by admin | Sep 28, 2018 | Featured, Power LGBT, trans
Audrey Tang may very well be the world’s only transgender cabinet minister. Appointed in 2016 to the Chinese Lin Chaun cabinet in Taiwan, she is a minister without portfolio—or a minister who does not have a particular office but maintains a right to vote...
by admin | Feb 16, 2018 | Featured, Power LGBT
While the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio blew away previous LGBT participation with 53 out athletes, Winter Olympics have always been less queer. This year, nine openly gay Olympians set a new record for the winter games, beating 2014’s four. From the USA:...
by admin | Jan 11, 2017 | Featured, Power LGBT
The LGBTQ+ community (among others) is going to spend the next four years fighting tooth and nail for its rights and freedoms. The Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress is going to make every effort to erode the civil rights of gay and...
by admin | Mar 16, 2016 | Power LGBT
Lakeland lawyer Larry Hardaway organized an event in Lakeland recently as a vigil for the late Virgil Hawkins, a respected civil rights pioneer in Florida. Hawkins’ story begins in 1949, when the then 43-year-old’s application to the University of Florida’s Levin...
by admin | Sep 2, 2015 | Power LGBT
Hilary Rodham Clinton offered moral support to a distraught gay youth who shared his anxiety about his future in a viral photograph that was posted on the Humans of New York Facebook page. The boy who is not named in the photo is shown frowning and holding his head in...
by admin | May 25, 2015 | Power LGBT
Higher education institutions have long had a problem with gender equality. Many prestigious colleges and universities like Harvard and Brown didn’t allow female students until the 1970s, and sexism continues to run rampant (although often in highly subtle ways) in...
