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04/04/2019

I Told My Mom I Hire Sex Workers And Her Response Changed Our Relationship

I Told My Mom I Hire Sex Workers And Her Response Changed Our Relationship

I was hiding these experiences from my mom and it was killing me.

04/04/2019

'My child is free': Congresswoman gives tearful speech about nonbinary loved one

'My child is free': Congresswoman gives tearful speech about nonbinary loved one

At an Equality Act hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Pramila Jayapal made the deeply personal revelation.

03/29/2019

The Personal Politics of “Passing”

The Personal Politics of “Passing”

The anatomy of getting “clocked.”

03/15/2019

Sam Smith Comes Out as Non-Binary, Genderqueer

Sam Smith Comes Out as Non-Binary, Genderqueer

"I am not male or female. I think I float somewhere in between — somewhat on the spectrum,” Smith says in a new interview.

02/28/2019

UNM LGBTQ Resource Center

Today for Black History Month, we honor lesbian icon Gladys Bentley, who is a pianist, entertainer, and a blues singer of the Harlem Renaissance.Harlem during the roaring twenties was a time where racial, cultural and sexual boundaries seemed permeable in a way that they hadn’t been before.

While living in a place where she wasn’t entirely accepted, Bentley never backed down. Bentley questioned her identity as a child and showed an interest in women at 8 years old, with a crush on a female schoolteacher. After her public marriage in 1931, Bentley continued performing in gay clubs like Mona’s, the country’s first openly lesbian nightclub.

02/21/2019

Jussie Smollett’s arrest doesn’t diminish the reality of hate crimes

Jussie Smollett’s arrest doesn’t diminish the reality of hate crimes

Smollett was arrested for allegedly filing a false police report in a hoax. But hate crimes are real and widespread.

02/13/2019

Love & Sex 2019 | Santa Fe Reporter

Love & Sex 2019 | Santa Fe Reporter

For the third year running, we're proud to present our resurrected Love and Sex issue! It's an admittedly brief but powerful overview of the good, the bad and the ugly facing lovers, sexers and all points in between with pieces from sex experts, queer artists, celebrated writers and lovers of life.....

02/13/2019

TLC wins #FreeChristina case after 5 year battle, sets precedent for trans survivors of human trafficking | Transgender Law Center

TLC wins #FreeChristina case after 5 year battle, sets precedent for trans survivors of human trafficking | Transgender Law Center

TLC wins #FreeChristina case after 5 year battle, sets precedent for trans survivors of human trafficking February 8, 2019 | by admin | Cases, Detention Project, Featured, Immigration, Legal | No Comments Christina Lopez and her mom (Albuquerque, NM) – Transgender Law Center celebrated this mornin...

02/08/2019

Skeptical Liberalism

Skeptical Liberalism

TERFs are trash. If your “feminism” has as a tenet the supposition that trans women are engaged in the “erasure” of women, you are not someone worthy of polite company.

Yes, you. I am challenging you, if you are thinking about a snarky reply. I am talking to you, person about to reply that “men can’t just decide to be women.” You’re trash. Garbage.

Trans men are men, trans women are women. Keep your concerns as to the gender of other people to what is in your own pants, and out of others. Thanks.

02/07/2019

Jussie Smollett and the Erasure of Compounded Oppression

Jussie Smollett and the Erasure of Compounded Oppression

Outrage over racist homophobic attacks is nice but we need your solidarity.

02/04/2019

UNM LGBTQ Resource Center

Today for Black History Month, we honor Josephine Baker. She is one of the first internationally recognized African American entertainers who identifies as bisexual. After facing abuse and racial discrimination in America, she moved to France where she became a celebrated performer and the first black woman to star in a major motion picture. When she returned to the U.S. a decade later, American audiences rejected her, with The New York Times calling her, “a negro wench”. She used her platform to advocate for desegregation, refused to perform in segregated venues and even spoke at the 1963 March on Washington.

02/04/2019

Sex with Timaree

Sex with Timaree

I'll say it again: if Harris is the nominee in 2020, she has my vote against any Republican. But if she wants to ride LGBT community support to that point, she has to reckon with her attempts to block treatment for trans folks in prison.

01/31/2019

There *Are* Asexual Polyamorous People, You Know - Poly.Land

There *Are* Asexual Polyamorous People, You Know - Poly.Land

A lot of people assume that this idea that polyamory is about having loving, committed relationships is all a bunch of hooey. Secretly, they argue, deep down inside, all polyamorists are looking for is sex. It’s about the sex. The ease of having more access to greater sexual variety. And the abili...

01/30/2019

Haaland Celebrates Equality Caucus Membership with Special Albuquerque Guest

Haaland Celebrates Equality Caucus Membership with Special Albuquerque Guest

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) celebrated her new membership on the Equality Caucus with special guest Bunnie Benton Cruse, Chair of the New Mexico Transgender Resource Center Board of Directors and advocate from Albuquerque. Bunnie Benton Cruse is known for her many appearan...

01/29/2019

Empire's Jussie Smollett hospitalized after racist, homophobic attack outside Chicago restaurant

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Actor Jussie Smollett, who stars as middle son Jamal Lyon on Fox’s Empire, is in good condition at a Chicago hospital today after being attacked by two men in the city’s Loop area around 2 a.m. last night. Smollett was reportedly exiting a Subway restaurant when he was approached by two white me...

01/27/2019

LGBT Navajos Discover Unexpected Champions: Their Grandparents

LGBT Navajos Discover Unexpected Champions: Their Grandparents

LGBT Navajo youth are three times as likely to attempt suicide as their non-Native counterparts. Some are finding unexpected allies among elders whose tradition embraces the "two spirited."

01/26/2019

Non-binary NASA intern goes viral for hitting out at Trump's trans military ban

Non-binary NASA intern goes viral for hitting out at Trump's trans military ban

It comes after a Supreme Court ruling backed the Trump administration's planned policy.

01/22/2019

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

Bad news out of the Supreme Court this morning.

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived the Trump administration’s policy of barring most transgender people from serving in the military. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices temporarily stayed trial court decisions blocking the policy while litigation in the lower courts moves forward.

The vote was 5 to 4. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented."

12/30/2018

How Human Bones Reveal the Fallacy of a Biological Sex Binary

How Human Bones Reveal the Fallacy of a Biological Sex Binary

Science keeps showing us that sex also doesn't fit in a binary, whether it be determined by genitals, chromosomes, hormones, or skeletons.

12/25/2018

Alex Sebastian Morgan

Alex Sebastian Morgan

"Too often, for Cohen and countless other LGBTQ patients across the country, the problem begins not in the exam room but in the classroom — physicians lack sufficient training in how to provide competent, affirming care for patients who identify as members of sexual and gender minority (SGM) groups, especially for transgender people.

This educational gap has led to alarming health disparities for SGM patients, experts report. According to Healthy People 2020, a program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, transgender people alone experience disproportionate rates of suicide, homelessness, substance use, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, mental health disorders, and victimization, yet they also confront barriers to accessing effective health care.

Students, faculty, and staff at Harvard Medical School (HMS) are joining forces to change that.

This fall, Harvard Medical School launched the Sexual and Gender Minorities Health Equity Initiative, a three-year plan to amend the core M.D. curriculum so that all students and faculty clinicians can become exceptionally well equipped to provide high-quality, holistic health care for sexual and gender minority patients of all ages. The plan encompasses curriculum reform, faculty development, continuous quality assessment, and global dissemination, as well as increased efforts to recruit and support students, faculty, and staff with interests or experience in SGM health."

11/30/2018

UNM LGBTQ Resource Center

UNM LGBTQ Resource Center

Approximately 75% of people living with HIV globally were aware of their HIV status in 2017. The remaining 25% (over 9 million people) still need access to HIV testing services. HIV testing is an essential gateway to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services.

11/07/2018

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BREAKING: Sharice Davids (@shariceforcongress) an openly gay Native American just defeated a Republican incumbent and flipped a red seat blue. Sorry I used this photo Sharice but you are a badass MMA fighter and I had to show that rock! CONGRATS!!!

11/07/2018

HuffPost Women

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Making history.

10/24/2018

Alok Vaid-Menon

Alok Vaid-Menon

so important !!!

10/23/2018

Trans People Say They #WontBeErased As Trump Administration Mulls Defining 'Sex'

Trans People Say They #WontBeErased As Trump Administration Mulls Defining 'Sex'

"The agency's proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with," The New York Times reported. Reaction was swift.

10/11/2018

Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico

Happy National Coming Out Day!

"There is no right time to come out, and fluid identities are valid too!" Great reminders from the Trevor Project!

If you need support, RCCCNM is here for you! But so are our friends at Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico and UNM LGBTQ Resource Center and CNM LGBTQ + Group. We are all here to support you!

09/27/2018

The Party of Reason and Progress - PORP

The Party of Reason and Progress - PORP

"Transgender individuals have been misunderstood and subjected to abject discrimination in nearly every civilization, religion, and culture throughout history. But what does science say about gender identity?"

As PORP volunteer write Aseem Prasher explains, science supports transgender identity.

09/18/2018

Assigned Male Comics

***UPDATE : Thank you all for your enthusiasm!! I received over 1500 requests for books, and I'm gonna try to honor all (or most) of them, but as shipping will be quite expensive (15 to 20$ each package), I won't take any new message until the GoFundMe campaign has reached at least the first goal. So please pledge to the compaign or share it so I can send as many as possible!

09/07/2018

The Body Is Not an Apology

The Body Is Not an Apology

“In my reporting I heard from several people who said that the word is particularly troubling for trans and gender-nonconforming people. “As a transgender woman, I consciously began trying to stop using guys some years ago,” says Brad Ward, a college counselor at a high school in Atherton, California. She added, “When I’m included with a group that is called guys, there’s some pain, since it takes me back to my male days in a way that I’d rather not go.””

09/06/2018

Historic India verdict legalises gay sex

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The ruling is a victory for many who have fought to end discrimination against same-sex couples.

08/28/2018

Jimanekia Eborn

Jimanekia Eborn

"I think eating disorders often go undetected in the LGBTQ community because there aren’t always safe places for us to access resources."

I loved talking with Sophie Saint Thomas about eating disorders. And sharing a bit of my story.

08/26/2018

Click here to support Help Karyn Not Be Homeless organized by Karyn Willow Logan

Local trans veteran needs help, please give if able.

My name is Karyn Logan. I'm a transgender veteran in the process of getting divorced. And I have anxiety and depression which prevents me from holding down a "real" job. I'm not able to take care of myself financially and will soon have very few options. I only get 10% disability from the...

08/24/2018

A Visual Record of the Joys, Fears and Hopes of Older Transgender People

A Visual Record of the Joys, Fears and Hopes of Older Transgender People

Transgender and gender variant issues have more recently become part of the public consciousness, but many narratives leave out those who are older.

08/21/2018

NOGLSTP

NOGLSTP

Wonderful article featuring NOGLSTP and our Founder, Shelley Diamond. https://www.outfrontmagazine.com/inthemag/putting-together-the-pieces-lgbtq-and-stem/

08/16/2018

Oklahoma School Shuts Down for 2 Days After Parents Threaten Transgender 7th Grader on Facebook

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One parent suggested a "good sharp knife" could stop the student