series of events took place some two hours north of my suburban Philadelphia town. Known as the Stonewall Riots/Uprising/Rebellion, they heralded a ‘we’re not gonna...
View ArticleEight LGBTQ-Positive Children’s Books in Time for Pride and Year-Round Learning
Pamela Malins, Western University What kind of storybooks should be read to children? This question has been contentious—so much so that when I was teaching in a public elementary school in Ontario 10...
View ArticleHow the New York Media Covered the Stonewall Riots
Chad Painter, University of Dayton The Stonewall riots were a six-night series of protests that began in the early morning of June 28, 1969, and centered around the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York...
View Article3 Lessons Learned (and Shared) by a Gay Global Executive
I was the president of my high school Spanish Club during my sophomore and senior years; I was as excited about being a first-time leader as I was in exploring the Spanish-speaking countries of the...
View ArticleMoving From Shame to Pride in 50 Years
In the summer of 1969, I was 10 years old and obsessed with the NASA Apollo Program that put a man on the moon. Nothing else in the news caught my attention like the live coverage of Neil Armstrong...
View ArticleYoung LGBT Americans Are More Politically Engaged Than the Rest of Generation Z
Melissa Deckman, Washington College and Mileah Kromer, Goucher College Last year’s midterm elections were a “rainbow wave,” with more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people elected to...
View ArticleSexual Abuse Against Gay and Bi Men
— Sexual abuse against gay and bi men brings unique stigma and harm Gay, bi and trans men experience unique harms from sexual abuse and often struggle to resolve their sexuality as a result....
View ArticleWhy Ellen Is Wrong
Last week, the LGBTQ+ community had three significant stories. ◊♦◊ One was Friday being National Coming Out Day, a day for LGBTQ+ persons to tell whomever they please about their sexual orientation and...
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