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He writes a year after the suicide of Marcelle Cooks-Daniel. He comments that in addition to Marcelle having felt invisible, "He was very angry about the games and dynamics among the queer communities and within the trans communities."

Reverend Perry’s activism is well documented and has included positions on a number of boards of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organizations.

Dr. Alex Wilson shares the Cree concept of the genderless divine world creator.

Dr. Alex Wilson, a Cree, explains the indigenous concept of relationality, as depicted in this painting by the late Daphne Odjig that hangs in the Manitoba Museum.

The short film to Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song,” his best-selling single in the United Kingdom, earned Michael the Doris Day Music Award from the Humane Society’s Genesis Awards. The urgent need to address the issues facing the planet and all that…

We'wha was a member of the Zuni tribe. Among the Zuni, a "Two-spirit" person is called a Ihamana. This term is a commonly understood Zuni gender designation for those born male whose gender expression integrates the male/female binary. We'wha engaged…

Mrs. Anderson is known as the first black transgender person to fight for her right to marriage in court in 1945. She and her husband were convicted of fraud and sent to prison because they signed a marriage license to be legally married, and she…

Sylvia Rivera was one of the earliest and most influential transgender rights activists to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969. She was close friends with Marsha P. Johnson, and spent almost her entire life fighting for civil…

Double jeopardy means BIPOC trans people typically strive to survive in the outside world and the LGBTQ community. Not only must they expend their energies defending themselves from anti-trans forces external to their communities. But they also must…

The Jane Minor BIPOC Community Medicine Garden is a sanctuary for Black, Indigenous and People of Color to come together to connect with the Earth, the plants, the community, and with themselves.

Raised in an African American Baptist family, Harmon was eight when he received a call to the ministry. Declaring himself gay in 1994 was an act that began his life work of helping Black Churches welcome their LGBT members.

He required celibacy and held communion feasts instead of regular sermons.