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60,000 cisgender women write powerful open letter in support of trans community: ‘We have had enough’

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/14/not-in-our-name-trans-awareness-week-good-law-project-cisgender-anti-trans-fight/?utm_medium=social

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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302d

THE ARROW - A Circus X Film [Love. Pride. Truth.] - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnJUS30olE

#NowPlaying #LGBTQ #Dance

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274d

“Love is an act of resistance, and our community is so brave and resilient.”

For The Barbed Wire and the 19th, I covered the Big #Queer Wedding Party, a joyous and defiant, glitter-soaked protest and party where ten couples from around #Texas (& Oklahoma!) got married or renewed their vows, officiated by Judge Denise Hernández a queer judge from here in #Austin. https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/big-queer-wedding-party-in-texas/

#Oklahoma #photography #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #culture #journalism #activism

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294d

‪It's official! I can announce that I'm now the Newsletter Writer and Contributor to Big & Bright from The Barbed Wire (https://thebarbedwire.com/category/culture/big-bright/)

I'll be creating a twice-monthly newsletter and regular stories about the highs & lows of #LGBTQ+ Texas life, with an emphasis on #queer and trans joy.

🏳️‍🌈⭐👏 Subscribe for free: https://thebarbedwire.com/subscribe/

#journalism #Texas #LGBTQIA+ #news #culture #queer #trans

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291d

China has one of the best BL and gay content ever
#revengedLove #TianXuNing #ZIYu #China #gay #lgbtq #BL #boyslove @board

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293d

In today’s article for @assignedmedia.org, I interview Dr. Clair Kronk, a #trans scholar working to collect and preserve #LGBTQ data.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/preserving-data-history-clair-kronk

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1y

太好了！

轉：內政部表示，為保障國人婚姻平權，行政院邀集相關機關針對同性婚姻涉及中國大陸地區人民相關議題召開會議，會中就兩岸同性伴侶在第三地結婚後的入境事由、面談機制，及登記程序等整體行政管理措施進行充分討論後，決議開放兩岸同婚。

https://www.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2220808

#婚姻平權 #LGBTQ

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161d

Make America Gay Again 🇺🇸 🌈

#US #America #MAGA #TransVisibilityDay #LGBTQ

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1y

"My hidden agenda in the book club is to get people excited about reading stories about members of the #LGBTQ+ community who are different than them."

I'm pleased to share my first story for The Advocate, about the joy of #queer folks reading together: https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-book-clubs

#books #bookstodon #Austin #Texas #LGBTQIA+ #culture #Richmond #Virginia @bookstodon

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1y

“Our #LGBTQ+ loved ones need both our compassion and our action to make our communities safe and our laws inclusive, so every LGBTQ+ person can be safe, celebrated, affirmed and loved everywhere in the U.S.”

Hate crimes, particularly against LGBTQ community, on the rise: FBI data - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hate-crimes-lgbtq-community-rise-fbi-data/story?id=113962673

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#news #homophobia #transphobia #politics #USpol #extremism #CriminalJustice

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153d

I think I managed to capture evidence that, as I have long suspected, the way to heaven is rather fabulously #lgbtq themed. 🌈

#photography #clouds

Photograph of clouds with the sun shining through it, making a big white opening on top, and a rainbow coloured surrounding made of more clouds. It’s epic, imposing, and fabulous!

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🏳️‍🌈 📖 Queer Romance Club DECEMBER selection — The Holly Groweth Green 📖 🏳️‍🌈

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It’s Christmas 1946. Lost in the Hampshire countryside on a snowy Christmas Eve, ex-military doctor Laurence stumbles across lonely Mistle Cottage and its owner: Avery.

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Another tie-breaker needed. I've picked the m/m one as we've had quite a few f/f through the year. (Feel free to read one of the others on the list instead or as well, or recommend your own favourite holiday reads!)

This one looks like a short, sweet read to end the year :)

It's on #KoboPlus for those with subscriptions but will be also available wide.

QRC is open to all, read at your own pace over the month and post about it under the #QueerRomanceClub and @queerromanceclub tags (that's a fedi.groups group, not the dead gup.pe group).

No rules: let’s hear reactions, theories, reviews, favourite quotes etc, any time throughout the month or whenever you read it. CW for spoilers appreciated.

More about QRC here:
https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104

#ChristmasReads @bookstodon
#books #bookClub #GayRomance #lgbtq

The title in swirly writing in the centre of a snowy scene of a man in a old-time suit walking across a snow-covered field, snowflakes falling around him. Holly with lots of red berries provides a frame on top and bottom.

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163d

Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’.

On orders from Trump.

They want you to "pray (the gay/trans) away".

Or go to jail.
#lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq_plus
https://www.koat.com/article/supreme-court-colorado-conversion-therapy-ban-lgbtq-kids/70895010

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147d

Federal court sides with trans athletes & says Donald Trump’s executive orders aren’t law https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/federal-court-sides-with-trans-athletes-says-donald-trumps-executive-orders-arent-law/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #lgbtq #lgbt

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📚 Taiwan Travelogue by: Shuang-zi Yang

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs...

https://bookblabla.com/book/taiwan-travelogue

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #historical #generalfiction #lgbtq

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear.

Soon a Taiwanese woman—who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the “something” is.

Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power

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147d

Which is why MAGA hates women's sports.

#wnba #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq_plus https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/16/azzi-fudd-paige-bueckers-dallas-wings-wnba?CMP=GTUS_email

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147d

Heated Rivalry. By Rachel Reid.

You are a star hockey player just out of high school, when you meet your fellow rookie and nemesis, a Russian player, and you and he will go on to challenge each other on the ice and in the bed FOR 8 YEARS, which it turns out is longer than either of you can stand.

4 of 5 library cats 🏒 🏒 🏒 🏒

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #gay #lgbtq #romance #xxx

Book cover featuring two hockey players facing off

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1y

#sapphicfictionsaturday
I’m reading Hard Lessons by J. Marie Carr. What’s in your hands today? 📖
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTYJNZ6H

IG/Threads: @jancarr621

#whatareyoureading #sapphicbooks #romanticsuspense #murder #stalking #scienceengineering #againstallodds #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #readingcommunity #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A woman laying outside in a hammock reading next to a picture of the cover of Hard Lessons by J. Marie Carr with the caption “What Are You Reading?” for Sapphic Fiction Saturday on 05/17/25.

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147d

Colorado Supreme Court appears split in lawsuit against Children’s Hospital over gender-affirming care

https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/15/gender-affirming-care-colorado-supreme-court/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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263d

📚 We Could Be Rats by: Emily Austin

Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her...

https://bookblabla.com/book/we-could-be-rats

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #lgbtq #generalfiction #humorous #literaryfiction

Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid’s inability to conform to the expectations of polite society.

But Sigrid's detachment veils a deeper turmoil and sensitivity. She's haunted by the pains of her past from pretending her parents were swamp monsters when they shook the floorboards with their violent arguments to grappling with losing Greta's friendship to the opioid epidemic ravaging their town. As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden, both sisters, in their own time and way, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward.

A must read (Haley Jakobson, New York Times Editor's Choice author), We Could Be Rats is an unforgettable story of two sisters finding their way back to each other, and a celebration of that transcendent, unshakable bond.

A one-sitting-read (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.

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264d

📚 The Book of Luke by: Lovell Holder

Following the car accident that ended his football career and left his body scarred, twenty-two-year-old Luke Griffin joins the cast of Endeavor, a new competition-based reality show that pits the tabloids’ darlings against one another in tasks of endurance and problem solving. At first...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-book-of-luke

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Following the car accident that ended his football career and left his body scarred, twenty-two-year-old Luke Griffin joins the cast of Endeavor, a new competition-based reality show that pits the tabloids’ darlings against one another in tasks of endurance and problem solving. At first, he thrives, effortlessly forming friendships and even a romantic relationship that he thinks will last a lifetime. But Luke has aspirations far bigger than the show's million-dollar prize, and soon a series of betrayals leads to irreversible tragedy, changing the course of his and his fellow contestants' lives forever.

Ten years later, Luke’s world looks very different: He is now a father of two and the stay-at-home husband to America’s only openly gay senator. When his husband's serial cheating is exposed, Luke impulsively joins the cast of Endeavor's latest season in a desperate bid to earn some fast cash. Back on set, he is confronted with everything he tried to leave in the past: bitter rivalries, shattered friendships, and crushing guilt, all of which threaten to tear down the walls he’s spent a decade building. As Season 20 of Endeavor kicks off, Luke must give everything to the game, even as he finally learns what it means––and what it costs––to face the truth.

Combining the fabulous rivalries of The Traitors with the epic physical stunts of The Challenge, THE BOOK OF LUKE offers a grounded portrait of what it means to reinvent yourself when no one will let you

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The Trump Administration Admits to Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons

https://transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-admits-to

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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103d

#Russia #Россия #LGBTQ
Under new extremism laws, LGBTQ Russians must fight to survive
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/05/04/under-new-extremism-laws-lgbtq-russians-must-fight-to-survive/

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Dave Chappelle has lashed out at the Republican Party for campaigning on “transgender jokes,” a “weaponized version of what I was doing.”

He is surprised that his transphobia has led to transphobia?🙄

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/comedy/news/dave-chappelle-trans-jokes-republicans-b2958289.html

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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120d

“You get to see future legends get their start, and other people just flourish and find their niche.”

In a city overflowing with #drag, one unique showcase highlights the creativity of the newest artists: Big Tits, Bigger Dreams! Visit this fabulous event with me.

My latest for The Barbed Wire: https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/13/next-top-drag-performer-texas/

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #trans #transgender #art #Austin #Texas #culture #photography

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