Russia backs down, labor steps up, and tranimals break loose, as your AggreGAYtor inappropriately appropriates transgressive gender expectation boundaries.
The Good
Members of the Texas Congress, including local favorite Eddie Rodriguez, have taken notice of the Texas National Guard’s discriminatory stance on benefits for married same-sex couples, and are taking action.
The AFL-CIO is speaking out for transgender workers, and against the prison-industrial complex.
A Canadian trans girl faces bullying and discrimination every time she visits her grandma in Palm Springs… and they’re fighting back.
Russian officials may be backing down, at least while the Olympic spotlight is on them, but sorry, Sochi, Cher’s already onto you, and she’s not into it.
Gay Mormons chose to be born today to lead the LDS Church toward tolerance. No word yet on gay Mormons born over the last century.
The Bad
Rupert Everett compares being gay in Russia today to pre-Stonewall U.S.A.
Anti-gay Russian activists are resorting to rape as a tactic in the war on gays. See also: Rape is not a result of overabundant sexual desire; it is violent act of domination.
Canada’s LGBTQ youth face similar rates of homelessness as here in the U.S.
The Fugly
Detroit’s unelected mayor-by-Republican-fiat has decided to send the city a message by initiating a city-wide blackout.
It Came from the Tubes
This article appears in September 13 • 2013.