October - 2021

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 27, 2021
4 min

Tax the Rich, Feed the Poor

October 27, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News Tax the rich. It’s a sentiment a majority of Americans agree with. It seems like an uncomplicated message. Yet the months-long battle in the Senate over President Biden’s sweeping and essential infrastructure and social structure bills hinges in part on this issue. Biden wants anyone with an income of $400,000 or above to pay their fair share in taxes, which in turn will help pay for the costs in his Build Back Better Act. According to

Angela Davis is America’s Most Famous Living Revolutionary. She’s Also a lesbian.“

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 25, 2021
6 min

Angela Davis is America’s Most Famous Living Revolutionary. She’s Also a lesbian.“

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” October 25, 2021 LGBTQ Nation Angela Davis was interviewed by CSPAN2 on the Civil Rights movement and LGBT rights in 2004. Photo: Screenshot “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” So said Angela Davis, 78, America’s most famous living revolutionary. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the most incendi

Pennsylvania’s Off-Year Election Is Crucial to 2024

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 24, 2021
5 min

Pennsylvania’s Off-Year Election Is Crucial to 2024

October 27, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News The statistics are bold and undeniable: In one term, Donald Trump secured 33 percent of the U.S. Supreme Court justices and 30 percent of the appellate court judges. These are all lifetime appointments that will impact Americans for decades to come. Pennsylvania’s off-year election is November 2. Off-year elections without a major elected official on the ballot are notorious for low voter turnout. Low voter turnout is also problematic fo

LGBTQ History Month: Tee A. Corinne, Photographer of Lesbian Sexuality

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 23, 2021
5 min

LGBTQ History Month: Tee A. Corinne, Photographer of Lesbian Sexuality

October 23, 2021 Out In New Jersey Tee Corinne. (Photo via Tee A. Corinne papers, Coll 263, University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Erotic lesbian photographs and portraits from Tee A. Corinne Over her decades as a lesbian photographer and artist, Tee Corinne said, “I’m one of the most obscure famous artists.” Famous? Yes. Obscure? Certainly not within artistic circles nor within the queer art world where she began doing groundbreaking work in the 19

National Association of Women Judges will No Longer Hold Conferences in States with Anti-LGBTQ Laws

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 20, 2021
3 min

National Association of Women Judges will No Longer Hold Conferences in States with Anti-LGBTQ Laws

October 19, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News In a move that was not without controversy, the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) passed a resolution barring future NAWJ conferences from being held in jurisdictions where LGBTQ protections are repealed or where discriminatory LGBTQ laws are enacted. The measure was passed at the annual conference in Nashville on October 9, but was not announced to the media until Oct. 13. The measure reads: “RESOLVED, That the National Associ

ApocaLGBTQ: The Lavender Tube on Dystopian Dramas and Scary Spices

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 19, 2021
6 min

ApocaLGBTQ: The Lavender Tube on Dystopian Dramas and Scary Spices

October 19, 2021 Bay Area Reporter Ashley Romans and Ben Schnetzer in 'Y: The Last Man' It's pumpkin season. Halloween looms and it's time for some scares. Tucker Carlson provided some unnecessary horror on the tube by attacking new dad Pete Buttigieg for taking paternity leave. Said Carlson, "Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child," Carlson told his Fox News audience on Oct. 14. "Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 17, 2021
6 min

Dave Chappelle, Netflix, and You

October 17, 2021 Edge Media Network No matter what Dave Chappelle and Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos tell you, violence against LGBTQ is real and giving cover for transphobia and homophobia presents a real world threat to LGBTQ people. In 2020 nearly four dozen trans people — mostly trans women of color — were murdered. They were young, mostly poor and had been made expendable by a transphobic and discriminatory cis-het society that devalues trans lives. Those brutal killings,

Pauli Murray is the Most Important Queer American Activist You Probably Haven’t Heard About

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 14, 2021
5 min

Pauli Murray is the Most Important Queer American Activist You Probably Haven’t Heard About

Pauli Murray is, in many respects, the one-name answer to why we need LGBTQ History Month. October 14, 2021 LGBTQ Nation Pauli Murray seated in her study. Photo: Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute (LGBTQ Nation is using she/her pronouns in keeping with Murray’s own writings, but Murray was a transmasculine and gender nonconforming lesbian.) Some say Pauli Murray is the most important American activist you’ve never heard of. An iconoclastic socialist-leaning, g

Combating and Destigmatizing Domestic Violence

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 13, 2021
5 min

Combating and Destigmatizing Domestic Violence

October 13, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News The murder of 22-year-old YouTube influencer Gabby Petito should have been a headline for this Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but it isn’t. Although mainstream media spent weeks highlighting her story while she was missing, that same media has side-stepped the facts of her murder. On Oct. 12, Petito's autopsy report was released. The cause of her death was manual strangulation. Petito’s fiancé, Brian Laundrie, who has been in hidin

Resisting Erasure and Reclaiming Our LGBTQ History

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 8, 2021
6 min

Resisting Erasure and Reclaiming Our LGBTQ History

October 8, 2021 queerforty.com October is LGBTQ History Month. Here’s a shutout to some powerful queer women and queer women of color. An unabashed lover of history who trained to be an historian, each October I write a plethora of stories about queer people who aren’t among the dozen or so LGBTQ people who are written about repetitively. I write most about gender nonconforming lesbians and trans people whose lives have been hidden from history or who have been erased as

NWSL Players Reveal Sexual Abuse by Coaches, Cancel Games

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 6, 2021
5 min

NWSL Players Reveal Sexual Abuse by Coaches, Cancel Games

October 6, 2021 Philadelphia The #MeToo movement has come late to women’s sports. On Sept. 15, four of the top U.S. women gymnasts testified at a Senate hearing about how they had been victimized by longtime USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of hundreds of counts of sexual abuse of gymnasts in 2017 and 2018. Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols also testified about how when they contacted the FBI, nothing was done in response.

Chosen Family Viewing: The Lavender Tube on Pauli Murray, Nuclear Family, Clickbait

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 5, 2021
5 min

Chosen Family Viewing: The Lavender Tube on Pauli Murray, Nuclear Family, Clickbait

October 5, 2021 Bay Area Reporter Happy LGBTQ History Month, everybody! How better to celebrate than with some compelling new queer history? Amazon Prime, HBO and Netflix have some superb new offerings. Nuclear Family It is impossible not to love HBO's amazing three-part documentary series Nuclear Family, even as you sob through at least half of it. It's history, it's personal journey and it tells a provocative and utterly stunning story of one family and the legal battl

Victoria A. Brownworth

Oct 4, 2021
9 min

Will We Ever Raise the Minimum Wage?

October 4, 2021 DAME Magazine The paltry $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage hasn't been raised in over a decade, and the majority of those underpaid hard workers are women, who are treading dangerously close to the poverty line. Jordan Scott remembers watching Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) give a flippant thumbs down and curtsy in the Senate as she voted against raising the minimum wage on March 5. “I was irrationally angry at the time,” said Scott, a hotel worker from Philad

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