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[…] Restrict participation and expand discrimination in the military Reversing policies allowing transgender people to serve in the military Expelling transgender troops from the military Expelling people living with HIV from the military Repress education policy Closing the Department of Education. Disallowing students using names or pronouns that don’t match the sex on their birth certificate, and stating […]

[…] queen known for her signature bald head. She may not have won the crown but she won many of the audience’s hearts for her advocacy as an HIV positive individual on national television back in 2009 when stigma was a lot higher than it is today. Jose Antonio Vargas  A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, […]

[…] story is based on a novel written and adapted by the film’s lead, acclaimed trans multi-hyphenate Camila Sosa Villada. Thesis on a Domestication explores the stigmatization of HIV/AIDS, desire, eroticism, and the family ties of a trans actress. Set against the backdrop of her public persona and her attempt to create a domestic life, […]

[…] and Mexico did not pay for it. Creating Migrant “Protection” Protocols requiring asylum seekers at the U.S. southern border to be returned to Mexico, including LGBTQ and HIV-positive people who endured human rights abuses in Mexico. Ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected an estimated 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, including […]

[…] in education, employment, marriage, healthcare, housing, and military service. Photo credit: Lambda Legal Cases include Doe v. SEPTA (1994) which  strengthened privacy protections for individuals living with HIV/AIDS which  establishing important precedent for medical confidentiality and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) which legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S. It also dives into cases like Lawrence […]

[…] Wilde to the “pansy craze” of the 1920s that influenced Universal Monsters and Hitchcock; from the Lavender Scare alien invasion films of the mid-20th century to the HIV/AIDS obsessed bloodletting of 80s vampire films, this doc re-examines horror stories as tales of survival that resonate with queer audiences everywhere. Don’t miss Queer for Fear […]

[…] before, as have all other marginalized communities, and the pain is real today. But as we saw from the Lavender Scare to the Stonewall Uprising, from the HIV epidemic to the defeat and victory for marriage, every breakdown can lead to a breakthrough. We must see this moment of crisis as another catalyst for […]

[…] An openly transgender attorney will present to the justices for the first time in Court history: Chase Strangio, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. More than 30 friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the plaintiffs were submitted by 20 states; the American Bar Association, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, National Women’s […]