Sports and Culture

US: ACLU responds to lawsuit attacking transgender student athletes

“Today’s complaint filed in Connecticut targeting the inclusion of transgender girls in girls’ athletics and specifically naming Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood is a dangerous distortion of both law and science in the service of excluding trans youth from public life.”

US: Bayard Rustin, gay civil rights icon, pardoned by California governor for anti-gay charges

Rustin, a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was arrested in 1953 when he was found having sex with two men. He served 50 days in jail.

Stonewall 50: Where next for LGBT+ lives?

"I think it's unfortunate that people argue over who threw the first brick because the relevant thing is not who threw the first brick, but who built the movement, who stayed around and who actually did the tough work," LGBT+ rights activist Power said.