LGBTQ

Prisons Crush Almost All LGBTQ+ Organizing. Our Community Survives.

My name is Tavaria, but people call me Varia, T, Mama T or Queen. Ten years ago, I founded Be…

September 11, 2024

How I Was Forced to Go Through Testosterone Withdrawal

When I moved to Italy for school in August 2022, I brought a three-month supply of testosterone, syringes and needles—the…

November 13, 2023

First Chemsex Harm Reduction Project in Brazil Takes Aim at Misinformation

During the pandemic, public health researchers in São Paulo began noticing what seemed to be an increase in the popularity…

October 16, 2023

FDA Blood Donor Ban Ends for Gay Men, While Staying in Place for Others

On August 7, the Red Cross implemented a new blood donor eligibility assessment that doesn't discriminate against men who have…

August 7, 2023

The Only Openly LGBTQ Prisoner-Led Community in Tennessee

I thought I was too old to have to worry about being raped in prison. But as his sweat dripped…

July 26, 2023

Seroquel Gave Me a Reminder That All Drugs Are Merely Tools

Drugs are not good or bad. They are simply morally neutral tools which can help or hurt, depending on context.…

August 30, 2022

Harm Reduction and Liberation for Black Trans Drug Users in Brazil

More transgender people are murdered in Brazil than any other country in the world. Though the government criminalized queer- and…

February 28, 2022

David Stuart: An Inspirational Leader in Chemsex Harm Reduction

The harm reduction and LGBTQ health movements have unexpectedly lost a leader, David Stuart. On January 12, the news was…

January 19, 2022

How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People

On a Saturday night two years ago, Stann Fransisco was driving back home to New Mexico after visiting their parents…

December 2, 2021

“I Want to Feel Joyful”: Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza on Pride, Juneteenth and LGBTQ Labor

Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza is many things: Black, Rwandan, queer, an immigrant. They are an advocate, organizer and trainer currently serving as…

June 28, 2021