Queer and Trans People Were Under Attack in 2025. Here’s How We Fought Back.

https://murica.website/2025/12/queer-and-trans-people-were-under-attack-in-2025-heres-how-we-fought-back/

#MembertouFirstNation connects with #Pride #CapeBreton on deeper level

'As traditional people we know how it feels to go underground and have our ceremonies hidden,' says Jeff Ward

CBC · Posted: Aug 09, 2019

"As #PrideCapeBreton winds down, some people on the #Membertou First Nation say the community's large presence in the festivities is a natural fit.

"This year, Membertou hosted the popular #DragQueenBingo event, the Membertou pedway was lit up in Pride colours, the flags at the #MembertouHeritagePark were swapped for #LGBTQ flags and there was a Membertou float in the #PrideParade.

"Jeff Ward, manager of the heritage park, said participating in Pride events is something the community connects with.

"' 'As traditional people, we know how it feels to go underground and have our ceremonies hidden,' he said, pointing to how revisions in the Indian Act in 1951 removed a ban on ceremonies.

A personal connection

"Andrea Dennis works at the heritage park. She said staff secured #TwoSpirit flags for the first time and people have been snapping them up.

"Two-spirit is a term sometimes used by #IndigenousPeople to describe #gay, #lesbian, #transgender or #NonBinary people. The flag has two feathers on top of the traditional rainbow pattern.

"Dennis said her brother, who is dead, was two-spirit. She said when he first came out, he was harassed. Her brother moved to Toronto, but he was still harassed.

"She believes things have changed for the better.

" 'His spirit is still alive in me,' said Dennis. 'Even going to a Pride parade reminds me of him, it's like he's still there.' "

Read more:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pride-cape-breton-membertou-1.5241873

#IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesDay #CapeBretonNS #FirstNations #LGTBQRights #IndigenousRights #LGBTQNativeAmericans #HumanRights

#lgtbqrights

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64714625

Pick the kids up from school. Attend a rally for fair teacher pay. Grab dinner from our local taquería. Facilitate a Rainbow Families meeting.

Life in the 21st century.

#activism #organizing #TeacherPay #FairPay #LGTBQrights

Club Q shooting victim ‘wanted to save the family I found’

“Thankfully, we are a family and family looks after one another”

ow.ly/AHtk50LOoqM

#ClubQ #GunViolence #LGTBQrights

1st piece from a new #substack I've started - Dispatches From Oz, about buildings, behavior, evolution, education, culture, politics, plus…

This one is about increasing the perception of LGBTQ+ as normative, including via design. Also check out the archive for past examples from other media to see how this substack could unfold. Subscribe if you're curious.

#inclusivedesign #prosocial #genderinclusion #lgbtqiaplus #stakeholderengagement #safespaces #lgtbqrights #woke

https://marcelharmon67.substack.com/p/popping-bubbles-of-hate-and-ignorance?sd=p

Club Q owner: Shooting comes amid a new ‘type of hate’

“Lying about our community, and making them into something they are not, creates a different type of hate"

https://sentinelcolorado.com/news/state-and-region/colorado-news/club-q-owner-shooting-comes-amid-a-new-type-of-hate/

#COpolitics #ClubQ #LGTBQrights #HateSpeech