TikTok New Policy Limits LGBTQ+ Hatred
After months of working behind the scenes with UltraViolet & GLAAD, TikTok unveils updated user policy to impede harassment, disinformation, misogyny, Anti-LGBTQ+ Hatred, Misgendering, disordered…
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#MeToo: Too Inclusive or Exclusive, My Story
By: Nicole Lashomb*/Editor-in-Chief— Women attacking other women for not including men in the #MeToo movement feeds into the exact problem about why women’s issues are…
Ask A Trans Woman: Makeup, Femininity & Identity—A Complicated Social Issue Facing Women
By: Lorelei Erisis*/TRT Columnist— These are serious times, and I’ve written about some pretty serious topics recently. These things are important to write and talk…
Global Campaign to End Violence Against Women Supported by Mass. Groups
Violence against women is not just a women’s fight, but an LGBTQ fight too By: Mike Givens/TRT Assistant Editor— The Dominican Republic experienced a national…
Hillary Clinton, Melania Trump Scale Building in Scandalous Murals
Latest on this “artist” now covering the scandalous murals, at least one of them, see video below. By: Nicole Lashomb*/Editor-in-Chief— A scantily dressed Hillary Clinton…
Looking Back and Looking Forward on Trans Equality
Trans Equality means full protections and rights, just like cisgender people have them By: Deja Nicole Greenlaw*/TRT Columnist— I first entered the trans community in…
LGBTQ Rights Battle Wages on Across the Nation
By: Michael Givens*/TRT Assistant Editor— Only four months into a new year, 2016 is shaping up to be a pivotal turning point for LGBTQ rights…
Donald Trump Shows True Colors
By: Mike Givens*/TRT Guest Columnist— Jorge Ramos, a well-known anchor for Fusion TV and Univision, was abruptly escorted out of an August 25 press conference…
Unity Pride to Hold Premiere Culturally Inclusive Networking & Social Program for Mass. Residents
BOSTON, Mass.—On Monday, June 29, a new socially progressive committee will hold an informative open house at 6 p.m. at the Fenway Community Health, 8th…
The Voices of We Explores Challenges Women Face, Now in Boston
BOSTON, Mass.—Award-winning Boston area stage and screenwriter, Robbi D’Allessandro, explores the many faces of shame as 333 Productions presents the World Premiere of her original…
Unity Pride Forms in Boston: Promotes Inclusivity, Celebrates Differences, Unites Through Social Justice
By: Lauren Walleser/TRT Assistant Editor— BOSTON, Mass.—Pride season will be here before we know it, and this year, a new organization called Unity Pride has…
The Femme Show: Challenges Assumptions, Subversive Femininity
By: Lauren Walleser/ TRT Assistant Editor— CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Billed as “queer art for queer people,” The Femme Show—a variety show featuring personal explorations of queer and…
In Defense & Celebration of Femininity: Getting Beyond Judgments, Even Within the Queer Community
By: Lorelei Erisis*/TRT Columnist— This month I decided to write about the idea of femininity, specifically as it relates to me, but also in the…
Updated: Community Reacts to Supreme Court Decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
GetEQUAL Reacts to Today’s SCOTUS Ruling on Hobby Lobby Case Statement from Heather Cronk, GetEQUAL Co-Director: “Today’s ruling sends an unfortunately clear message that the…
High Court: Companies Can Discriminate Based on Religion
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— Some LGBT legal activists say today’s decision in a U.S. Supreme Court religious exemption case amounts to a “dangerous and…
‘12 Years a Slave,’ Tactics and Pride
By: Nicole Lashomb/Editor-in-Chief— Pride season is not only a time of year where we come together as one community, celebrating, advocating, and affirmatively being who…
Creep of the Week: Missouri’s Rep. Todd Akin’s Anti-Women & Anti-Gay Comments
By: D’Anne Witkowski/Special for TRT– OK, everybody, I have some really shocking news. I know this is going to really hurt some people, but I…
Lesbian Editors Insulted When Defending “Lesbian Rape Comment” on Radio Show
By: Graysen Martínez Ocasio*/TRT Publisher– Yesterday, one of The Seattle Lesbian editors responded to vitriolic comments that one caller made to the Clear Channel 100.7…
Creep of the Week: Misogynistic Rush Limbaugh
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– Poor Rush Limbaugh. Can’t a guy even call a girl a s&#t on the radio these days without people getting…
Creep of the Week: Rick Santorum, Yes Again, How Can We Not?
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– America loves a circus. Doesn’t even matter if it’s ethical. Tigers locked in cages all day? Elephants viciously whipped? We…
Op-Ed: CNN Suspends Roland Martin: Says His Words Are Intolerable
By: Christian Langstaff/Special Op-Ed– After several hate-filled tweets, by CNN’s Martin, the contributor has been suspended, The Advocate reported. Allegedly, Martin’s anti-gay comments were tweeted while…