Let Trans Kids Be Kids – Omaha Reader
If you ask Sophie Smith why she switched elementary schools, the reasons are simple: gender and name. Sophie, whose name has been changed for this story to protect her identity, wanted...
Readers Write: Giving blood, climate science – Minneapolis Star Tribune
Thanks to the Star Tribune Editorial Board for urging more people to donate blood ("More of us need to donate blood," editorial, Aug. 31). I started making regular blood donations during...
S’porean teen shares LGBT-affirming experiences in Taiwan’s education sector, from inclusive sex ed to...
An inclusive sex education syllabus and protections against discrimination under the Gender Equity Education Act are among resources available to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in Taiwan, according to Singaporean...
“The Monkey Who Speaks,” by Han Ong – The New Yorker
Contract?You don’t understand. We would like to pay you directly is what I’m saying. We pay the nurse services twenty-six an hour for your visits. I’m guessing you get half, maybe...
Edgy artist innovates with installations – The Phnom Penh Post
Many artists focus on one discipline obsessively in order to master it, often for years at a time or even as the sole focus of their artistic careers. Others fixate on...
Reuters US Domestic News Summary – Devdiscourse
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.Florida gunman kills 4 including baby, wounds 11-year-old girlA self-described survivalist in body armor shot and killed four people, including a woman...
Peter Chow: Secular Humanism – SaultOnline.com
“TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, WITHOUT THE THREAT OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION, NOR THE HOPE OF DIVINE REWARD.”
What do Evangelicals and the Taliban have in common?
For both groups, their...
Recall puts California’s direct democracy to test – Los Angeles Times
When California’s newly elected governor, Hiram Johnson, delivered his inaugural address on Jan. 3, 1911, he made a radical proposition.My first duty, Johnson declared on that celebratory day, “is to eliminate...
Buenos Aires Times | LGBTQ governor who backed Bolsonaro now wants Brazil’s top job...
The presidential hopeful favoured by investors in what’s shaping up to be a divisive and brutal election campaign in Brazil is the 36-year-old governor of a conservative state who just came...
Merger of Chambers to be discussed on local TV station ICAM – The Local...
At the reception for the merged Ipswich and Cape Ann Chambers, Ken Riehl told how the Cape Ann plate helps fund local non-profits. Susan Gould is in the background. Please Support...
What’s behind the decision to close Yale-NUS College? – The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - More than a week since the shock announcement that Yale-NUS College will close its doors in 2025, students and alumni are still wondering if they will get a more...
Signature Moves With Sean Bankhead – The New York Times
Last year, when Cardi B’s team reached out to the choreographer Sean Bankhead to help create dances for the “Up” music video, he asked if she had two months to dedicate...
Space for China’s LGBTQ+ Communities Continues to Shrink – China Digital Times
Leaked documents revealed last weekend that Shanghai University has ordered its colleges to collect lists of LGBTQ+ students and report on their personal lives. Citing unspecified “relevant requirements,” the university of...
White House Seeks $65 Billion to Prepare for Future Pandemics – The New York...
“I am very concerned that if we don’t commit the resources now, it will only get harder, and less likely, in the years ahead,” Mr. Daschle wrote in an email. “Now...
Appeal for witnesses after fatal suspected homophobic attack – Yahoo News UK
(Met Police)Police are hoping attempts to engage with the LGBT community will help solve a suspected homophobic murder in east London.Ranjith “Roy” Kankanamalage, 50, was found dead about 6.30am on...
Movie Fans Repeated ‘Candyman.’ But Not the Name of Its Director. – The New...
Three more were based on Tolstoy stories — “The Kreutzer Sonata,” “Boxing Day” and “2 Jacks” — all set in the modern day, all starring Huston, all delving into the self-destructiveness,...
The Real Reason Why L in LGBTQ+ Comes First – ED Times
LGBTQ+ is the umbrella term that consists of all sexualities and the gender spectrum. LGBTQ refers to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,...
Erasure of bisexual men is common, even among gay people, according to science –...
A new study has revealed that gay men and lesbians are just as bad for bisexual erasure as straight people. (Envato Elements) Erasure of bisexual men is common, even among other...
Erasure of bisexual men is common, even among gay and lesbian people, according to...
Erasure of bisexual men is common, even among other people in the LGBT+ community, according to new research.The study, published in the European Journal for Social Psychology, found that most people...
Agony aunt hits homophobic mother with a clap back so good it belongs in...
An agony aunt hit back at a homophobic mother in the best possible way – and her response should be framed and displayed in a museum.Agony aunt Amy Dickinson’s incredible advice...
‘Grandfluencers’ defy age limits as TikTok content creators – The Christian Science Monitor
New York Lagetta Wayne, with 130,500 followers amassed since joining in June 2020, owes her social media success to a teenage granddaughter. Her very first video, a garden tour, clocked 37,600...
I Always Thought I Was Exclusively Straight – Psychology Today
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Our society loves to place people in socially constructed categories. We are often reduced to our racial, gender, ethnic, or weight-based indicators, ignoring the richness of who we...
Central Arizona College announces summer 2021 graduates | Your Valley – Your Valley
By Angela Askey Central Arizona College celebrates the success of the Summer 2021 graduates.
The listing is organized alphabetically by campus and includes the certificate and/or degree the student received. “*” denotes...
Couple invests decades of work to improve local education – Palo Alto Online
It felt like an enormous risk to Bill and Gay Krause back in 1981.Bill quit his good management job at Hewlett-Packard — where his personal mentor was the legendary co-founder Bill...
Why Business Leaders Need to Mandate the Covid-19 Vaccine – Harvard Business Review
To bring the pandemic under control, almost everyone needs to come to see getting vaccinated as the unquestioned, right thing to do for themselves and for others. What business leaders...
Crazed homophobe attacks straphanger on Brooklyn subway train – Yahoo News
A 23-year-old man was beaten during an unprovoked anti-gay attack on a Brooklyn train, police said Friday.The victim was riding a north-bound J train heading into the Broadway Junction station around...
Whitefish Review Takes Flight – Flathead Beacon
Building off last year’s metamorphism theme, Whitefish Review launched its 26th issue “Taking Flight” in July, featuring poetry, essays, short stories, art and an inaugural humor contest. “‘Taking Flight’ is coming...
9/11 brought a sense of national unity. Why has the pandemic been marred by...
"Bad times bring out the best in people."It must be true. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a cliché.On the other hand, maybe clichés, like doctors, should be re-certified every once in a...
How Scientists Solved The Mystery Of Rising Bread – Science Friday
From bleeding polenta and a corrupt grain trade, author Eric Pallant traces how scientists figured out that sourdough’s fermentation comes from living microbes.
September 3, 2021 The...
College of William & Mary dedicates building named for gay historian – Washington Blade
LGBTQ activists were among the thousands who turned out in the nation’s capital on Aug. 28 for two separate marches and several rallies in support of voting rights and D.C. statehood.
Organizers...
Perspective-changing experiences, good or bad, can lead to richer lives – Science News Magazine
In December, my husband, our 5-year-old daughter and I tested positive for COVID-19. Life, already off-kilter, lurched. Smell, taste, breath — were they normal? The air smelled only of cold; everything...
The latest scenes of the destruction left by Hurricane Ida – Mason City Globe...
Candace Turley, left, carries her dog, Bella, as she and her family, Corey Carter, center, Mi'Kayla Thomas, 7, and Michael Thomas, carrying Malik, 2, walk through a yard covered in roof...
Tom Swift: The CW Network To Air ‘Nancy Drew’ Spinoff About Black, Gay Billionaire...
The CW Network will soon air a spinoff of its hit series, "Nancy Drew." The new series will center on the Black, gay billionaire character, Tom Swift, who delves into the world of...
‘A virtual death sentence’: Gay Afghans brace for uncertain future under Taliban – NBC...
N, a 20-year-old student living in Afghanistan, is in hiding as she hopes for news that she and her family can leave the country. As a lesbian, she believes she will...
How gay men justify their racism on Grindr – Salon
On gay dating apps like Grindr, many users have profiles that contain phrases like "I don't date Black men," or that claim they are "not attracted to Latinos." Other times...