LGBTQ+
hey folks, we're pleased to report the public release of the Beehaw LGBTQ+ Community Wiki! this is a fairly-comprehensive and ever-growing list of community resources and LGBTQ+ research you can refer to as needed. the community wiki is hosted on our documents page with all of our site philosophy documents and is written in markdown. #### some quick ground-rules on contributing: - suggested additions can be made two ways currently. - way one: making a pull request, if you have the technical know-how to make those. this can be done both on the repository itself and via the Edit this page button at the bottom. **please describe the nature of your edits when you do this so we don't have to look over your entire edit.** - way two: you can provide a suggestion in the comments below which we'll manually synthesize as we can. - for resources, **please try to provide a brief description of what your suggestions do and what communities and countries/regions they serve.** this will make it easier to categorize them. - for research, we're a bit more picky: **provide a summary of the research's significance and its basic findings.** we generally want the research section to be as to-the-point and bulletproof as possible. - if you find a dead or rotted link, **please make a pull request to remove it (with a replacement if possible) or flag us here**. we'll continually review the links as we possibly can, but actual users are going to be our main first line of defense here. as we note on the top of the page itself, parts of the page have been adapted from the [Global Transgender Resources Registry](https://gtrr.artemislena.eu/), the Tildes [~lgbt wiki](https://tildes.net/~lgbt/wiki/lgbt_resources) (to which i was a previous contributor), and [Emi’s blahaj.zone](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/154325) thread. we hope to build off of all of that work that's already been done at those places. enjoy! more additions to the document will also be made throughout the day, so be on the lookout for those.
www.huckmag.com
> A recent report by the Musician’s Census reveals that 51% of women in the music industry have faced gender discrimination. 37% of LGBTQ+ musicians faced discrimination for their sexuality and over half of trans respondents, have faced discrimination for their gender identity. In an industry characterised by competition and sales, and dominated by those who know a guy that knows a guy, The Name Game provides a place of solace. A space to build community and allyships whilst building connections and getting vital resources and bits of information. > > As well as barriers faced because of gender and sexuality, there are further hurdles those attempting to break into the [UK music industry feel they must navigate. There exists, Daisy tells me, an "outdated notion that you have to live in London to work in music,” explaining her plans to expand into other regions and hold in-person events in new locations.
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www.them.us
> Over the course of a year [for their book-length nonfiction project American Teenager], Lang embedded themself in the lives of eight trans kids and their families for two weeks at a time, trekking from California to West Virginia and nearly everywhere in between, condensing each visit into a chapter. The result is an incredibly intimate, varied look into the lives of American trans youth, from their worries about not being able to get top surgery before prom to the joys of finding home in a queer summer camp to the bittersweet feeling of leaving one’s home state to pursue futures that would otherwise be impossible.
aeon.co
> Herein lies the fascinating paradox: Utah’s queerness isn’t merely about its LGBTQI+ population. Rather, it embodies a deeper, more fundamental queerness rooted in the very fabric of the state’s history, particularly its origins in Mormonism. From its early days of polygamy and unique religious practices, Mormonism has always defied conventional norms. Despite many Utahns’ usually conservative stance towards LGBTQI+ matters, an intrinsic oddity permeates Utah’s culture, creating an environment where queerness, in the broadest sense, can thrive while simultaneously being suppressed or disavowed.
The summary and the entire WSJ article can be read [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20240926060947/https://76crimes.com/2024/09/25/in-africa-moscow-battles-lgbtq-rights-side-by-side-with-u-s-religious-conservatives/). The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, African politicians and activists from the American religious right have been working side by side to push for anti-homosexuality laws in Africa, the Wall Street Journal reports. Highlights of the Wall Street Journal article of Sept. 22 include: - On Jan. 25, 2023, Vladlen Semivolos, the Russian ambassador to Uganda, met Speaker of Parliament Anita Among in her office and urged her to push for quick approval of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which provides the death penalty for repeated consensual same-sex intimacy. - In March 2023, Russia supplied $300,000 to Uganda to host lawmakers from across Africa for a conference on how to resist Western pressure on issues like gay and reproductive rights. - On March 20, when Uganda’s parliament voted on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, around a dozen Ugandan lawmakers joined the vote remotely from Moscow, where they were attending a conference of Russian and other African parliamentarians dubbed “Russia-Africa in a Multipolar World.” - The Russian ambassador denies making that $300,000 transfer or pushing for passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. - An email announcing the $300,000 payment went to Sharon Slater, president of the anti-LGBTQ American advocacy group Family Watch International, one of the organizers of the Ugandan conference. - Slater says she and Family Watch weren’t aware of any Russian funding for the conference and never had any involvement with the Russian government on any African issues. - She spokes at a 2014 conference in Moscow that was organized by the anti-gay World Congress of Families. - In her speech at the Uganda conference, Slater claimed that the U.N. and international aid groups are “after the children” and that they promote sex education that will “capture their hearts and minds to recruit them to their cause.” - Slater says Family Watch has never supported anti-LGBTQ legislation in African countries and wasn’t “responsible for the treatment of homosexuals under African laws.” - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says that Slater convinced him to remove a section of the bill that would have made it a crime simply to identify as LGBTQ. - Attendees at the Ugandan conference included anti-gay legislators from Ghana who proposed the harsh anti-LGBTQ bill that Ghana’s parliament passed in February 2024 and that is currently awaiting action from the President and Supreme Court.
www.cjr.org
> Knowing what or what not to do, and when, involves—as always, in journalism—judgment calls. “You end up in situations like, Can I as a nonbinary trans person report on the laws that are trying to make my existence illegal? Is that bias? Well, it is,” O’Connell said. “I’m biased against those laws. I don’t want to be driven out of Austin by the state government. So can I report on those things? I think I should report on those things. But certainly, some publications would have made the argument that I am too biased to report on them.” The stories O’Connell is most drawn to—local news that bobs between the giant, cresting waves of national headlines about marginalized people—have been arising with greater intensity, these days. In life, in work, in Austin, O’Connell is submerged.
www.aljazeera.com
> ‘Family values’ bill is adopted despite being denounced by the president, rights groups and the European Union. Kesaria Abramidze, a trans model, [was murdered](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/transgender-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-georgia-amid-lgbtq-bill-controversy) the day after the bill passed. Even if the president vetos it, this law already has a body count.
www.gaytimes.com
> I’m a proud bisexual and I adore our queer culture, so why do I still doubt that I’m allowed to take up this space? > > I remember the day I came out to my mum. Standing at the end of her bed one grey and drizzly evening, I used a sudden surge of confidence to tell her that I am bisexual. Initially, she didn’t understand. How could I like more than one gender if at that time I had a boyfriend? I did my best to answer her questions, and fortunately, she accepted me. > But I was still grappling with self-doubt, compounded by casual, maybe even unconscious, bi-erasure from those around me. My friends would joke that the worst thing I could do was end up with a man – I’d be betraying myself, and my attraction to men surely couldn’t be real. > > I laughed too, as a bead of sweat rolled down my face. I was an imposter. I wasn’t queer enough. Quick! Someone play Chappell Roan and cleanse me of my sins! Should I overcompensate and date a woman immediately? The pressure to prove myself at times felt overwhelming. I didn’t feel good enough for my own community.
I'm a Bi dude and literally get so tongue tied sometimes I sound like Porkie Pig
dailynewshungary.com
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2723041 > [Archived link](https://web.archive.org/web/20240907013737/https://dailynewshungary.com/pro-orban-roman-catholic-priest-gay-parties/) > > According to the Hungarian media outlet Válasz Online, Father Gergő Bese, the “star priest” of the Orbán regime, there were a series of documents proving that Mr Bese participated in gay parties and maintained intimate relationships with other men. > > Things like that are, of course, part of private life, and should remain so. However, the case of Gergő Bese is different. He is one of the flag-bearers of Orbán’s political Christianity, a strong protector of Fidesz from critics from inside the church, an influencer regularly publishing pro-government writings, a public figure, and it seems a financial beneficiary of the Orbán cabinet. > > Moreover, he kept slamming the LGBTQ movement, supporting and authenticating the government’s campaign by wearing a cassock. > > He blessed PM Orbán’s office in Buda Castle’s Carmelite Monastery and the government-close Megafon Centre. He campaigned for the government during the 2022 general elections, writing that those voting for the opposition choose tuition fees in schools, unbearable payments in social institutes and the lockdown of village temples. > > He slammed Hungarian singer Gabi Tóth because of her divorce and the drag queens performing at the 2024 Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony. Bese wrote about the LGBTQ ideology and its aim to conquer the world and how difficult it was for a kid living in a single-parent family to find an identity. That is when LGBTQ propaganda can find and “change” them, he argued. > > He slammed the demonstration of church school teachers, Péter Magyar, whom he called the Judas of Fidesz, accepting the 30 pieces of silver. > > In the last six years, Bese and his family received HUF 41 million (EUR 101 thousand) from a civil fund supporting almost only the Fidesz-close NGOs. Even though the two NGOs applying are officially led by Bese’s mother and sibling, his email address and phone number were given under the contact details. Apart from the subvention, they received more than HUF 60 million (EUR 152 thousand) through different programmes from the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, the Cultural Ministry and the Bethlen Gábor Fund. Moreover, he is renting the Regina Hungarorum in Medjugorje. > > The Archbishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemét suspended Bese today.
Here is the [original YT link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_eY8w1goc&si=Vu2kztOaJVZe6fHg) Project 2025 is shot through with anti-trans ideas and draconian proposals to crack down on, not only the rights, but even the mention of LGBTQ people. The conservative blueprint for the next Republican presidency lays out a plan that equates trans identity with pornography in a calculated attempt to classify anyone who is not straight and cis-gender as obscene, dangerous, and ultimately, illegal. The tactic falls right in line with the authors’ fixation on anything that might threaten the conservative image of what the American family should be.
I [18NB] am starting uni in Edinburgh, Scotland tomorrow. Since I'll be living a good distance away from home, I was thinking of buying some pride merch and stuff. However, it has crossed my mind that safety could be an issue. I wouldn't have thought that Edinburgh would have issues, but I think it's best to ask Lemmy: **On the whole, is Edinburgh a safe place to be myself?**
"Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman. Watch Will & Harper on September 27 on Netflix." (from the YouTube description)
www.them.us
[Archived version](https://web.archive.org/web/20240829165002/https://www.them.us/story/republicans-legislation-anti-trans-agenda) **In the U.S., Republicans are using bills that benefit the majority to push an anti-trans agenda** Lawmakers in the U.S. have repeatedly made last-ditch efforts to pass anti-trans laws during the eleventh hour of their legislative session in recent years, notably in Alabama and Kentucky, where the bills were eventually signed into law. This year, Republican lawmakers across several states tried their hand at it again, derailing governance as usual on the waning days of legislative sessions by attempting to replace routine legislation with anti-LGBTQ+ bills or stonewalling the process of passing other bills to push anti-LGBTQ+ efforts, advocates say. This year, though, the ground has begun to shift. In March, during the last three weeks of Georgia’s legislative session, Republicans made a contortionistic effort to ram policies targeting transgender students into bills originally written to support all students in the state. Their target: a bill creating mental health screenings and other resources for student-athletes. That bill was reengineered into legislation to ban sex education below 6th grade, bar trans students from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity, prohibit trans students from using restrooms that match their gender identity, and allow parents to be alerted about every library book that their child checks out.
[Archived version](https://web.archive.org/web/20240826184240/https://19thnews.org/2024/08/project-2025-anti-trans-policies-impact-families/) **The vision for Trump’s second term in the White House purports to protect families — but its anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is centered in exclusion.** The U.S. Republicans' Project 2025 equates being transgender — or adopting “transgender ideology” — to pornography and declares that it should be outlawed. Under this plan, the federal government would enforce sex discrimination laws on the “biological binary meaning of sex,” and educators and public librarians who spread the concept of being transgender would be registered as sex offenders. The plan says that children should be “raised by their biological fathers and mothers who conceive them,” unless those biological parents are found unfit by a court. These ideas have drawn national attention for their far-reaching scope, but they didn’t appear out of thin air. They all have roots in anti-LGBTQ+ state legislation that conservative lobbying groups and think tanks have supported for years, like the law that took effect in Kentucky. Contributors to Project 2025 include senior staff from Alliance Defending Freedom, whose lawyers have helped write anti-transgender legislation in a number of states and defended those laws in court. Members of the conservative groups Family Research Council and the American Principles Project, which have similarly pushed anti-LGBTQ+ bills and anti-trans rhetoric, have served on the Project 2025 advisory board.
www.nbcnews.com
Dr. Kade Goepferd, medical director of Children’s Minnesota Hospital’s Gender Health Program, like many providers who treat transgender youths, has received death threats. Goepferd said the growing waitlist, which has expanded due to surrounding states' bans on gender-affirming care, is more concerning. The program has seen a 30% increase in calls, leading to a waitlist of at least a year. NBC News found that clinicians in states like Connecticut and California are similarly overwhelmed by the influx of out-of-state patients. Legal risks and logistical challenges, such as insurance denials, are straining providers. Shield laws are "a tenuous protection," according to Dr. Molly McClain of the University of New Mexico’s Deseo clinic. A "majority of gender-affirming care providers NBC News interviewed had received threats, ranging from angry calls and emails to arson."
www.bbc.com
A queer icon has passed :(
theconversation.com
In 1061, two men in Spain, Pedro Díaz and Munio Vandilaz, signed a legal agreement which many researchers say is a factual, non-literary example of a recognised same-sex union during the the Medieval period. Although the task of interpreting the original document is not easy, what is certain is that the Middle Ages are far from the dark, backwards and savage era that some continue to imagine. It is important to remember that in the the Middle Ages there was even homoerotic literature, a fact that reveals a certain permissive attitude and recognition of loving and sexual relations between people of the same sex.
alt-text for thumbnail: The words: ""biological" sex is the gender binary" on a 2d digital art wooden background next to the non-binary flag
[alt text: an illustration depicting a triceratops, a tyrannosaurus rex, and a human boy. The triceratops is dressed in shorts and a sweater vest, wearing headphones, and giving a thumbs-up. The t-rex is dressed in a leather jacket and sunglasses, and is giving the human a high-five. Below the illustration is stylized text that says, "It's totally cool to be GAY AS SHIT".]
So, I'll start with heteronormativity Is annoying. Like whya re any 2 people of opposite genders evoected to be interested in each other romantically, do cishets not know what friendship is? To cisnormativity I don't really have that much to say apart from please stop being transphobic Monogamy normativity also pisses me off to no end. No idea how to write this down but waow, stop having love < s and just do polyamoury in your fiction. The option is right fucking there The cishets(tm) are strange and confusing, why am I so angry lol
[alt text: a tweet by @Rae_HV on Twitter. The tweet says, "sorry but as a nonbinary person I'll never feel comfortable using the men's room or the women's room; i only feel truly safe in the...". Below the text is a photo of a printed, laminated paper sign on a wall, which says, "Fiction, Sci-Fi, Philosophy, New age, Unexplained, Fantasy, Restroom", and has an arrow pointing to the left.]