January - 2021

Jan 26
5 min

Joe Biden’s first week as President has already made us proud

January 26, 2021 QueerForty.com Just days after the Inauguration, President Joe Biden has implemented major LGBTQ improvements. I don’t fall in love with politicians. That’s a dangerous ideological path to stumble down. But I am in love with justice and democracy and anyone who takes me in that direction has my ear. I was listening hard at the Inauguration for those two themes and they were writ large. Not just in the words President Joe Biden spoke, but in what he had craft

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Victoria A. Brownworth

Jan 21
4 min

Herstory Made

January 20, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News I have waited for this Inauguration Day my entire life. Waited to see a woman sworn in to the top of the ticket. Waited for representation after 244 years of male presidents and vice-presidents. Waited to see the history of lesbian suffragists like Susan B. Anthony in the 19th century and Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw in the 20th century come to fruition. In 1910, my then-teenaged maternal grandmother was amon

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U.S. Supreme Court rules against Philadelphia in foster parents case

Justice Department to defend religious schools’ exemption from anti-LGBTQ discrimination laws

New report finds that corporations are rainbow-washing Pride

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VICTORIA A. BROWNWORTH

Your silence will not protect you. -- Audre Lorde

Joe Biden’s first week as President has already made us proud

Herstory Made

U.S. Supreme Court rules against Philadelphia in foster parents case

Telling the Stories of Our Lives

Justice Department to defend religious schools’ exemption from anti-LGBTQ discrimination laws

New report finds that corporations are rainbow-washing Pride