Category: lgbt

Color them proud for Pride: Butch Lesbians of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Coloring Book

The Butch Lesbians of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Coloring Book proved so popular a second edition is due just two months after the first print run. The sequel to The Butch Lesbians of the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s Coloring Book contains 40 pages to color, as well as profiles by editors Jon Macy and Avery Cassell of…
Little LGBT lessons: A history and activity book for kids

A new LGBT history from Chicago Review Press is kid-friendly and mom-approved — make that two moms. Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights is stocked with stories, quotes, photographs and nearly two dozen activities. LGBT parents will be over-the-rainbow with the book by Jerome Pohlen, a former elementary school…
Education Department is flushing transgender students’ complaints

The U.S. Education Department confirmed in February that it is no longer investigating — or taking any action on — complaints from transgender students about school-based discrimination. Specifically, the department overseen by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is not taking action on complaints from transgender kids banned from using restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.…
On top of the world: Iceland No. 1 on LGBT Global Acceptance Index

As Donald Trump campaigned for the White House in 2016, polls showed 19–25 percent of Americans said they’d consider moving to Canada if he won. Surveys put that percentage even higher among LGBT voters. But perhaps LGBT Americans should have been looking to move to Iceland, the Netherlands or Sweden, places that rank No. 1,…
Supreme Court watch: Wedding cake ruling muddies the equality waters, more decisions to come

Civil rights groups emphasized the narrowness of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this month that favored a Colorado baker who refused to serve a gay couple wanting to buy a cake for their wedding reception. But the ruling means more business owners will try to use their religious beliefs to discriminate against people based on…
House Democrats stage sit-in, demand vote on gun control

Democrats staged a 1960s-style sit-in on the U.S. House floor June 22–23, chanting, “No bill. No Break.” The protest was intended to call attention to Republicans’ inaction against gun violence in the wake of the largest mass shooting in modern history at a gay dance club in Orlando. House Speaker Paul Ryan responded by shutting…
Terror in the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’

An act of terror. An act of hate. The world responded with love and compassion, fury and fight. Early on the morning of June 12, a gunman armed with an assault rifle and a handgun went on a rampage at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida. He killed 49 people and wounded more than…
Island of seduction

The way a kid feels that day before the last day of school before summer vacation? That’s the way Fire Island fans feel before the long Memorial Day weekend. The way a kid feels that day before the first day of the new school year? That’s the way Fire Island fans feel about Labor Day…
Meanwhile in Mecca: an illustrated story of San Francisco

The place “has always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life.” Wendy MacNaughton is referring to the San Francisco Public Library, maybe not a stop on every vacationer’s itinerary, but the population of the library “mirrors the population…
From protest to preservation: | Federal government identifies historic LGBT sites and events

On a warm night in June 1969 outside the Stonewall Inn, rioters rebelled against the continued persecution and harassment by government officials. On a sunny day in late May, government officers — the highest-ranking among them member of the U.S. cabinet — gathered outside the unobtrusive brick building that stands as the symbolic birthplace of…
In the game… WiG’s annual Pride pop quiz

No doubt you know the words to “Go! You Packers! Go” and the name of that guy who wears No. 12 — maybe you know his career passing yards. And probably you know which Major League Baseball team is No. 1 in the National League’s Central Division and how many games are left until the…
Legal limbo

As gay couples in Wisconsin waited in legal limbo in mid-June, equality foes continued working to defend anti-gay amendments in the courts and marched on Washington. But those foes are caught in a losing streak. The march on Washington on June 19 fell flat, and there have been 21 consecutive court rulings for marriage equality…
We can be heroes: In pursuit of equality in the courts

Eight same-sex couples — with a team of lawyers — committed earlier this year to overturn Wisconsin’s constitutional amendment barring gays and lesbians from the freedom to marry in the state. Their fight continues, but already their pursuit of equality has resulted in the marriages of at least 555 same-sex couples in Wisconsin. “These families…