“Play like a man, look like a lady.” At Narratively, Britni de la Cretaz looks at the history of lesbianism in early pro women’s baseball and at the beautiful love stories that the movie “A League of Their Own” chose to ignore.
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The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men
Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.
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How Canada has been secretly giving asylum to gay people in Chechnya fleeing persecution
There’s a new underground railroad to Canada. Through a safe house network, the Canadian government has been spiriting away gay Chechen men who face honor killings at their hands of their family. In this conservative Russian republic, the government not only looks away from these heinous crimes, it encourages them.
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The Unforgettable Edie Windsor
It’s said about a lot of people, but true of only a few: There was something special about Edie.
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The Celebrity Jesuit Connecting With LGBTQ Catholics
Father James Martin wants to change the relationship between the queer Catholic community and the Church.
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Finding Her True Self: Queer and Muslim
A Muslim international student came to New York City, and soon embraced her sexuality and all the cultural challenges it would create.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Unapologetic Women
Conservative Values, Meet Drag Values
RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Velour responds to a divisive political climate by celebrating beauty, brains, and belonging.
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Dorothy Allison on How America Devalues Those Who are ‘Other’
Dorothy Allison on how American culture “inherently devalues the poor, the working class, the darks, the queer, the other.”
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Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone
In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”
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Social Networks Have Always Battled HIV/AIDS
When Greg Owen saved thousands of lives with a Facebook post, he became part of the long history of social networks and gay activism.