Gender Sensitivity is the belief that people of all genders should be treated with respect. This includes respecting people’s pronouns (the words they use to describe themselves, such as he/him, she/her or they/them), their chosen name and their preferred gender pronoun. It also means using language that is inclusive...
The forms of discrimination trans – binary and non-binary – people face both in everyday life and on multiple legal level vary. While most people are aware of the alarming truth when it comes to harassment, violence, and marginalization, we also need to consider the disheartening lack of progress...
Summer Camps for LGBT Children Where do LGBT people go to socialize, meet other LGBT people and feel like they belong? Gay bars and clubs, right? While for many this may be true and sufficient, unfortunately such spaces – that constitute the majority of LGBT safe spaces, and more-often-than-not...
What is online activism? Internet activism is a form of activism that uses tools offered by online technologies: that is social media, e-mail, e-campaigning, and other internet tools. This may include protesting, campaigning, fundraising, lobbying, mobilizing and organizing people against a common cause. From the 80s onwards there have...
It’s 2017 and the Big Picture of activism certainly is not what it used to be a few years ago. With technology advancing every day, we have passed in a new era: that of social media activism, hashtag activism, or “hashtivism”. It is much easier today than it once...
When we discuss trans people’s wellbeing and healthcare, it’s important not to forget issues that concern transgender children and teenagers, especially considering that there are multiple issues exclusive to these ages, such as bullying, dysphoria and mental health issues, the turbulence that puberty brings in the first place. Transgender...
LGBT Sex Education: Why LGBTIQ Sexuality is Conspicuously Absent from the National Curriculum Any LGBTIQ person that assume they are over the darkest parts of discrimination are deluding themselves. Certainly, there have been major victories. It is no longer acceptable to imprison people for “sodomy” in most civilized states...
What bisexual meaning? Bisexuality is the romantic and/or sexual attraction to both men and women. This term is used to describe people who are attracted to more than one gender. Bisexuality is often misunderstood because many people assume that bisexuals are equally attracted to both men and women. However,...
LGBTIQ People, Discriminated Against and Homeless, The Very Bottom of Deprived Communities Homelessness is something that you only read about in certain speciality papers. It is not something that you think will happen to you…until it actually happens to you. The downward slope to homelessness can begin as nonchalantly...
Closet Cases And Protective Nets for the Low Hanging Fruit In all its various forms; sexual abuse and grooming are unacceptable. However, when it comes to the LGBTIQ community; gay youths are increasingly finding themselves in the cross hairs of the pedophiles. Interestingly some of their abusers identify as...
HIV Stigma, who is really responsible? All of Us!!! Here I was doing post-testing counselling for this young girl. She was worried that her boyfriend was going to infect her with HIV. He was sleeping with everything moving but she was insistent that she still wanted to be with...
Gay Men Issues – In our movements for queer liberation, there are often people who remain underrepresented by the mainstream narratives, even though they belong in the LGBTQ Community and are affected by most of the issues LGBTQ people have to face. That mainstream narrative is often shaped based...
Gay Problems, A Lifestyle Dilemma I keep asking myself what could I have possibly spent the money on. If I had been clubbing and shopping my life away, I would at least have something to remember it by. Instead I am left with regrets and stress. Because I am...
With the conservative government of Trump in the US, which will put the lives of thousands of LGBT+ people at risk, and the contrasting climate in bright examples such as that of Malta that made conversion therapy illegal, the debate on the so called “corrective”, “reparative”, or “ex-gay” therapies...
Asylum Seekers: One of the most serious issues the world has faced in recent years, that can be compared to nothing else, neither historically nor in its simultaneity with other global issues, is the refugee crisis, considered to be the largest one to take place in over half a...
Among the biggest issues the LGBTQIA+ community faces globally, are mental health issues and the discussion around them is one that needs to be had over and over again, in order to establish change in the life of individuals, and shape communities into safer, caregiving spaces that can encompass...
Sexual Assault: The Crime that Dare Not Speak its Name. One of the downsides of being part of an unprotected minority; is the possibility that few will care when you are a victim of crime. For quite some time, there have been stories of date rape within the LGBTIQ...
You’re probably already tired of hearing about how every story in the LGBTQIA+ community is written by a different author. Yes, we get it, each and every one of us is unique, and how that couldn’t be so, in a community with people coming from different countries, racial backgrounds,...
What the LGBT community needs is allies. Every letter of the acronym does, in common but also in particular ways: we all need allies to stand by us and fight against specific problems of varying shapes and sizes. Especially the less privileged identities and intersections of the community need...
Gay Parents: Turning The Adoption Dogma On Its Head Perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of the anti-gay movements in many parts of the world has been the notion that gay people are intrinsically bad parents. Some argue that they do not deserve to be parents at all...
