Health care is a weighted issue for LGBTQ+ people. Due to income disparities, particularly for lesbians, bisexual and trans women and people of color, access to health care and essential services is often limited. Among queer and trans people, cancer is more prevalent, HIV is more prevalent, autoimmune disease is more prevalentand substance abuse is more prevalent. Another issue which is rarely […]
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Why aren’t soap operas more gay?
Soaps are failing LGBTQ+ viewers. With four network soaps, all of which have been airing for decades, the dearth of representation of LGBTQ+ storylines is disappointing at best. Looking back at queer storylines over the years, soaps seem to be moving backward, not forward, from some groundbreaking characters and storylines that debuted decades ago to little […]
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The dark history of ‘Witch’ as a weapon against LGBTQ+ women
Witch. We hear women called this all the time. Sometimes it’s meant as a substitute for the misogynist b word. But “witch” is not a benign slur to fling at women. The history of women being called witches is grim. Demonizing, torture and killing of women — particularly lesbians or women thought to be lesbians […]
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The Lavender Scare: The case against homosexuals
Special to News is Out from the LGBT History Project. There is perhaps no more critical election in U.S. history than the one in which Americans vote Nov. 5. Vice President Kamala Harris has said repeatedly as she campaigns that former president Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy as well as to a myriad […]
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Exploring LGBTQ+ visibility in the WNBA: Players, partners and Pride
The WNBA finals were in full swing, and the lesbians were playing to win. In a stunning upset, the Minnesota Lynx team beat the New York Liberty 95-93 in overtime in game one of the WNBA finals on Oct. 10. It was a nail-biter as the Lynx flipped a 15-point deficit into an amazing turnaround […]
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Is LGBTQ+ TV growing or in stasis?
America is more LGBTQ+ than ever. The latest 2024 Gallup poll finds LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. expanding annually with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation other than heterosexual. This percentage is up a full 2% from 5.6% four years ago and is more than double […]
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When NOW purged lesbians
Special to News is Out from the LGBT History Project. The website of The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) describes Betty Friedan as “co-founder of the National Organization for Women” (NOW) and “one of the early leaders of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Her 1963 best-selling book, The Feminine Mystique, gave voice to millions of […]