CIQ: Central Indiana Queers

Brand new group in the Central Indiana area formed to facilitate education and build community among queer-identified, sex-positive individuals who are 18 and up. Avatar from: https://toppun.com/Queer-Designs.html Header Image: Angie Wilson "Questioning" 2013, ink on fabric

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Prince and the queer body: Our dirty patron saint of pop gave me permission to think outside the gender binary

Prince’s shapeshifting, freedom and mind-blowing sexuality changed what and how I thought men and women could be

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Park Cannon, the Black, Queer, Millennial Woman in the Georgia State House, is a Very Vocal Minority

Park Cannon is one of just four openly LGBTQ Black officials in state legislatures nationwide. Here, she tells Colorlines about her unorthodox path to becoming a state representative, the homophobia she faced during the election and some of the things that inspired her along the way.

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Making a Case for Queer Superheroes in Hollywood

Over 60 comic characters will grace the big screen this year. They’ll be white, black, Asian, male and female but there’s one you won’t see: an LGBTQ superhero.

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Queer eye

Queertographer Jess T. Dugan documents trans bodies in daring new project There’s a photograph of Jess T. Dugan from 2005 with bandages over where her breast

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“If you don’t see femmes as queers, it’s because you choose to not see us. You are invested in our erasure. We are here. We have always been here.”

Femme Space is a photo project exploring queer femme identity and reclamation of space. Queer femmes of all genders choose locations and co-conspire with photographer, Amanda Arkansassy Harris to reclaim sites of marginalization, erasure and invisibility through portraiture. Femme Space exists to draw attention to the experiences of queer femmes and amplify our stories in art and media.

Find out more about the project here.

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What does queer masculinity look like in 2015?

"I am interested in a version of masculinity that is more expansive, and more vulnerable, than the kind often represented in mainstream culture."

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New Foundation Launches to Support LGBT Athletes and Coaches

The Sports Equality Foundation is focused on providing empowerment and guidance to athletes, coaches and leaders who are coming out.

Just as every sports legend has someone in their past to whom they once turned for help — to build them up, to lend a hand, to train their bodies beyond what the average human can endure — starting today, out LGBT athletes and coaches will have a new resource to help level the playing field. The Sports Equality Foundation — aimed at providing support and encouragement to LGBT athletes, coaches and team leaders — launches today.

“Sports is an important key to unlocking hearts and minds in our shifting culture,” said board co-chair Kathleen Hatch, past president of NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation, in a statement.

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Philanthropist donates $2m to fund first ever trans studies chair

A billionaire philanthropist has donated $2 million to a university to establish a chair of transgender studies.

The position will be funded by American Jennifer Pritzker, who donated the money to the University of Victoria through her Tawani Foundation. No other position like it is believed to exist in global academia. Half of the money will be given to fund the chair position for the next five years, and the other half is to match other donations to the course.

The inaugural chair will be Aaron Devor, a sociology professor who has studied trans issues for over thirty years.

“Far too many trans and gender-nonconforming people still live in poverty and fear,” Dr Devor said in a statement. “As the inaugural chair, I will act as a resource locally and internationally for those needing information for their own research or for policy development, as well as building linkages between community-based and academic scholars working in transgender studies.”

Dr Devor founded the same university’s transgender archives, which were created in 2012. The archive aims to keep a historical record of trans history particularly of trans activists. The Tawani Foundation is a supporter of military history, and Ms Pritzker is out as trans and formerly an army lieutenant colonel.

“The chair in transgender studies sets [University of Victoria] apart,” The University of Victoria President Jamie Cassels said in a statement. “I am proud of our campus community’s commitment to diversity, as well as grateful to Dr Devor, Lieutenant Colonel Pritzker, the Tawani Foundation and all those who help us continually learn and grow in a welcoming environment that promotes the rights and affirms the dignity of all persons.”

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Three trans women dead and another stabbed in one day in Brazil

A trans woman has been stabbed to death in Brasil, and another seriously injured.

Two cases, separate, but possibly rated crimes, took place on Sunday 17 January in the centre of Capão da Canoa, Brazil. Nathallya Figueiredo, 25, who had recently arrived form France, was found in her car with multiple stab wounds, and died en route to the hospital. A second case of a stabbing, of Avenida Atlântica, was stabbed in the chest and arm, and was taken to the Santa Luiza Hospital.

She remains in serious condition and police are investigating whether the two cases are linked.

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The museum is open daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free.

The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum (1901 Fort Pl., S.E.) features a display on the “emergence of the gay community” in D.C.

The display, part of its new exhibit Twelve Years That Shook and Shaped Washington:1963-1975, traces the gay community’s establishment in society, especially in D.C.public life. It makes mention of key turning points in gay D.C. history such as D.C becoming the first city to have its school board ban sexual orientation discrimination in 1972. Another important event mentioned is Mayor Washington signing off on D.C. legislation to prevent gay discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodation and bank credit.

The Washington Blade, originally titled “The Gay Blade,” is featured in the display, with a newspaper distribution box and copies of the very first issue of the Blade on display.

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President Marco Rubio would overturn marriage equality

The GOP presidential candidate lays out his plan to end same-sex marriage.

Senator Marco Rubio, one of many terrifying GOP presidential candidates, explained at length on Meet the Press that if he were elected president, he would find a way to reverse the SCOTUS decision that legalized marriage equality. He’s got it all planned out. 

“I don’t believe any case law is settled law,” he said. “Any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed.”

While he declined to endorse a constitutional amendment that would overturn Obergefell (“that would be conceding that the current Constitution is somehow wrong and needs to be fixed”), Rubio said each state should be allowed its own definition of marriage.

“If you want to change the definition of marriage, then you need to go to state legislatures and get them to change it,” he said. “Because states have always defined marriage. And that’s why some people get married in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonator.”

I am downright TERRIFIED of what will happen if any of these GOP candidates is elected. I want to believe it’s impossible, but you really never know. 

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Beyond 'he' and 'she': The rise of non-binary pronouns

The pronoun "he" refers to males and "she" to females. But some people are neither - and in the US an increasing number are choosing different pronouns.

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The Truth About Transgender Suicide

For this year's transgender awareness week I wanted to write about something that the transgender community and its allies are often afraid to discuss. Those who want to drive transgender people into

CN: suicide, transphobia, assault, sexual assault, violence, reparative therapy, medicalisation, rape, abuse, racism

This article has an indepth look at the factors which cause increased suicide risk amoung trans and gender non-conforming people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/the-truth-about-transgend_b…

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8 Cats That Embody The Struggles of Binding

1. Trying to get a new binder over your head

2. Almost all the way on

3. Realizing you may have bought your binder one size too small

4. Feeling hot and confident with your binder wearing buddies.

5. How you feel when you’re wearing your binder

6. How you actually look in your binder

7. The moment you realize your binder is about to roll up

8. The worse moment when you realize there is not a private spot in sight where you can fix your binder

By Hudson George Krakowski

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Both sides of the debate are digging in their heels, with supporters of the nondiscrimination ordinance demanding 'all or nothing,' while those opposed are equally entrenched.

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Straight People Didn’t Get The Memo About Holiday Spirit, Are Being Real Assholes | Autostraddle

A gay deaf woman was attacked in anti-gay crime in the UK, an NBA player apologizes for calling a ref an anti-gay slur, a hung jury in the first case in connection to Freddie Gray's death, a leading center for ex-trans therapy is finally being shut down and more news!