Mombian: Making Museums Welcoming to All Families
BY DANA RUDOLPH May is National Museum Month, and LGBTQ families have a growing source of support in museums — including ones aimed at children — that have [...]
Viewpoint: Diversity, Even in Opinion, is Good
Spoiler Alert! If you are reading this, you are in the Op-Ed section. If you visit the Online Etymology Dictionary, you will read that this section of a [...]
Creep of the Week: Michael Brown
My 6-year-old son has two moms. For Mothers' Day (and, yes, that's where we put the apostrophe) he gave both my wife (a.k.a. "Mommy") and I cards with [...]
Transmissions: Creating A Problem
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith I had once erroneously thought that 2014 or 2015 was going to be the year of "pee politics," with clashes over trans bathroom rights [...]
Viewpoint: It's a Stacked Deck, but We've Got That Woman Card Up Our Sleeve
Life started out simple, or so it seemed. There were two boxes — female/girl and male/boy. It was all supposed to be simple from there. We would walk down [...]
Important Victory for Transgender Students Rights
BY JAY KAPLAN On April 19, 2016, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals became the first United States federal court to hold that the U.S. Department of Education's [...]
Ask Lambda Legal - Day of Silence 2016
By Christopher Clark Q: I'm a queer/LGBTQ student, and I've been out at school for a little while. My school's Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) wants to [...]
Fire Rick Snyder
By Keith Orr The petitions are out on the streets. We have a chance to fire our governor. A 2012 Michigan law regulating recall petitions created more layers [...]
North Carolina: Common Sense
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Since North Carolina passed House Bill 2 that, amongst other things, criminalizes trans restroom use in state facilities and schools, a [...]
Digging Deep, Pulling Together and Doing Whatever it Takes
The win for marriage equality was our high point, but we knew it would not be smooth sailing ahead with this victory. We knew there would remain opposition. [...]
Transmissions, North Carolina: The Cost
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith In a special session, the North Carolina state Legislature pushed through House Bill 2, delivering it to Gov. Pat McCrory in roughly 12 [...]
Waiter, There's a Transgender Person In My Soup!
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith Michael Savage is, like any number of other right-wing talk-radio hosts, no stranger to courting controversy. He's made inflammatory [...]
