LGBTQIA+ Activism
This page links to resources that will help you learn more about the intersection of racial and gender equity, and is broken down into the following categories:
If you're looking for even more resources on this topic, check out Milner's LGBTQIA+ Resources Guide with the link below!
- LGBTQIA+ Resources GuideLink to topic guide on LGBTQIA+ issues.
Video Clips
Source: Time. (2021, March 10). Raquel Willis | TIME's "Voices Of The Future" Women's Summit. YouTube.https://youtu.be/0-5Q8aAXmkI
Source: Los Angeles Times. (2020, July 8). At the Intersection of LGBTQ Pride and Black Lives Matter. YouTube. https://youtu.be/pOxd2q3SqtE
Source: NowThis News. (2019, September 14). Why This Lawyer is Fighting to Decriminalize Sex Work in New York. YouTube. https://youtu.be/lFLMhHzbCGU
Source: AJ+. (2019, May 12). Trans And Native: Meet The Indigenous Doctor Giving Them Hope. YouTube.https://youtu.be/MSnvtj0G3cA
Source: CBS News. (2020, June 27). Black LGBTQ activists bring Pride back to its protest roots. YouTube. https://youtu.be/wQdseHqCKpU
Source: NowThis Entertainment. (2019, September 17). 'Pose' Co-Creator Steven Canals on the Vitality of Authentic, Trans Storytelling. YouTube. https://youtu.be/AnCDV7-8Il8
Source: Rowan Ellis. (2018, June 22). How To Be A Good Ally At LGBTQ+ Pride. YouTube. https://youtu.be/x__cWt6j188
Books
Social Media
Podcasts
TransLash
Episode: A New Black Trans Civil Rights Agenda
We Live Here
Episode: Uprising: Black Trans People Lead
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: Drag at the Intersection
TransLash
Episode: Trans Bodies, Trans Choices
Nancy
Episode: Black Trans Lives Matter
Black Gaze
Episode: Loving & Supporting Black LGBTQ+ Folx
Cite Black Women
Episode: We Must Center Black Trans Women in This Struggle with Imara Jones
At Liberty
Episode:A Trans Organizer on the Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work
All My Relations
Episode: Indigiqueer
Being Seen
Episode: Freedom
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: Stonewall 50: Whose Movement Is It Anyway?
LGBTQ&A
Weekly interviews with the most interesting LGBTQ+ people in the world.
Articles
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- (2022) Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage Rights Clears Congress | New York Times
- (2022) Suing New York, Over and Over, for Transgender Rights | New York Times
- (2021) Trans Veterans Will Now Be Able to Access Life-Saving Gender Confirmation Surgery | them.
- (2020) Supreme Court Delivers Major Victory To LGBTQ Employees | NPR
- (2021) Justice Department Affirms Title IX Protects LGBTQ+ Students From Discrimination | them.
- (2021) New Jersey Is Finally Rolling Out a Gender-Neutral Option for Driver’s Licenses | them.
- (2021) New York Repeals 'Walking While Trans' Law | NPR
- (2020) Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules | New York Times
- (2021) House Passes Sweeping Gay and Transgender Equality Legislation | New York Times
- (2021) Ceyenne Doroshow on Safe, Affordable, LGBTQ-Centered Housing | Time
- (2020) How the Fight Against Police Brutality Helped Ignite the LGBTQ-Rights Movement | Time
- (2022) Report Reveals Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S. | New York Times
- (2022) Runners can identify as nonbinary in next year's Boston and London marathons | NPR
- (2021) Trans Journalists: It's 'A Privilege' To Tell The Stories Of The Trans Community | NPR
- (2020) Black Trans Women Seek More Space in the Movement They Helped Start | New York Times
- (2021) We Don’t Fit Your Gender Binary. Deal With It. | NY Times
- (2020) Nonbinary Photographer Documents Gender Dysphoria Through A Queer Lens | NPR
- (2021) Meet the Transgender Activists Fighting Arkansas’ All-Out War on Trans People | Them. Us
- (2020) When a Haircut Is More Than Just a Haircut | New York Times
- (2019) How Drag Queens Have Sashayed Their Way Through History | NPR
- (2021) Pose's Angelica Ross: For International Transgender Day of Visibility, Let's Embrace All Women | People
- (2019) Why We Created a Gender-Inclusive Stock Photo Library | Vice
- (2020) Black Trans Lives Matter: Activists call for inclusion in racial justice movement | ABC News
- (2020) For Chicago’s LGBTQ Minority Activists, This Time Is Different | WBEZ
- (2021) Pride Flag Gets Redesign to Include Intersex Folks | Advocate
- (2019) Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities | NPR
- (2021) “I Believe in My Power!”: Brooklyn Liberation Takes Over the Street for Trans Youth | them.
- (2020) 12 LGBTQ People on the Future They Want After the 2020 Election | Teen Vogue
- (2021) More High Schoolers Are Gender-Diverse Than We Thought | them.
- (2021) How Do I Know If I’m Nonbinary? | them.us
- (2021) How Do I Know If I’m Transmasculine? | them.us
- (2021) North Carolina Schools Will Now List Trans Students’ Chosen Names | them
- (2019) How I've Learned That Being a Bisexual Chinese American Woman Doesn't Make Me "Leftover" | Teen Vogue
- (2018) How Audre Lorde Taught Me to Love My Queer Black Identity | Them.us
- (2020) 4 Ways To Make Your Workplace Equitable For Trans People | Life Kit
- (2021) Incredible Raven: Saunders lends her voice to the Olympics | AP News
- (2020) A Rising Supermodel Speaks Candidly About Mental Health | Elle UK
- (2021) Over 500 Student Athletes Condemn NCAA’s Silence on Attacks Against Trans Youth | them
- (2021) A Record Number of Trans Athletes Are Vying for Spots at the Tokyo Olympics | them
- (2021) Trans WNBA Player Layshia Clarendon Shares Top Surgery Photos in Heartfelt Post, Gets Full Support From Team | them.
- (2021) Trans Inclusion in School Sports Doesn’t Hurt Cisgender Girls, New Report Finds | Them.Us.
- (2021) Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’ | New York Times
- (2021) The Forgotten History of the First Openly Gay Man to Play Major League Baseball | them.
- (2020) Ways You Can Support the Black LGBTQ+ Community | The Cut
- (2021) Angelica Ross Is Creating A Healing Space for Cis and Trans Women | them
- (2020) How to Be an Ally to Trans People | Teen Vogue
- (2021) Cis Gatekeepers Have No Place in Trans Stories | b*tch media
- (2020) How to Cover the Trans Community Respectfully | Color Lines
- (2020) It’s Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women | Bitch Media
- (2014) What Is a Woman? The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism | New Yorker
Scholarship
- (2022) Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States | Jack Turban
- (2019) The Rise of Transgender and Gender Diverse Representation in the Media: Impacts on the Population. | Richard Mocarski
- (2018) A Best Practice Approach: Providing support services to transgender inmates. | David Radziewicz
- (2019) Stigma, Gender Affirmation, and Primary Healthcare Use Among Black Transgender Youth. | Tamar Goldenberg.
- (2017) Supporting the health and well-being of transgender students. | Ethan C. Cicero
- (2013) Gender Affirmation: A Framework for Conceptualizing Risk Behavior Among Transgender Women of Color. | Jae Sevelius
- (2020) Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities. | Shoshana K. Goldberg
- (2019) Black Fugitivity Un/Gendered. | Marquis Bey
- (2020) When Queerness Meets Intersectional Thinking: Revolutionizing Parallels, Histories, and Contestations. | Christian D. Chan
- (2020) The Souls of Black Queer Female Folk. | Michelle M. Wright
- (2019) Re-Imagining Masculinities: How Black Queer Feminism Can Liberate Black People from the Toxicity of Patriarchal Masculinity | Ja'nina J. Garrett-Walker
- (2021) “Talk about Bodies”: Recommendations for Using Transgender-Inclusive Language in Sex Education Curricula | Diana Tordoff.
- (2018) Using Education Law as a Tool to Empower Social Justice Leaders to Promote LGBTQ Inclusion. | Maria M. Lewis
- (2017) Sexual minority teachers as activist-educators for social justice. | Kristopher Wells
- (2020) 'Reclaiming my time' amid organizational change: A dialectical approach to support the thriving and career development for faculty at the margins. | Tiffany Davis
- (2016) Queering student perspectives: gender, sexuality and activism in school. | Kathleen O. Elliott
- (2020) Queer activist leadership: An exploration of queer leadership in higher education. | Jonathan T. Pryor
- (2016) Faculty as Sources of Support for LGBTQ College Students. | Jodi L. Linley
- (2021) Clinical psychology PhD students' admission experiences: Implications for recruiting racial/ethnic minority and LGBTQ students. | Loretta Hsueh
- (2018) 'Bumpin’ up against people and their beliefs': Narratives of student affairs administrators creating change for LGBTQ students in the South | Christopher Broadhurst
- (2014) Bringing LGBTQ Topics into the Social Studies Classroom. | Brad M. Maguth
- (2020) Repositioning Cultural Competency with Clinical Doctoral Students: Unpacking Intersectionality, Standpoint Theory, and Multiple Minority Stress/Resilience. | Chana Etengoff
- (2011) Queering Expertise: Counterpublics, Social Change, and the Corporeal Dilemmas of LGBTQ Equality. | Bryan J. McCann
- (2020) Transforming Primary Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Collaborative Quality Improvement Initiative. | Bruce Furness
- (2021) Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational Diasporic Queers‐of‐Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema. | Harjant Gill
- (2020) "A More Thorough Resistance"? Coalition, Critique, and the Intersectional Promise of Queer Theory. | Elena Gambino
- (2021) Development and initial validation of the Queer People of Color Identity Affirmation Scale. | Monica A. Ghabrial
- (2020) Identity Management and Community Belonging: The Coming Out Careers of Young Disabled LGBT+ Persons. | Alex Toft
- (2018) Same-Sex Marriage and the Assimilationist Dilemma: A Research Agenda on Marriage Equality and the Future of LGBTQ Activism, Politics, Communities, and Identities. | Mary Bernstein
- (2022) Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in the United States | Jack Turban
- (2018) Improving the Mental Health Outcomes of LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study. | Kirstin R. Painter
- (2019) LGBTQ+ Latinx Young Adults' Health Autonomy in Resisting Cultural Stigma | by Rachel M. Schmitz
- (2019) Platforms and Patterns for Practice: LGBTQ+ Youths' Use of Information and Communication Technologies. | Lauren B. McInroy
- (2015) Intersectional Mobilization, Social Movement Spillover, and Queer Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement. | Veronica Terriquez
