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The legislative session in the North Carolina General Assembly will officially begin on Monday. Tell lawmakers it’s time to repeal HB 2!

The legislative session in the North Carolina General Assembly will officially begin on Monday. Tell lawmakers it’s time to repeal HB 2!

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We are #GLSENProud to support those rallying across North Carolina today in opposition to HB 2! This dangerous law has stripped LGBT people of protections, lost the state millions in business, and has targeted transgender people across the state. We...

We are #GLSENProud to support those rallying across North Carolina today in opposition to HB 2! This dangerous law has stripped LGBT people of protections, lost the state millions in business, and has targeted transgender people across the state. We urge the North Carolina General Assembly to hear protesters’ demands and #RepealHB2. Add your voice!

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Trans Student Writes Powerful Facebook Post To North Carolina Governor: “This Is What Trans Looks Like” HB 2 harms students and communities by making discrimination legal in North Carolina. We’re ‪#‎GLSENproud‬ of student activists like Adam...

Trans Student Writes Powerful Facebook Post To North Carolina Governor: “This Is What Trans Looks Like”

HB 2 harms students and communities by making discrimination legal in North Carolina. We’re ‪#‎GLSENproud‬ of student activists like Adam speaking out against this blatant discrimination in support of LGBT people; show your support for LGBT students when you register for GLSEN’s Day of Silence here: http://glsen.us/1Sr6tyD

I am tired of the stares, the murmured hate, the aggression when I dare to hold another man’s hand on the street.
I am tired of my racing heartbeat, the catch in my breath, the worst case scenarios I have to think of when I walk in a public bathroom.
I am tired of my state supporting hatred and bigotry.
I am tired.
But that doesn’t mean I will ever stop fighting.
This is what trans looks like, Gov. McCrory. I am trans, I am queer, I am a lover, a writer, an actor, and a singer. I am a person of faith and when I was formed from the dust of the earth, the same breath of life that filled your lungs also filled mine. Do not mistake your privilege for superiority. It will not serve you forever. But for now, at the risk of sounding crude, suck it, McCrory.
I am trans, and I am not going away. Deal with it.

H/T: BuzzFeed

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Not in the Name of My “Protection” “The North Carolina Republican Senatorial Committee launched a new fundraiser late last week. The fundraising site features an image of a man entering a woman’s bathroom and encourages donations to “thank NC...

Not in the Name of My “Protection”

The North Carolina Republican Senatorial Committee launched a new fundraiser late last week. The fundraising site features an image of a man entering a woman’s bathroom and encourages donations to “thank NC Governor Pat McCrory and Legislative Leaders for fighting to keep our children safe and passing a common-sense law to stop grown men from sharing locker rooms and bathrooms with young girls.”

I’ll pass, thanks. Painting pure bigotry as an attempt to “protect” women from the dangers of bathrooms is an old American story, and one we have a duty to reject.

H/T: HuffPo

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Discrimination Doesn’t Belong in Schools! Every student deserves schools that are safe, affirming, and free from discrimination - including students in North Carolina! If you have experienced discrimination in school, take action and file a complaint...

Discrimination Doesn’t Belong in Schools!

Every student deserves schools that are safe, affirming, and free from discrimination - including students in North Carolina! If you have experienced discrimination in school, take action and file a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education here.

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Pat McCrory finally concedes North Carolina race for governor

Gov. Pat McCrory announced Monday that he’s conceded the election to Democrat Roy Cooper, the state’s attorney general, and will support transition efforts.
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Nearly a month after the election, Gov. Pat McCrory has conceded his race for a second term to Roy Cooper, the next governor of North Carolina.

McCrory, you will remember, is the man who refused to repeal HB2, the anti-LGBT law that has threatened LGBT North Carolinians’ safety and cost North Carolina millions of dollars and many jobs. It’s come back to bite him.

With the concession, McCrory becomes the state’s first governor to lose a re-election bid since a constitutional amendment in the 1970s gave governors the ability to seek more than one four-year term. His defeat followed the nation’s second-costliest gubernatorial race and North Carolina’s most expensive ever. […]

McCrory’s concession came nearly a month after Election Day, following dozens of election complaints filed by Republicans with help from the governor’s campaign. The majority of them were dismissed by GOP-controlled county election boards.

McCrory referred to those concerns in his concession video, calling them “continued questions that should be answered regarding the voting process.” The governor called Saturday for a State Bureau of Investigation probe into absentee ballots in Bladen County, shortly after the State Board of Elections dismissed a protest calling for those ballots to be thrown out.

About damn time. Discrimination doesn’t pay; time for you to go. 

The New Language of Protest“ Just as the social turmoil of the 1960s generated new vocabulary — turn-on, sit-in, sexism — this latest wave of activism and upheaval is adding to our lexicon, with terms such as safe space, trigger warning,...

The New Language of Protest

Just as the social turmoil of the 1960s generated new vocabulary — turn-on, sit-in, sexism — this latest wave of activism and upheaval is adding to our lexicon, with terms such as safe space, trigger warning, microaggression and cultural appropriation, which we explore here. We asked student leaders and activists from local universities to define these terms for us and to elaborate based on their own thoughts and experiences.

H/T: The Washington Post

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Gender- Reveal Celebrations for Babies Can Be Cute. They Also Help Explain the Trans Bathroom Panic.“ It’s accepted among progressives at this point that gender is a kind of performance within constraints—something we actively create from the limited...

Gender- Reveal Celebrations for Babies Can Be Cute. They Also Help Explain the Trans Bathroom Panic.

It’s accepted among progressives at this point that gender is a kind of performance within constraints—something we actively create from the limited cultural materials we encounter. As such, it matters enormously for older children and adults as a way of making sense of themselves in (and for) the world. But it’s also a type of performance that babies and toddlers lack the neural connections to deliver—they are genderless, and thus destabilizing, and so we steady ourselves by, for instance, affixing hair bows on people who might not even have much hair.

A gender reveal will tell a future baby’s loved ones precisely nothing about what is actually important about her first months and years on Earth: her temperament, her response to food, the ease with which she sleeps and self-soothes and explores her expanding world. Babies and toddlers are mysterious; you really have no idea who they are, but you get the sense that they know you inside-out. A fetus is even more mysterious; you don’t even know what she looks like, and yet there she is, closer to you than any person could ever be. It’s understandable, I suppose, why some parents want to grab onto an either-or marker of certainty in the fundamentally uncertain situation that is pre- and early parenthood. But gender isn’t really there for the grabbing.

H/T: Slate

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Bathroom Bills Aren’t About Religious Freedom “ In order to believe transgender identities are somehow sinful, you would have toinvent scripture that just isn’t there. This would also require one to conflate gender and sex either lacking the...

Bathroom Bills Aren’t About Religious Freedom

In order to believe transgender identities are somehow sinful, you would have toinvent scripture that just isn’t there. This would also require one to conflate gender and sex either lacking the knowledge that they are not one in the same or just refusing to believe the medical community. You would also have to believe that sex is binary, while ignoring the biological reality of intersex individuals. You would need to also forget Jesus’ words of praise to the gender minorities in biblical times. Of course, this doesn’t even begin to cover how bathroom usage is somehow part of North Carolinians religious practices.

H/T: HuffPo

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Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ Resources

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Before we get on with the post, it’s important to note that these are two groups of diverse people who are very unique in many ways! However, in light of the month, (and mainly due to the fact that a lot of the resources available online are for both groups), here is a compilation of resources for Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ people! Other masterposts can be found here (and don’t hesitate to add anything if you have resources to contribute)!

GLSEN Pages:

Other organizations:

Historical information from the US National Park Service:

Some LGBTQ+ Asian/Pacific Islander Creators:

  • Jean Melesaine (queer, Sāmoan, artist, documentary photographer, and one of the founding members of One Love Oceania)
  • Ingrid Nilsen (half-Thai, lesbian, beauty vlogger and internet personality)
  • Kit Yan (trans/queer, Chinese-Hawaiian, playwright, poet, performer, and lyricist)
  • Chrysanthemum Tran (trans/queer, Vietnamese American poet, performer and teaching artist)
  • Chella Man (deaf, Jewish-Chinese, genderqueer, artist)
  • Patrick G. Lee (queer, Korean-American, journalist and filmmaker)
  • Pati Solomona Tyrell (queer, Sāmoan, artist/photographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau)

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