LGBTQ People and The Suicide Rates within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Community. The affliction of suicides within the LGBT community has long fascinated social commentators and advocates for the community. I would like to take on a slightly different tack. We know that most of the suicides are . . . read more
Intersex people must stand up against genital mutilation of children. Among all the current discussions centered around gender identity as a spectrum, whether or not people believe it is different from the sex binary male-female, there is often the misconception that biological sex can be divided in as rigid . . . read more
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 century . . . read more
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
I remember how one of my favorite parts of young adult novels was the one when a parent had to go through the agonizingly awkward, for both parties, process of having The Talk with their teenage kid or kids. I remember how all the taboos I had developed around sex . . . read more
Why African Witches bewitching LGBT? Even voodoo refuses to work. The intersection between African traditional religion and the gay lifestyle is a complicated one. Although few of the traditional Africa mythologies specifically talk about homosexuality, it is nothing . . . read more
Dear Planned Parenthood Protester Who Called Me a Baby-Killer, It was a fine, sunny morning shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration to the White House that the two of us first met. I had just parked my battered old car at the parking lot of the Planned Parenthood clinic . . . read more
In our fight for LGBT Equality, we’ve written an open letter addressed to the newly-elected president of the United States, Donald Trump. Campaign and Election On November 8th, to the . . . read more
